Donna Parisi

Donna Parisi is the Global Head of Finance covering bank finance, leveraged lending, project finance, restructuring and insolvency, and structured products and derivatives. She is the Derivatives Team Leader, is a Lead Industry Coordinator for Financial Institutions and spearhead’s the firm’s Family Office Group. Donna also leads Shearman & Sterling's FinTech Foundry, Shearman Women and is a member of the Firm’s Executive Group.

She advises clients on the full range of derivatives, structured products, securitization, capital markets and commodities matters. In particular, she helps clients develop and structure new financial products and has extensive experience in the negotiation and documentation of OTC derivative transactions across all asset classes. Donna has broad and deep knowledge of financial institutions, regulatory requirements and the evolving business landscape. A skilled practitioner and negotiator, she represents major financial institutions including Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, hedge funds and other private investment funds as well as corporate clients.

Donna also spearheads the firm’s FinTech Foundry program, which supports the FinTech-related activities of our clients and the wider global FinTech ecosystem including financial institutions, FinTech start-ups, accelerators and incubators, venture capital and private equity investors, and policymakers.

• Banking
• Capital markets: Derivatives
• Financial services regulatory
• Investment funds
• Structured finance/securitisation

• Member, American Bar Association 
• Member, Committee on Commodities and Futures Law, New York State Bar Association 
• Member, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York

• Boston College Law School, J.D., 1993, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif 
• Vassar College, B.A., 1989