Tamika Bent is a partner in the firm’s Asset Management and Investment Funds practice. She is a seasoned derivatives lawyer with extensive transactional and financial regulatory experience, including as in-house counsel at an investment bank and Chief Counsel to a Commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Tamika provides clients with practical solutions to their most sophisticated and complex legal issues. She represents funds, commercial end-users, banks, broker-dealers, swap dealers, security-based swap dealers, futures commission merchants, and trade associations.
In her transactional practice, Tamika structures and negotiates a broad range of agreements and transactions, including:
- ISDA Master Agreements and collateral documentation, MRAs, MSLAs, and other industry-standard trading agreements and clearing documentation for cleared and uncleared swaps, repurchase transactions, and securities lending transactions.
- Loan-linked and deal-contingent hedges in connection with financing agreements and mergers and acquisitions.
- Structured transactions, such as total return swaps and repurchase facilities.
She helps clients navigate the complexities of the US regulatory environment by providing:
- Transaction-adjacent advice in connection with derivatives transactions, including Dodd-Frank compliance and related documentation considerations.
- Litigation support in connection with swap dealer examination and investigation.
- Compliance counsel in connection with high-stakes matters involving CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) derivatives regulations.
Tamika also advises clients on emerging products and evolving areas of financial markets, including:
- Digital asset transactions and trading arrangements within existing derivatives and commodities frameworks.
- Perpetual derivatives and related market structure considerations, including designated contract market registration.
- Prediction markets and related regulatory developments, drawing on her prior experience as a regulator.
