Ken Kopelman provides cross-product legal advice and solutions to banks, broker-dealers, hedge funds and other financial institutions. His practice covers a range of financial products and services.
Ken focuses his practice on over-the-counter derivatives and the application of derivatives in trading, structured products and capital markets. He has practiced in the derivatives area for over 20 years, and his subject matter knowledge covers equity derivatives, credit derivatives and structured products. Ken advises on multiple aspects of derivatives, such as documentation matters, close-outs, insolvency issues, regulatory issues, product structuring and new product development.
Ken’s practice is also focused on securities trading and broker-dealer and securities regulation. He works with and understands trading businesses and the regulatory and legal framework in which they operate. He advises clients in responding to trading questions, handling difficult regulatory and counterparty issues, establishing compliance programs, reviewing internal processes, and developing new products. Ken has advised on legal and regulatory matters for a full range of product areas, including prime brokerage; mortgages; convertibles; high-grade, high-yield and distressed debt; municipals; energy; and structured products.
Ken's transactional practice includes financing of various assets through repos, lending arrangements, derivatives and other structured solutions. He also represents financial institutions in strategic acquisitions and investments in financial assets and companies.
Prior to joining Bingham, Ken was a senior managing director and the head of the Fixed Income and Derivatives Legal Groups at Bear Stearns, where he managed legal and regulatory aspects of the trading, markets and derivatives businesses. Ken had been with Bear Stearns since 1993.
- Co-author, “Is Contractual Triangular Setoff Permitted Under the Bankruptcy Code for Derivative Transactions?,” Bingham.com (Feb. 3, 2009)
- Co-author, “Proposals for Regulation of the CDS Market: The New York State Insurance Department Weighs In,” Bingham.com (Oct. 3, 2008)
- What You Need to Know About the U.S. Financial Reform, Boston, Mass. and New York, N.Y. (2010)
- Speaker, Developments in OTC Derivatives, Futures Industry Association, Legal & Compliance Division Conference on the Regulation of Futures: Derivatives and OTC Products, National Harbor, Md. (May 13-15, 2009)
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- Editor, The Brooklyn Law Review
- Admitted to practice in New York
- Brooklyn Law School, Juris Doctor, cum laude (1984)
- Binghamton University, Bachelor of Arts (1978)