Anna T. Pinedo is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s New York office. Ms. Pinedo has concentrated her practice on securities and derivatives. She represents issuers, investment banks/financial intermediaries, and investors in financing transactions, including public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, as well as structured notes and other structured products. Ms. Pinedo works closely with financial institutions to create and structure innovative financing techniques, including new securities distribution methodologies and financial products.

Ms. Pinedo has particular financing expertise in certain industries, including working with technology-based companies (Internet-related, life science and biotech), telecommunications companies, healthcare companies, financial institutions, REITs and consumer finance companies. Ms. Pinedo has worked closely with foreign private issuers in their securities offerings in the United States and in the Euro markets. She also has worked with financial institutions in connection with international offerings of equity and debt securities, equity- and credit-linked notes, and hybrid and structured products, as well as medium-term note and commercial paper programs.

In the derivatives area, Ms. Pinedo counsels a number of major financial institutions acting as dealers and participants in the commodities and derivatives markets. Ms. Pinedo advises on structuring issues, as well as on regulatory issues, monetization, and hedging techniques. Her work focuses on foreign exchanges, equity and credit derivatives products, and structured derivatives transactions. Ms. Pinedo has experience with a wide range of transactions and structures, including collars, swaps, forward and accelerated repurchases, forward sales, hybrid preferred stock, equity- and credit-linked notes, and off-balance sheet structures. Ms. Pinedo also has advised derivatives dealers regarding their Internet sites and other Internet and electronic signature/delivery issues.

Ms. Pinedo is a member of the American Bar Association’s Committee on the Federal Regulation of Securities, a member of the subcommittee on Disclosure and Continuous Reporting, a member of the subcommittee on Securities Registration and a member of the task force on the future of securities regulation. She has participated in the drafting committee for the ABA’s comment letters on such topics as the securities offering reforms, revisions to accelerated filing and the smaller public company proposals. Ms. Pinedo also is a member of the ABA Committee on Regulation of Futures and Derivatives Instruments. Ms. Pinedo has been included in Crain’s New York Business “Forty Under 40” and in Investment Dealer’s Digest “Forty Under 40,” and in Hispanic Business’s “100 Most Influential Hispanics.” Ms. Pinedo has been ranked by Chambers USA as one of America’s leading capital markets-derivatives lawyers and by Chambers Global as one of the world’s leading lawyers (recommended in capital markets – derivatives). Ms. Pinedo also has been cited as a recommended lawyer for capital markets in the IFLR 1000 Guide to Leading Lawyers and as a recommended lawyer in capital markets and in derivatives by The Legal 500 – United States. Ms. Pinedo was a recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Achievement in 2007, which honors excellence in legal writing.

Ms. Pinedo regularly speaks at conferences and participates in panel discussions addressing securities law issues, as well as the securities issues arising in connection with derivatives and other financial products.

Ms. Pinedo received her B.S.F.S. degree from Georgetown University in 1990. In 1993, she received her J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a member of the University of Chicago Legal Forum. Ms. Pinedo is a member of the New York Bar.