The past several years have witnessed the continuing growth of strategic equities as part of corporate finance advisory services for both listed issuers and their controlling shareholders. Strategic equities services offer a range of equity derivatives products to clients, including capital-raising, equity-linked products; structured share buy-back and share accumulation products; and hedging and monetisation products. This fourth edition of the Equity Derivatives volume in the Lexology Getting the Deal Through series aims to survey the equity derivatives landscape in key jurisdictions around the world and highlight the critical issues that practitioners and market participants should be aware of. This introduction gives a brief overview of the state of the global market and the primary product classes discussed in this volume.

Originally published in Lexology Getting The Deal Through - June 2019.