Will Liu
Partner, New York
Overview
Professional experience
Education and qualifications
Overview
Will is a capital markets partner in Linklaters' New York office. Will’s practice focuses on transactional and advisory matters related to derivatives. Will represents both buy and sell-side institutions in connection with the development, structuring, negotiation and documentation of a wide variety of financial products. These products include deal-contingent swaps, loan total return swaps, swap intermediations, interest rate swaps, currency swaps, and other funded and unfunded products. Will has been representing ISDA dealers and buy-side participants in connection with the implementation of margin regulation compliant documentation for uncleared derivatives.
Work Highlights
Notable matters in which Will has been involved include:
- representing several dealers in connection with the implementation of margin regulation compliant documentation for uncleared derivatives
- representing a dealer in connection with a combination of FX forward and time-staggered interest rate swap transactions exceeding USD 2 billion notional with bespoke features that provided the end-user with a USD/CAD cross-currency basis swap to synthetically convert USD liabilities to CAD liabilities relating to a merger
- representing a dealer in connection with a secured deal-contingent interest rate swap exceeding USD 10 billion notional relating to a project financing with syndication rebate and post-syndication valuation adjustment features
- representing a dealer in connection with the negotiation and documentation of cross-currency swaps relating to such dealer’s USD/JPY repackaging securities program
- representing a hedge fund in connection with the negotiation and documentation of a negative correlation trade package