Services

MH Fund Advisors provides specialist, commercially-focussed advice to the buy-side on all fund trading, derivatives and financing documentation and regulation such as AIFMD, EMIR, Dodd-Frank, MiFID and ISDA Protocols.

In particular, MH Fund Advisors advises on:

  • Prime brokerage, margin loan and term financing agreements, including cross-margining/cross-netting arrangements;
  • All ISDA and OTC documentation – ISDA Master Agreements, credit support documents (Credit Support Annex, Credit Support Deed and other bespoke collateral arrangements), portfolio swap documentation, confirmations (master, trade-specific and bespoke) across all asset classes;
  • FX and other OTC “prime brokerage” or intermediation/give-up arrangements;
  • OTC clearing in both the UK and US;
  • Exchange-traded derivatives execution and clearing;
  • Stock lending and repo arrangements (OSLA, GMSLA, MSLA, MRA, GMRA);
  • Cash trading, including broker-dealer standard terms of business, commission sharing arrangements;
  • Electronic trading/DMA;
  • Standalone clearing and custody arrangements, including UCITS and AIFMD depositary requirements, triparty collateral management arrangements;
  • EMIR, MiFID I/II, Dodd-Frank and AIFMD regulatory requirements, ISDA protocols;
  • Exchange, CCP and CSD documentation;
  • Market developments such as Hong Kong/China Stock Connect, EMIR account segregation, and provide market colour; and
  • Other ancillary documents such as NDAs and trading service provider agreements.

MH Fund Advisors has experience with a broad range fund structures (UCITs, SPCs, SPVs, master/feeder structures) across multiple jurisdictions (Cayman Islands, Luxembourg, Ireland, BVI and Delaware). We advise both large, mature funds and start-ups, in each case providing commercial and constructive advice – maintaining the relationship with the counterparty while informing the client of the risks and issues and obtaining a suitable set of terms. MH Fund Advisors can provide a full agreement review and negotiation, a commercial review of terms and risks i n existing documentation, a comprehensive renegotiation of documents, and advice on specific issues, trades or projects.  

MH Fund Advisors is business-minded due to our experience in the market and is able to provide colour on market standards, recent developments and issues that are of concern to buy-side clients.

MH Fund Advisors has worked with all the main players on the sell-side and is ready to provide prompt, experienced and commercial advice at competitive rates.