Sean Bruns

Counsel Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

London +44 (20) 74445676

Sean Bruns

Sean Bruns is a derivatives and structured finance lawyer based in our London office.

Sean has experience of a broad range of capital market transactions, with a particular focus on OTC derivatives, structured products and structured finance transactions and works on some of the most innovative and complex transactions in the sector.

Sean advises global investment banks, retail banks, service providers and asset management firms on derivatives, repos and stock lending, repackaging transactions, CLOs, derivative-linked debt securities, structured products, hedging and funding transactions.

Sean is described by clients in Legal 500 as “talented and hardworking” with “great client skills” and “a confident grasp of even the most complex of transactions”.

Sean has participated in The International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.’s Future Leaders in Derivatives Program, its professional development program for emerging leaders in the derivatives market, and co-authored the ISDA whitepaper “GenAI in the Derivatives Market: a Future Perspective”.

Prior to joining the practice, Sean worked in the London office of another large international law firm. Sean has also completed a six-month client secondment at a leading investment bank.

Professional experience

Representative experience

Advising multiple global investment banks and asset management firms in relation to repackaging transactions involving a broad range of underlying assets (including loans, hedge fund units, index-linked derivatives, total return swaps and derivatives linked to existing securitisation transactions).
Acting for global investment banks in relation to multiple innovative cross border total return swap transactions.
Advising a global investment bank on the provision of perfect asset swaps to issuers of collateralised loan obligations.
Advising a syndicate of investment banks in relation to a syndicated repurchase transaction whereby a syndicate of banks provided US$3 billion to a central bank/monetary authority.
Acting for a global investment manager in relation to the drafting and negotiation of its equity-linked derivatives used to create the synthetic exposure for its iShares 500 synthetic ETF.
Advising a financial services group in relation to a commodity hedging syndication programme established to allow a group company to enter into over-the-counter commodity price hedges.
Advising multiple global and regional banks on Islamic derivatives and repo transactions.