Trade Finance Lawyers
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Our commitment to servicing your trade finance needs complements our commodities trading practice. We offer trade finance banks and trading houses an approach based on experience and attention to detail. Our scope extends from review of and advice upon standard documentation, to tailor made solutions covering the following areas of expertise.
Transactional finance
- Drafting and negotiating bilateral and syndicated facilities
- Deeds of assignment, pledges, letters of hypothecation and registration of charges
- Documentary credits, standby credits and guarantees (UCP, ISBP, URDG)
- Bills of exchange and promissory notes
- Tri-partite agreements between traders, brokers/members and financing banks
Structured trade finance
- Pre-finance agreements (PXF, prepayment)
- Stock/inventory finance (SMA/CMAs)
- Repo financing structures
- Tolling agreements
- Seizure and enforcement – assets/receivables worldwide
Having knowledge of bank, borrower and beneficiary requirements enables us to give realistic advice which can be acted upon quickly if the need arises.
We advise clients on structuring finance transactions linked to an underlying commodity, frequently involving warehouse receipt financing, forfaiting, invoice discounting, letters of credit, borrowing base financing, pre-export financing, supply chain financing and ECA financing. Our team advises on hedging structures including the offsetting of political and performance risk through use of insurance and derivative instruments.
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