Paris A. Theofanidis

Paris A. Theofanidis is a partner in the Global Finance practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s Houston office. Mr. Theofanidis principal practice areas are finance, derivatives, and structured products. He has extensive experience representing corporate borrowers and issuers, institutional investors, insurance companies, private equity funds, hedge funds, commercial banks, and underwriters in a multitude of significant transactions involving various subspecialties of finance, including syndicated bank finance, structured finance, project finance, capital markets finance, private placement of notes, equipment finance, mezzanine finance, second lien finance, bridge finance, and maritime finance.

Mr. Theofanidis also represents dealers and corporate end-users in an array of over-the-counter derivatives transactions and structured products, including interest rate hedges, commodity hedges, foreign exchange transactions and currency options, equity derivatives, structured investments, total return swaps, credit default swaps, repurchase agreements, and cross-products netting and collateral arrangements. Mr. Theofanidis also has extensive experience negotiating and documenting physically-settled commodity transactions, including forward sale transactions involving the purchase and sale of crude oil, natural gas, and gold.