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Aaron Palmer Partner | Toronto, Vancouver [email protected] Toronto: 416-863-4227 Vancouver: 604-631-3301 Aaron's practice focuses on derivatives, securities law, structured financial transactions and financial services. He has been a partner at Blakes since 2009. Aaron has worked on a broad range of financings and securities transactions, public and private offerings, and securities regulatory matters. He also has extensive experience with the development of innovative investment products and with derivatives-based transactions involving equity, credit, commodity, interest rate and FX derivatives. His derivatives experience includes a five-month secondment to the law department of a major Canadian bank advising on equity derivatives transactions. He is currently actively engaged in advising market participants on Canadian derivatives regulatory developments related to trade reporting, dealer registration and mandatory clearing. Aaron also has extensive experience with derivatives clearing, prime brokerage, investment fund regulation, securities lending and repo transactions, securitizations, and traditional banking and capital markets transactions. From 2004 to 2006, he worked in the Firm's London office where he worked on a broad range of international financial transactions, Eurobond programs, and M&A transactions. Recent firm bulletins Aaron has written are available at the "Publications" tab above. SELECT EXPERIENCE Derivatives counsel to numerous market-leading banks, dealers, investment funds and multi-national corporations Frequent transactional advice involving ISDA documentation, clearing, collateral and security, total return swaps and forwards, synthetic financing transactions and interest rate swap negotiations for borrowers and lenders on large syndicated lending transactions Securities and derivatives regulatory counsel to issuers, dealers, exchanges, clearing houses and alternative trading systems Advising clearing houses, exchanges and trading platforms on regulatory and contractual matters Counsel for numerous widely offered and publicly offered domestic and cross-border note and bond offerings and securitization transactions Advising a lead investor on the restructuring of Canada's C$32-billion non-bank-sponsored assetbacked commercial paper (ABCP) market and the underlying CDO and securitization transactions AWARDS & RECOGNITION Aaron is recognized as one of Canada's leading derivatives lawyers in the following publications: The Best Lawyers in Canada (since 2010) The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (since 2012) PUBLICATIONS Author: Canadian Regulators Finalize Customer Protection Rules for Cleared OTC Derivatives Blakes Bulletin on Structured Finance and Derivatives, March 3, 2017. Co-author: Canadian Regulators Finalize Mandatory OTC Derivatives Clearing Rules Blakes Bulletin on Structured Finance & Derivatives, January 26, 2017. Co-author: Thinking at the Margin: Canadian Provincial Regulators Issue Margin Proposals for Non-Cleared Derivatives Blakes Whitepaper on Capital Markets, Financial Services Regulatory, and Structured Finance & Derivatives, August 15, 2016. Co-author: Canadian Derivatives Trade Reporting Amendments Impact Dealers and End-Users Blakes Bulletin on Financial Services Regulatory, and Structures Finance & Derivatives, May 18, 2016. Co-author: Margin Requirements for Non-Centrally Cleared Derivatives Issued in Canada Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, Structured Finance & Derivatives, March 22, 2016. Co-author: Mandatory OTC Derivatives Clearing Rules Published for Second Round of Comments Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, Financial Services Regulatory, Structured Finance & Derivatives, February 29, 2016. Co-author: Proposed Changes to Quebec Derivatives Regulation Will Impact Dealers, Advisers and Hedgers Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, Financial Services Regulatory, and Structured Finance & Derivatives, February 5, 2016. Co-author: Derivatives Trade Reporting Rules Introduced in Remaining Canadian Jurisdictions Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, Financial Services Regulatory, and Structured Finance & Derivatives, January 28, 2016. Co-author: Draft Derivatives Laws Issued for the Canadian Cooperative System Harmonize Divergent Provincial Approaches Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, October 27, 2015. Co-author: Quebec Blanket Decision Affording Relief for Certain Derivatives Activities to be Revoked in June 2016 Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, September 2015. Co-author: Update - Canadian OTC Derivatives Rules - Q2 Blakes Update on Capital Markets, August 2015. Co-author: Update - Canadian OTC Derivatives Rules Blakes Update on Capital Markets, April 2015. Co-author: Derivatives End-Users Granted Interim Relief from Trade Reporting Obligations for Inter-Affiliate Transactions Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, June 2015. Co-author: Comment Letters on Proposed Federal Systemic Risk Legislation Raise Significant Concerns Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, May 2015. Co-author: OTC Derivatives Trading and Clearing Rules Move Closer to Implementation Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, February 2015 Co-author: A War Measures Act for Canada's Financial System: Regulation of Systemic Risk by Cooperative Capital Markets Regulator Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, December 2014. Co-author: Regulation of Derivatives Trading Under the Proposed Canadian Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System Blakes Bulletin on Capital Markets, November 2014. PROFESSIONAL APPEARANCES Speaker: Overview of Canadian Derivatives Laws - Meeting your OTC Derivatives Compliance Obligations in Canada Over-the-Counter Derivatives Reform in Canada, Infonex, Toronto, Ontario, April 4, 2017. Speaker: The Implementation and Impact of Regulatory Margin Rules for Uncleared Derivatives Over-the-Counter Derivatives Reform in Canada, Infonex, Toronto, Ontario, April 4, 2017. Chair: Over-the-Counter Derivatives Reform in Canada Infonex, Toronto, Ontario, April 4, 2017. Speaker: Impact of the Cooperative Capital Markets Regulatory System on Derivatives Trading Over-the-Counter Derivatives Reform in Canada, Infonex, Toronto, Ontario, March 23, 2016. Speaker: Canadian Regulatory Update ISDA 2015 Canadian Regulatory Issues and Updates Conference, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Toronto, Ontario, October 6, 2015. Speaker: Developments in the Regulation of Canadian Derivatives Markets Capital Markets Regulatory Priorities Conference, The Canadian Institute, Toronto, Ontario, January 29, 2015. EDUCATION Admitted to the British Columbia Bar - 2013 Admitted to the Ontario Bar - 2002 LL.B., University of Toronto - 2000 M.A., McGill University - 1996 B.Math (Hon.), University of Waterloo - 1988