Complimentary Derivatives Primer Webshop

What is a Webshop? — Information at Your Fingertips

You can participate in each concise session live online as it happens – right from your office, home or mobile device – with the ability to pose questions in real time. You will also get access to the recorded videos which you can listen to or view at your convenience.


Pre-Forum Webshop
November 22, 2013


Derivatives Primer: An Intensive course to help you leverage the advanced forum content

Christopher J. Fowles
Partner
Torys LLP

Discussing key derivatives terms and concepts with an overview of the new regulatory landscape. This intensive and concise primer is designed to provide you with a good grasp of the basics, to establish a structure upon which the increasing and intricate layers of derivatives compliance obligations fit.

Christopher Fowles’ practice focuses on corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on derivatives, structured credit and corporate finance. As a member of Torys’ Derivatives Group, he participates in the negotiation, structuring and documentation of derivatives and derivatives-based products for managed assets, structured finance, lending and other transactions.

  • Derivatives review: types of derivatives, key uses, main risks
  • The 2007-2008 financial crisis: causes, effects, responses and the role of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives
  • Regulation then and now: the changing landscape of derivatives regulation

Register for this complimentary Derivatives Primer Webshop as part of your Main Conference registration – valued at $595.