Katten represented Global Trading Systems (GTS), a New York-based global electronic market maker and quantitative trading firm, in connection with a highly-publicized and complex strategic collaboration with French bank BNP Paribas. This collaboration will enable BNP Paribas to leverage GTS' trading and technology capabilities with the goal of providing BNP Paribas's clients with deeper liquidity, tighter spreads and further improved pricing in the US Treasuries secondary market. The Katten team included Financial Services global co-chair Lance Zinman, Financial Services partner Christopher Shannon, Commercial Finance partner John Krol, Technology national co-chair Tanya Curtis, Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity co-head Doron Goldstein, Chicago Financial Services head Janet Angstadt and Financial Services associates Laura Krcmaric and Stanley Polit.
Katten is a leading advisor to hedge funds and asset managers, proprietary trading firms and other buy-side and sell-side entities that deploy quantitative and algorithmic trading strategies.
- "BNP Paribas and GTS Team Up for US Treasuries Trading," Financial Times, November 16, 2017
