Mark Nicolaides retired from the partnership in June 2018. He specialized in structured finance. His experience has encompassed a broad range of transaction types and asset classes, both cash and synthetic, involving iPhone operating leases and residual values, supplier financing, longevity risk, IP royalty streams, insurance receivables, multi-country trade receivables, and other loan and lease receivables, among others. He has been commended or highly commended in four of the past eight years by the Financial Times in its Innovative Lawyer Awards (ILA):
- Securitizing iPhone leases and residual values (FT ILA 2016)
- Punch Taverns WBS restructuring (FT ILA 2015)
- Advising banks on regulatory capital rules (FT ILA 2010)
- Pensions : First longevity securitisation (FT ILA 2008)
In recognition of his “numerous firsts in the finance industry,” in 2016 the Financial Times recognized Mr. Nicolaides as a Top 10 Innovative Individual thanks to his “deep knowledge of capital markets” and “ability to grasp the dynamics of rules governing them."
In addition to his transactional practice, Mr. Nicolaides was considered one of the leading experts in the Basel II Regulatory Capital Accord and the Basel III modifications to that Accord, and has worked closely with clients and regulatory bodies in connection with the development and adoption of Basel II and Basel III within the EU. In that regard, Mr. Nicolaides is the author of "Regulatory Capital Requirements for European Banks–Implications of Changing Markets and a New Regulatory Environment."