David Toole

David is a structured capital markets specialist covering a range of securitised and OTC derivatives and structured finance transactions. He has a particular focus on risk sharing and synthetic securitisation transactions structured as credit derivatives, financial guarantees and credit insurance contracts and acts for a wide range of arrangers, originators and investors in these products, including public sector institutions. He also has extensive experience of credit, equity and fund-linked products. He was described in Legal 500 as a “rising star” and identified as a “Next Generation Lawyer” for derivatives and structured products. He was recommended for his synthetic securitisation work. David also acts for government and multilateral financial institutions on their risk sharing and guarantee schemes including as counsel to the British Business Bank on the UK Government’s COVID-19 guarantee schemes and to the European Investment Fund on its pan-European guarantee schemes, including the European Guarantee Fund.