Matthew Howes

Matthew Howes is an associate in the Finance Practice Group in the New York office of Haynes Boone. Matthew advises borrowers and lenders in a variety of commercial and corporate finance transactions, including margin lending, cash and synthetic prime brokerage, securities lending and repurchase, structured equity financing, net asset value and hybrid fund finance facilities, cryptocurrency custody, sales and lending, and various regulatory matters.

Matthew also supports derivatives trading desks at various global systemically important financial institutions, investment funds and corporate end users in negotiating documentation for equity and index swap and option transactions, credit default swap transactions, cryptocurrency/digital asset-linked derivatives and proprietary indices.

Matthew advises investment funds, banks, sovereign wealth funds and other financial institutions, institutional investors and corporate end users in onboarding for regulatory and house margin arrangements in connection with non-centrally cleared swaps, security-based swaps and MSFTA/TBA transactions, including advice on regulatory requirements and exemptions and negotiation of relevant credit support annexes and triparty account control agreements.

Matthew’s prior experience includes work in-house at international investment banking institutions, advising on structured products, derivative transactions and various regulatory matters.