Haynes and Boone, LLP is thrilled to welcome Partner Ed Ivey to the firm’s Finance Group. Ivey joins from Moore & Van Allen PLLC, where he was the Head of the Swaps & Derivatives Practice.
Ivey’s practice handles regulatory and transactional matters across the futures, swaps and derivatives industry, advising clients on various types of debt and equity capital market activities for financial institutions ranging from Wall Street banks to community banks in North Carolina. Ivey also has experience working for two major Wall Street banks, focusing on derivatives, structured transactions, structured products, commodities, digital assets, hedge funds and Dodd-Frank regulatory issues related to these areas.
The Carolina native also represents several swap dealers, traders and liquidity providers in the digital and crypto assets markets and advised one of the earliest dealers in crypto derivatives on various regulatory compliance and registration matters. In this role, he also has experience in the Prime Broker markets across the US and Non-US, and drafted one of the first suites of Prime Broker Documentation for use in the digital assets space.
"Haynes Boone’s Chambers-ranked practices overlap perfectly with what my clients need, providing some of the absolute best talent and resources for swaps, derivatives, commodities and digital assets for both transactional and regulatory matters,” Ivey said. “The firm has a great reputation for collaboration across partners and senior attorneys, translating that to provide clients the best work product from the firm’s best lawyers. I am extremely excited to be adding to this platform.”
The Haynes Boone Finance Practice Group develops innovative and sophisticated financing solutions tailored to each client's risk tolerance and business strategy. The team has extensive experience in a wide range of financing transactions, including asset-based lending, senior bank debt, capital commitment subscription financings, project finance, energy finance, public finance and more. The firm's finance lawyers represent a diverse client base, from top global commercial lending institutions to private equity funds and regional banks, ensuring a pragmatic approach that prioritizes achieving clients' objectives.
Ivey will help expand Haynes Boone’s growing Derivatives and Digital Assets teams, which handle a wide variety of matters involving derivatives, hedging, structured products, commodities, fintech, digital assets and other alternative investments, as well as margin lending, equity-linked products, prime brokerage, repos, securities lending, synthetic risk transfer, global credit risk management and custody and collateral-related matters on behalf of banks, swap dealers, buy-side investment funds, pensions, sovereign wealth funds, corporate end users, crypto-native platforms and other market participants.
“We are extremely excited to welcome Ed to the firm,” said Todd Cubbage, co-chair of the Finance Practice Group. “His extensive knowledge of the swaps and derivatives space, along with his other areas of knowledge, will serve as an invaluable addition for our clients across the firm.”
The firm’s Charlotte office opened in 2019 with three lawyers and has grown to 25 five years later. The firm recently moved to a new, state-of-the-art office to accommodate the rapid growth in headcount, which includes the addition of Chelsea Corey as the firm’s first litigator in Charlotte earlier this month.
