Partner, Mayer Brown

Anna Pinedo is the head of the firm’s capital markets practice.  She advises on structured products and derivatives matters.  In the derivatives area, Anna counsels a number of major financial institutions acting as dealers and participants in the commodities and derivatives markets. She advises on structuring issues as well as on regulatory issues, including those arising under the Dodd-Frank Act.  Anna assists dealer clients on matters relating to swap dealer and security-based swap dealer registration, introducing broker registration and related registration matters.  Once registered, Anna assists clients in connection with addressing compliance matters, including those relating to business conduct, swap documentation requirements, reporting and recordkeeping, margin, etc.  In addition, Anna advises on issues relating to commodity pool status and exemptions therefrom, whether in the context of specific financing transactions, or in connection with obtaining no-action letter relief from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for specific categories of persons.  Anna also assists clients with Volcker Rule trading and compliance questions.   

Her transactional work focuses on foreign exchange, equity and credit derivatives products, and structured derivatives transactions.  Anna has experience with a wide range of transactions and structures, including collars, swaps, forward and accelerated repurchases, forward sales, hybrid preferred stock and off-balance sheet structures.  Anna has particular experience with physical commodities and bullion, including gold, gold storage, and related matters.  She also has advised derivatives dealers regarding their Internet sites and other Internet and electronic signature/delivery issues, as well as on compliance matters.

Anna has testified before Congress as a subject matter expert on securities law related matters in connection with initiatives designed to promote capital formation. Among many other books and treatises, Anna is co-author of the leading capital markets treatise, Corporate Finance and the Securities Laws, published by Wolters Kluwer (sixth ed., updated 2020, 2022; seventh ed. 2023, updated 2024).  Anna is also co-author of the treatise Exempt and Hybrid Securities Offerings, published by the Practising Law Institute (PLI) (2009, second ed. 2011, updated 2014, third ed. 2017, fourth ed. 2022, updated 2024).

In connection with her derivatives practice, Anna is a contributor to Regulation of Swaps and Security-Based Swaps in the United States (2024 ed.), formerly published as OTC Derivatives Regulation Under Dodd-Frank: A Guide to Registration, Reporting, Business Conduct, and Clearing, published by Thomson Reuters (first ed. 2014, second ed. 2015, third ed. 2016, fourth ed. 2017, updated 2020-2023), and a contributor to Broker-Dealer Regulation, published by PLI (2011, second ed. 2012, updated 2024).  She co-authored “The Approaches to Bank Resolution,” a chapter in Bank Resolution: The European Regime (Oxford University Press, 2016).  Anna contributed to The Future of Bank Funding and Capital: Solutions for Issuers, Opportunities for Investors (IFR Market Intelligence, 2009).  Additionally, Anna co-authored “The Ties that Bind: The Prime-Brokerage Regulation,” a chapter in Global Financial Crisis (Globe Law and Business, 2009).

Anna is ranked as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, IFLR1000, and The Legal 500 US for structured products and derivatives.  She was named the “North America Capital Markets Lawyer of the Year” at the IFLR Women in Business Law Americas Awards 2025.  Anna was the first inductee into the International Financial Law Review’s Women Dealmakers Hall of Fame presented at the 2022 IFLR Americas Awards.  IFLR called Anna “a mainstay of the securities and derivatives market in the Americas...” as well as a “…thought leader in the industry.”  Anna was honored with Corporate Counsel’s 2024 Women, Influence & Power in Law “Lifetime Achievement” Award.

Anna has been included in the IFLR1000 Women Leaders Guide 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019, and is recognized by the guide in five Capital Markets categories (Equity, Debt, High Yield, Derivatives, and Structured Finance & Securitization).  Anna is also included in Euromoney’s Expert Guide for Banking, Finance and Transactional Law and Expert Guide for Women in Business Law for the categories of capital markets and structured finance and securitisation in the United States.  Anna was the winner of the 2013, 2018 and 2024 Structured Finance Lawyer of the Year (which includes securitization, derivatives and structured products).