Ellen Pesch
ELLEN PESCH is co-leader of the OTC Derivatives industry group at Sidley. Ellen has more than 20 years of experience representing capital market participants with respect to structuring, negotiating and documenting derivatives and structured finance transactions. She has represented clients in a wide variety of derivatives transactions ranging from interest rates, currencies, commodities and credit to total return, inflation, weather, catastrophic and mortality/longevity transactions. Ellen also has significant experience with the various Dodd-Frank regulatory issues as they impact the derivatives market, as well as the regulatory issues associated with the intersection of the insurance and derivatives markets.
Practice Area
Panel
- Contributing Author
Experience
- Sidley Austin LLP (2000 - Present)
Qualifications
- Admitted Illinois (1989)
- Admitted New York (2012)
Education
- DePaul University College of law, LL.M (1991)
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, J.D. (1989)
- Barat College, B.A. (1986)
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PRACTICE NOTES
ISDA 2021 Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions: Lawyers’ Guide to Key Changes from 2006, Digital Matrices, Fallbacks, Overnight Compounding, Swaptions, Early Termination and Cash Settlement
On 11 June 2021, ISDA issued the 2021 ISDA Interest Rate Derivatives Definitions (the 2021 Definitions), intended to supersede the 2006 ISDA Definitions as the standard ISDA definitional text for cleared and non‑cleared interest rate derivatives. ISDA no longer maintains the 2006 ISDA Definitions. The 2021 Definitions were the first of what is expected to be many publications on ISDA’s new digital ‘online library’. Historically, ISDA’s definitional booklets were printed as hard‑copy booklets, with each change requiring a separate supplement (in the case of the 2006 ISDA Definitions, there were almost 100 by December 2022). Working through the booklets together with numerous standalone supplements was often a demanding exercise. With the new digital online library, ISDA will implement updates to the 2021 Definitions by releasing refreshed electronic versions, each bearing a publication date, which can be easily compared with any earlier iteration via the ISDA online library. By adopting this digital version approach, the 2021 Definitions should be significantly easier to read and apply as further updates are made. The 2021 Definitions include a number of key...
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