Biography
Michele (Miki) Navazio is a partner in the Finance Practice Group and co-chair of the Derivatives Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office.
Miki focuses on representation of hedge funds and asset managers, as well as private equity firms, mutual funds, institutional investors and corporate end-users in a broad range of complex transactions. His practice revolves around structuring, documenting and negotiating an array of over-the-counter derivative instruments, structured products and repo facilities. These include complex derivatives such as credit default swaps and total return swaps that provide synthetic or leveraged exposure to underlying assets of all types.
Miki advises buy-side clients in connection with derivatives transactions and trading matters, including regulations that affect the derivatives markets. His clients include many of the world’s largest hedge funds and asset managers, as well as private equity firms, funds of funds, mutual funds and corporate end-users. Miki routinely assists clients in structuring and negotiating complex derivatives transactions, developing strategies to comply with regulation, managing liquidity and margin obligations (using tools like margin lockups), as well as managing counterparty credit risk (for example, via triparty swap margin segregation arrangements). His experience includes structured credit and asset repack transactions (repo and swap), CDS, total return swaps (including loan, bond and equity TRS), variance swaps, exotic OTC options (curve trades, caps, collars, etc.), interest rate, FX and commodity derivatives, ISDA master agreements and collateral arrangements, tri-party custody arrangements, prime brokerage, futures and swap clearing agreements, derivatives/PB intermediation, margin lockup agreements, repurchase agreements, ABS forward transaction agreements and securities lending agreements, and master confirmations.
Michele (Miki) Navazio is a partner in the Finance Practice Group and co-chair of the Derivatives Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office.
Miki focuses on representation of hedge funds and asset managers, as well as private equity firms, mutual funds, institutional investors and corporate end-users in a broad range of complex transactions. His practice revolves around structuring, documenting and negotiating an array of over-the-counter derivative instruments, structured products and repo facilities. These include complex derivatives such as credit default swaps and total return swaps that provide synthetic or leveraged exposure to underlying assets of all types.
Miki advises buy-side clients in connection with derivatives transactions and trading matters, including regulations that affect the derivatives markets. His clients include many of the world’s largest hedge funds and asset managers, as well as private equity firms, funds of funds, mutual funds and corporate end-users. Miki routinely assists clients in structuring and negotiating complex derivatives transactions, developing strategies to comply with regulation, managing liquidity and margin obligations (using tools like margin lockups), as well as managing counterparty credit risk (for example, via triparty swap margin segregation arrangements). His experience includes structured credit and asset repack transactions (repo and swap), CDS, total return swaps (including loan, bond and equity TRS), variance swaps, exotic OTC options (curve trades, caps, collars, etc.), interest rate, FX and commodity derivatives, ISDA master agreements and collateral arrangements, tri-party custody arrangements, prime brokerage, futures and swap clearing agreements, derivatives/PB intermediation, margin lockup agreements, repurchase agreements, ABS forward transaction agreements and securities lending agreements, and master confirmations.
Education
J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2003
B.A., Music, Wesleyan University, 1982
Admissions
New York
