Jeannette K. Boot

Jeannette K. Boot is Of Counsel with WilmerHale in New York, where she advises both sell-side and buy-side clients with respect to trading agreements and transactions, including ISDA documentation, futures, prime brokerage, term commitments, stock lending, repo, custodial arrangements, electronic services agreements and a wide range of derivatives products, both over-the-counter and cleared. Her practice includes working with swap dealers to create templates for various counterparty-facing transactions. She also works closely with the firm’s Broker-Dealer Compliance and Regulation Group to assist dealer clients with regulatory issues related to swaps. In connection with this advice, Ms. Boot has worked with clients on a wide variety of compliance issues related to Dodd-Frank and EMIR. In addition, she provides advice regarding various securities laws issues, including concerns related to insider trading and market manipulation. Ms. Boot also advises corporate clients with respect to all types of derivatives transactions. This includes negotiating ISDA master agreements and interest rate swaps in connection with credit facilities, negotiating various F/X arrangements and negotiating more bespoke equity derivatives transactions, including call spreads, accelerated share repurchases and forward share repurchases and sales. Additionally, Ms. Boot has provided advice in connection with various litigation and enforcement matters. She has teamed up with WilmerHale’s bankruptcy practice in connection with a number of Lehman-related matters, including two matters that are actively being litigated in bankruptcy court. Ms. Boot is the co-author of two amicus briefs on behalf of ISDA in Lehman cases, and has developed thorough knowledge of bankruptcy safe harbors for swaps, securities agreements and repurchase agreements. She also has worked on several large investigations on behalf of financial institutions clients. Ms. Boot received her B.A. in 1991 in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of California at Berkeley, her J.D. cum laude in 1995 from Harvard Law School, and her M.P.S. in 2021 from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.