Stuart B. Armstrong

Stuart’s practice is dedicated to transactional and regulatory matters related to swaps and derivatives and physical commodities trading and hedging and structured finance transactions including commodity finance.

He represents clients in secured lending and complex finance structures involving precious metals, base metals and energy assets. His practice also extends to representing banks and other energy hedge providers in syndicated lending, acquisition-based and securitization hedging transactions.

He represents clients in commodity finance transactions including leases, repurchase transactions, consignments, intermediations, supply and offtake transactions and other forms of commodity financing.

Stuart has represented clients in transactional and regulatory matters across fixed income, commodities and capital markets products in domestic and international markets.

Before joining the private sector, Stuart served as Special Counsel at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission where he drafted and advised on the implementation and enforcement of regulations under the Dodd-Frank Act.

Representative Experience

Stuart’s experience includes the following representations:

• Precious metals dealer in a secured credit facility
• Precious metals wholesaler in respect of a precious metals repurchase facility
• Financial institution as a secured commodity hedge provider in connection with a private issuer’s proved developed and producing asset-backed securitization collateralized by producing oil and gas assets in Oklahoma
• Private fund in respect of establishing documentation for financial and physical precious metals trading
• Financial institution in interest rate deal contingent hedge transactions

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