Christian Pugaczewski, a structured finance attorney with nearly two decades of experience developing financial products and documenting derivative transactions, including hedging contracts for securitizations and energy project finance, joined Hunton Andrews Kurth as a partner in New York.
Pugaczewski counsels hedge fund and broker-dealer clients in the development and structuring of new financial products and the documentation of OTC derivative transactions, including equity, credit, fixed income, commodity and currency derivatives, variable prepaid forwards, accelerated share buy-backs, capped calls related to convertible bond offerings, heat rate call options, synthetic CDOs and prime brokerage products.
“Christian is well respected within the financial services sector for his thoughtful approach and inventive strategies. He brings skills and experience that complement our growing emerging assets structured products practice and our renewable and traditional energy finance practices,” Tom Hiner, co-head of Hunton Andrews Kurth’s structured finance and securitization practice, said. “He brings additional depth to our growing, nationally recognized structured finance practice, which continues to expand its scope.”
Pugaczewski’s practice includes providing regulatory compliance solutions, including by way of bilateral agreements and through International Swaps and Derivatives Association protocols. He has experience helping clients navigate rules and regulations promulgated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the National Futures Association, including the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Commodity Exchange Act, the Securities Act and the Exchange Act.
Pugaczewski joined Hunton Andrews Kurth from Shearman & Sterling, where he was a member of the firm’s derivatives and structured products practice. He was also previously an attorney with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; an associate director with Morgan Stanley; and a vice president at Pershing, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon, where his practice focused on OTC derivatives and prime brokerage.
