Rafal Gawlowski is a partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins. Mr. Gawlowski is global Co-chair of the Financial Institutions Industry Group, and a member of the firm's Corporate Department and of the Capital Markets, Derivatives and Structured Finance & Securitization practices. Those transactions most prominently include derivatives products relating to equity-linked capital markets transactions (call spread overlays), structured repurchase transactions (accelerated forward and forward issuer repurchases), issuer forward issuance transactions, various monetization and hedging transactions, derivative financing transactions, etc.

Mr. Gawlowski has represented a number of financial institutions, including Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, Bank of America, UBS, as well as several publicly traded companies. In addition to derivatives, he has practiced in the areas of cross-border corporate finance, private equity, structured finance, investment management and banking, both in New York and in London.

Mr. Gawlowski also represents numerous “buy-side” clients of the firm on equity derivatives transactions and related issues, including corporate issuers like Amgen, Sempra, Kilroy, Oracle, private equity and asset management clients like Leonard Green, sovereign wealth clients, most notably Qatar Investment Authority and quasi-regulatory clients like the Qatar Exchange. In addition, Mr. Gawlowski regularly provides his financial institution, corporate and other clients with regulatory advice relating to areas relevant to equities and equity derivatives compliance.