Trade Finance

Commercial legal advice across all financial related matters.

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TRADE FINANCE LEGAL EXPERTS WITH GLOBAL REACH

We have expertise advising on a wide spectrum of financial related issues, ranging from trade and asset finance through to project finance. This service extends across the market, catering to producers, financiers, traders, transporters, and end users.

Our trade finance experts work collaboratively with many of our other teams to ensure we are able to leverage the knowledge available across our different sector groups as well as from our banking expert lawyers to ensure the delivery of a fully integrated service.

With an international network of offices, our team is empowered with the capacity, capability, and expertise to handle all finance-related enquiries across the global.

FINANCE EXPERTS WITH DEEP SECTOR EXPERIENCE

Our expertise covers the shipping, offshore, yacht and corporate jet sectors as well as the handling of assets relating to the transportation industry.

We also have expertise in commodities encompassing oil and gas, soft commodities, mining and minerals, power and freight; as well as structures including projects, pre-export financings, revolving trade facilities, prepayment, advanced payment facilities, documentary credits, letters of credit, CMAs, credit insurance and export credit insurance.

Our experience in Trade Finance

Our experience ranges across a wide scope of trade finance matters occurring throughout a multitude of industries, sectors and regions.

Advising a global bank in relation to a global rollout of their Global Trade & Receivables Finance product lines to over 35 jurisdictions.

Advising a digital trade company in relation to the implications of the UK Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023.

Advising clients on digital technologies, including electronic trade documents, distributed ledger technology, smart contracts, digital currencies, and the Internet of Things.

Advising on a coverage dispute concerning global debts faced by a Swedish insured with trading debts of approximately EUR 100m.

Advising various clients, including insurers, brokers, banks, and commodity traders, on the impact of international sanctions regimes, including at US, EU, UK, Swiss, UAE, French, Singaporean and Australian levels.

Acting for a commodity financier in recovering losses – in excess of USD 100m – from the restructuring of a commodity trading firm, including enforcement of receivables and winding up subsidiaries.

Advising a trading major on a USD 200m prepayment for copper anodes from Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Advising a trader major on a USD 40m prepayment for metal products from Oman.

Advising a grain major on English and Swiss law aspects on its USD 90m pre-export finance restructuring with a bank and other European banks.

Advising a global coffee company on its up to USD 400m secured sustainability-linked syndicated loan to finance coffee origination in Brazil and Colombia.

Advising a global agri trader on its worldwide structured trade finance and letter of credit activity involving support across more than 50 jurisdictions and multiple structures.

Advising a global agriculture trader on receivables purchase agreements with various global banks, including consideration of true sale aspects.

Providing advisory services to a major trading company on a syndicated gas repurchase agreement transaction with a bank.

Advising a global sugar trading company on financing a structured prepayment in Kazakhstan involving funding from a non-bank trade finance fund under a Swiss law Murabaha agreement.

Advising a Swiss trade finance bank on taking security over commodity stocks in various jurisdictions including Namibia, Tanzania, Australia, Brazil, US, Netherlands, Belgium, and Lithuania.

Key Contacts

Find your local experts

Olivier Bazin

Partner

Geneva

+41 (0)22 322 4814

+41 (0)79 582 6648

Contact by email

Matthew Cox

Partner

London

+44 (0)20 7264 8455

Contact by email

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