Michele Navazio

Michele (Miki) Navazio is a partner in the Finance Practice Group and co-chair of the Derivatives Practice Group in Haynes Boone’s New York office. Miki represents hedge funds, asset managers, private equity firms, mutual funds, institutional investors and corporate end-users in derivatives, structured products and repo transactions. He structures, documents and negotiates over-the-counter derivatives and related trading arrangements, including credit default swaps and total return swaps used to obtain synthetic or leveraged exposure to a wide range of underlying assets.

Miki advises buy-side clients in connection with derivatives transactions and trading matters, including regulations that affect the derivatives markets. His work includes helping clients structure and negotiate complex trading arrangements, address derivatives regulatory requirements, manage liquidity and margin obligations through tools such as margin lockups, and assess counterparty credit risk, including through triparty swap margin segregation arrangements. Miki’s derivatives and finance experience spans structured credit and asset repack transactions, CDS, total return swaps across loan, bond and equity underliers, variance swaps, exotic OTC options, interest rate, FX and commodity derivatives, ISDA master agreements and collateral arrangements, tri-party custody arrangements, prime brokerage, futures and swap clearing agreements, derivatives/PB intermediation, repurchase agreements, ABS forward transaction agreements, securities lending agreements and master confirmations.