Dewey & LeBoeuf

Yoo-Kyeong Kwon Kudo

Counsel

Yoo-Kyeong Kwon Kudo works on structured finance, corporate finance, structured products and derivatives transactions. She has advised issuers, underwriters, lenders and insurance companies in asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities offerings, asset-backed commercial paper programs, catastrophe and mortality bond offerings, interest rate swaps and caps, warehouse financing programs and acquisitions. She has represented investment advisors, credit enhancers, hedge funds and other derivatives end-users on a variety of transactions, including CDOs (including synthetic and hybrid CDOs), credit and equity derivatives (including total return swaps, market value swaps and prepaid forwards) and securities arbitrage programs. She has also represented an investor on a $1.5 billion equity monetization strategy involving total return swaps, prepaid forwards and other derivative transactions.

Ms. Kudo has assisted several of the firm's non-profit pro bono clients with incorporation, drafting bylaws, obtaining federal and state tax exemption, non-judicial dissolution and other legal issues.

Selected Activities

New York State Bar Association, Member of Committee on Derivatives and Structured Products Law
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Asian American Bar Association of New York
International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.

Publications

Co-author, "Derivatives Regulation under Dodd-Frank: Potential Implications for Insurance Products and Companies," Bloomberg Law Reports (March 2011).
Co-author, "Overview and Implication of the Regulatory Reform of OTC Derivatives," Dewey & LeBoeuf Client Alert (July 2010).
Co-author, "NCOIL Adopts Model Law Regulating Credit Default Swaps as Insurance," Journal of Reinsurance (Spring 2010).
Co-author, "The Derivatives Markets Transparency and Accountability Act of 2009: A Summary of the House Derivatives Legislation," Dewey and LeBoeuf Client Alert (January 29, 2010).
Co-author, "NCOIL Adopts Model Law Regulating Credit Default Swaps as Insurance," Dewey and LeBoeuf Client Alert (December 9, 2009).
Co-author, "A New Foundation for Derivatives Regulation," Dewey and LeBoeuf Client Alert (July 2, 2009).
Co-author, "Update: Avoid Liability for Insider Trading in Credit Default Swaps," Dewey and LeBoeuf Client Alert (May 19, 2009).
Co-author, "House Bill Would Require Registered Clearing Houses and Expand Authority of the CFTC," Dewey and LeBoeuf Client Alert (February 18, 2009).
Co-author, "CSX Corporation v. The Children's Investment Fund Management (UK) LLP, et al.: Southern District of New York Rules that Certain Counterparties to Cash-Settled Equity Swaps Must Report under Section 13(d) and 13(g)," Dewey and LeBoeuf Client Alert (June 17, 2008).
Co-author, "Avoiding Insider Trading Liability in Credit-Default Swaps: Parts One and Two," Derivatives Week (October 13 and 20, 2006).