Buy-side legal eagle

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A legal eagle who works for an asset manager or a hedge fund. Distrustful of brokers, probably having been an ISDA negotiator at one once — an experience it is, in fairness, quite hard to enjoy. The average buy-side legal eagle is a bit smaller than a normal legal eagle, but often puts up quite the show and often get the better of bigger, lopier, dopier sell-side legal eagles with bravura displays of growling and yipping.

Loves pina collada, walking in the rain, arguing about co-calculation agent rights and claiming all our other counterparties have given this.