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Azam
H.
Aziz
Partner
Education
Hofstra University School of Law, J.D., 1996,
Hofstra Law Review, Managing Editor, 1995-1996
State University of New York at Stony Brook, B.E., 1992
Practice
Azam H. Aziz is the Practice Group Leader of the Asset Management Group and co-chair of the firm’s Associate Development Committee. Mr. Aziz’s practice focuses on the structuring and documentation of complex over-the-counter derivatives products for banks, collective investment vehicles and other financial market participants. His practice also includes counseling alternative asset managers regarding regulatory developments, risk management, and hedge fund formation and organization. He has extensive experience developing, drafting and negotiating highly structured trading relationships for a wide variety of products, including fixed income and credit derivatives, total returns swaps, equity derivatives, fund-linked products, securities lending and repurchase agreements as well as prime brokerage, debt and claims trading and other cash and synthetic trading documentation. He also has experience advising a range of market participants during significant market disruptions and counterparty failures, including during the failures of Long-Term Capital Management, Enron, Refco, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers.
Experience
- Galleon Management, L.P. during its wind down
- Numerous banks, hedge funds and other market participants in claims against Lehman Brothers
- Morgan Stanley during the failure of Bear Stearns
- The mandated-lead arranges in their capacity as hedge providers to the GNL Quintero project financing
- Citigroup in its acquisition of Old Lane Partners
- Morgan Stanley in numerous deal-contingent structured hedging arrangement
- Morgan Stanley as a liquidity provider in the issuance by JetBlue and Continental of enhanced equipment trust certificates (EETCs)
- Permal Asset Management in its sale to Legg Mason
- A hedge fund manager in the private placement of unsecured notes
- A U.S. investment bank in a $500 million structured and committed repurchase agreement facility for a hedge fund
- A hedge fund in a $1 billion structured credit facility secured by prime brokerage assets
Bar Admissions/Qualifications
New York
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