Partner
Boston, MA
Steve Gianelli has over 20 years of experience advising managers of mutual funds, private funds, institutional products, and hedge funds with a focus on strategic investment programs, derivative trading and capital markets legal and regulatory issues. He has significant experience working with portfolio management teams negotiating, structuring and executing complex derivative and capital markets trading agreements for equity, debt, credit, mortgages, and interest rate asset classes, with a focus on uncleared and cleared derivatives, prime brokerage, securities offerings, secured debt and warehouse borrowing facilities and securities regulatory matters. Steve also provides regulatory guidance on a wide array of SEC, CFTC, FINRA and NFA rule making and compliance obligations.
Steve’s many years of in-house experience working with portfolio management teams brings a unique business perspective to the challenges of investment managers and their regulated funds gaining both physical and synthetic access to U.S. and global trading markets, managing risks and negotiating trading relationships that provide investors with differentiated performance.
While not working with clients, you will find Steve spending time with his wife and family on Sebago Lake in Maine or involved with DIY projects.
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine – Michael Lewis
“Vertigo” by U2
Sedona, AZ
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If I weren’t a lawyer, I’d own a ranch.
Steve Gianelli has over 20 years of experience advising managers of mutual funds, private funds, institutional products, and hedge funds with a focus on strategic investment programs, derivative trading and capital markets legal and regulatory issues. He has significant experience working with portfolio management teams negotiating, structuring and executing complex derivative and capital markets trading agreements for equity, debt, credit, mortgages, and interest rate asset classes, with a focus on uncleared and cleared derivatives, prime brokerage, securities offerings, secured debt and warehouse borrowing facilities and securities regulatory matters. Steve also provides regulatory guidance on a wide array of SEC, CFTC, FINRA and NFA rule making and compliance obligations.
Steve’s many years of in-house experience working with portfolio management teams brings a unique business perspective to the challenges of investment managers and their regulated funds gaining both physical and synthetic access to U.S. and global trading markets, managing risks and negotiating trading relationships that provide investors with differentiated performance.
While not working with clients, you will find Steve spending time with his wife and family on Sebago Lake in Maine or involved with DIY projects.
Steve Gianelli practiced as an in-house lawyer for more than 18 years at Putnam Investments in a number of legal roles and most recently as Deputy General Counsel for the investment platform supporting fixed income, equity and derivatives capital markets. Steve has also acted as consulting counsel for other large institutional investment managers advising on equity capital markets, securitization and structured finance. Steve began his legal career as a corporate finance associate at Goodwin Procter LLP.
Derivatives and OTC Trading Agreements
Securities Offerings/Issuances
Secured Loans/Structured Finance
Equity Capital Markets/Private Equity
At Practus, we handle complex and challenging legal matters. I look forward to talking to you about how we can best meet your goals.
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