Extensive cross-border experience, covering the full range of asset classes in the derivatives space, with a particular focus on longevity, securitisation structures and finance-linked derivatives.

Third consecutive female partner hire in the firm's Financial Markets and Products (FMP) practice in the last 12 months.

European law firm Fieldfisher has announced the appointment of Shanthi Vignasen as a partner in its Derivatives Group in London. Her addition will greatly augment the bench strength of the market-leading and growing derivatives team that advises clients on both sides of the market - from global investment banks, through smaller regional banks and broker/dealers to hedge funds and traditional asset managers. With a very diverse over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives practice, focusing on transactional work, Shanthi will offer expert counsel on longevity, FX, rates, commodities, and equity derivatives, in addition to repos, stock lending and derivative related aspects of loan finance and securitisation transactions.

Admitted in 2009, Shanthi trained at Allen & Overy LLP (A&O) and has spent her career to date at A&O (now A&O Shearman). She has worked in the Derivatives and Structured Finance (DSF) practice in London and New York, and has spent time on secondment at a number of global financial institutions on both sides of the Atlantic. Shanthi was named as a Rising Star (Europe, Middle East and Africa) Structured Finance and Securitisation in 2022,  Euromoney Rising Star (United Kingdom) in 2021 and IFLR Rising Star (Europe): Structured Finance and Securitisation in 2020.

Since her qualification in 2009, Shanthi has invested a considerable amount of time training, nurturing and mentoring trainees and associates - many of whom are now clients. She had also spearheaded several diversity and inclusion initiatives in relation to race and ethnicity. Shanthi's appointment is the third consecutive female partner hire in the firm's Financial Markets and Products (FMP) Group in the last 12 months after Emma Dwyer (also formerly with A&O) and Laetitia Costa. Half of the firm's partner promotions last year were women.

This news story was originally published on the firm’s website.