Delivering Clarity and Process to Complicated Agreements
What We Do
Koya Law LLC® is focused on representing our global client base with the negotiation, evaluation, and documentation of their complex financing, cash, and derivatives trading arrangements.
Our Client Base consists of more than 100 institutions that regularly engage in transactional activity in a 500 trillion dollar market that requires some or all of the following platform agreements for entry: ISDA Master Agreements (ISDAs), Derivative Master Confirmations (MCAs), Prime Brokerage Agreements (PBAs), synthetic prime brokerage Agreements (total return swaps), fixed income prime brokerage agreements, FX prime brokerage agreements, lockup arrangements, committed lines, Master Repurchase Agreements (MRAs), Global Master Repurchase Agreements (GMRAs), futures agreements, Securities Lending Arrangements (GMSLAs, OSLAs, MSLAs, & MSFTAs), fully paid lending arrangements, custody agreements, tri-party custodian agreements, structured derivative confirmations, cross margin agreements, master netting agreements, executing broker confirmations, and other similar arrangements.
Our firm is solely focused in this area of law and our senior management team has held senior positions at large banks / broker dealers and / or have been partners or senior associates at large law firms.
We are often tasked with large scale projects that involve the review of agreements, identifying weaknesses, recommending and effecting a renegotiation effort to standardize terms of agreements for our clients across dealers and agreements with each dealer.
We have become dominant in this arena due to our efficiency, ability to provide relevant market color, focus on closing negotiations, thoroughness and diligent representation of our clients.
Standard Agreements
Koya DocuTracker is a SaaS product that monitors and manages the credit, risk, operational and legal terms of complex and repeatable financing / trading agreements (ISDA, PB Agreements, Lockups, Futures Agreements, and Repurchase Agreements). These agreements are the building blocks for most transactions involving leverage; for firms that enter into derivative or financing transactions on a regular basis, navigating the credit and risk terms in these arrangements is a challenge.
Our Process
Koya Law infuses technology into its law practice to ensure a more transparent and knowledgeable negotiation process. The focus of negotiations should remain on the material terms of the agreements and not be mired in the process (i.e., worrying about who the agreement is with, what agreements are being negotiated, locating the last movement on a contract, etc.). We’ve built web based applications so that we can provide clients with weekly status reports that identify who the agreement is with and next steps.
We identify and track (using proprietary technology), the critical terms of agreements and fallbacks. We track progress on agreement terms for clients and focus on providing them with market color and context to help them make educated decisions with respect to their agreements.
We are often tasked with large scale projects that involve the review of agreements, identifying weaknesses, recommending and effecting a renegotiation effort to standardize terms of agreements for our clients across dealers and agreements with each dealer.
We have become dominant in this arena due to our efficiency, providing relevant market color, focus on closing negotiations, thoroughness and diligent representation of our clients.
Senior Team
