Minter Ellison has an experienced team of derivatives lawyers who regularly act on a range of derivative products including equity, credit default, commodity and total return swaps, equity options, synthetic, CDOs and other synthetic structures.

Our team has extensive expertise in derivatives transactions, drawn from experience in the major international markets. We have acted for major funds managers, financial institutions, corporates, security trustees, issuers and investors.

We are continually active on a wide range of derivatives-based transactions. Some of our indicative transactions include:

• equity total return swaps to synthetically acquire exposure to investment portfolios 
• equity options to synthetically acquire exposure to investment portfolios 
• synthetic CDO transactions referencing US, European and Australian debt 
• total return swaps referenced to commodities.