Boot, Jeannette K.

Year Joined Organization: 2006

Lawyer Overview

Jeannette Boot is a partner in the firm's Corporate and Transactional and Securities Departments, and a member of the Corporate, Investment Management and Derivatives and Futures Practice Groups. She joined the firm in 2006. Ms. Boot's practice focuses on advising and representing institutional and entrepreneurial clients in derivatives transactions and trading agreements. She works closely with the firm's tax, ERISA and bankruptcy teams with respect to these issues.

Practice

Ms. Boot represents hedge funds, other institutional investors and corporate clients in the negotiation of various agreements with counterparties, including prime brokerage, term commitment, ISDA, repurchase and stock loan master agreements, and transaction documentation with respect to various equity, credit, fixed income and hedge fund-linked derivatives products. She also provides regulatory counsel to dealers and hedge funds on various federal and state securities and commodities laws related to derivatives transactions and trading arrangements.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Boot served as general counsel for Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, an institutional asset manager, where she was primarily responsible for trading advice and transaction documentation. Before her work with Och-Ziff, Ms. Boot was counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, where she worked in the Equity Derivatives and Financial Institutions Groups. There, her practice focused on a wide range of derivatives, structured products and trading-related matters, and included representation of many of the world's largest financial institutions and hedge fund managers.

Honors and Awards

• Recipient of WilmerHale's "2008 Mentor of the Year Award" in recognition of her generosity and effectiveness in helping associates develop and grow professionally

Areas of Practice

• Corporate
• Financial Services
• Securities
• Corporate and Transactional
• Investment Management
• Derivatives and Futures

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Joint Ventures, Public Finance, Securities Law, Securities Regulation, Transactions, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• New York

Education

• Harvard Law School, 1995
  JD
  Honors: cum laude
• University of California, Berkeley, 1991
  BA, Slavic Languages and Literatures
  Honors: with highest honors

Published Works

• The SEC and CFTC Issue Joint Rules Defining Swap Dealers and Major Swap Participants, 2010
• We're Almost There! Financial Reform Almost Final as Attention Turns to Rulemaking, 2010
• Outer Bounds of Safe Harbors: Lehman-Swedbank Decision Limits Setoff Rights Under Swap Agreements, 2010
• Recent Lehman Decision Raises Questions About Application of Safe Harbors to Complex Financial Products, 2010
• Brave New World for OTC Derivatives: Treasury Proposes Major Overhaul, 2009
• New York State and the SEC call for Urgent Regulation of Credit Default Swaps, 2008
• District Court Finds Hedge Funds' Use of Cash-Settled Total Return Swaps Constitutes Scheme to Evade Section 13(d) Reporting Requirements, 2008
• PWG Hedge Fund Committees Announce Best Practices, 2008
• Hedge Fund Oversight: Key Action Items for Hedge Funds, Broker-Dealers and Other Market Professionals, 2007
• Who is the Big Bad Wolf? – Regulation of US Hedge Funds After the Market Crisis of 1998, 1999
• Credit Derivatives: New Financial Instruments with New Uncertainties (Parts I and II), 1999

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