If an explanation of complex financial products and transactions has ever left you feeling more confused than you were before, contact Evan Koster, the Head of our Derivatives Practice and a member of Capital Markets and Securities Practice.
Evan demystifies the products and their legal Implications – in both English and Spanish – and represents clients in a broad spectrum of derivatives, commodities, and structured products in the United States and emerging markets.
Evan's experience is both broad – including all asset classes, such as commodities, fixed income, foreign exchange, and equities – and narrow, including energy derivatives (e.g., natural gas, oil, power) and energy trading. In addition to his transactional work, he counsels clients regarding Dodd- Frank and Commodities Exchange derivatives regulatory and compliance issues.
Not content with having just one area of focus, Evan also focuses on sovereign finance (new issuances and restructurings) and in addition represents financial institutions, and corporate borrowers in emerging market debt capital markets (Rule 144A and Regulation S offerings), especially sovereign and energy- related transactions, in both primary offerings and liability management exercises. He has represented clients in recent leading sovereign debt restructurings, including in the Ghana and Sri Lanka sovereign debt restructurings in 2024 and the Ecuador restructuring in 2020.
He has extensive experience in finance and capital market matters in Latin America and is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Portuguese.
Evan Koster has co-authored insightful analyses on sovereign debt restructuring, focusing on challenges and strategies in distressed economies. His work includes Sovereign Debt Restructuring in Africa (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals, December 2023) and Sovereign Debt Restructuring in Times of Stress: Lessons from Ecuador and Argentina (Global Restructuring Review, September 2020). Through these publications, he provides valuable perspectives on sovereign debt resolution frameworks and sovereign financial recovery in emerging markets.