Vinay Samani

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vinay.samani@linklaters.com

Practice Areas

Vinay is a senior capital markets partner with over 20 years’ experience of advising on debt, equity and structured finance transactions. His clients include financial institutions and corporates, and his broad experience allows him to provide innovative solutions to financing and investment issues across the spectrum of asset classes, including equities, funds, credit and commodities.

Vinay is a member of the firm’s global commodities group and until recently, was head of the firm’s derivatives and structured products team in London.

Vinay has extensive experience across both OTC and securitised derivatives and over the years has driven forward the use of structured finance techniques in capital markets transactions, from regulatory capital issuance through to large exchange-traded product platforms and emerging market loan syndication through SPVs.

Vinay was responsible for the initial regulatory capital instruments issued by numerous banks in the early 2000s and some of the early SPV-based structured finance transactions in the Middle East and Singapore.