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A queer fish with an odd relationship with the [[Legal Eagles|legal department]], from whom she almost certainly originated. [[Structurers]], and ''legal'' structurers, are some kind of odd hybrid between [[Sales]] and [[Trading]], hired onto the desk in the dog days of 2005 (when anyone actually ''did'' “structuring”) to salt away the fiddly details of a complex derivative trade that [[Trading]] can’t model and [[Sales]] has no hope of understanding, let alone giving the merest toss about.

Whether such a graduate structurer is a kind of übermensch who has overcome her basic nature to become something greater, or just a runt who has succumbed to his own mortal weakness, having proven unable to hack the rigours of unadulterated legal practice, is a matter of conjecture. Structurers tend to say the former; in-house lawyers the latter, though there is irony here in that private practice lawyers will say exactly the same thing about those who have gone in-house.

In any case structurers tend to obsess about legal details, to the exasperation of their [[legal]] colleagues whose job it actually is to obsess about this. when two factions in the same camp are trying to outdo each other in pedantry before the other side has even had a go, there is no hope that the document will be anything but a disaster.

 

This kind of internal arms race led to the CDO cubed.