Dominic Atwell-Harris

Dominic Atwell-Harris is an associate in the London office of Latham & Watkins and is a member of the firm’s Corporate Department, Financial Institutions Group, and the Capital Markets, Derivatives, and Structured Finance Practices.

Dominic has extensive transactional and advisory experience advising buy-side and sell-side clients on derivatives-based hedging, acquisition, and financing strategies, with a focus on strategic equity derivatives and structured equity financing, including in respect of:

• Accelerated stake-build transactions as well as funded and unfunded collars
• Variable prepaid forwards 
• Total return swaps and construction of synthetic long and short positions
• Monetisation of existing stakes
• Strategic disposals
• Securities borrowing and lending (SBL) transactions
• Shari’ah-compliant derivatives and SBL transactions
• Margin loans over listed and unlisted shares
• Share buy-back transactions

Prior to joining the firm, Dominic spent time as a senior associate at a Magic Circle firm in London, as well as practicing in Australia’s leading derivatives law firm.

Dominic has also spent time on secondment with a US investment bank’s Strategic Equity Solutions desk and pairs technical expertise with an inside perspective on banks’ approaches to strategic equity.