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Trade & Commodities Finance Experience
- Advising ING Bank on a US$20m pre-export financing for the export of copper concentrates from Erdenet copper mine, Mongolia, supported by limited recourse arrangements with the offtaker, Trafigura
- Advising a Middle Eastern Bank on the documentation and subsequent restructuring of a €160m facility to finance the export of petroleum products
- Advising several creditors including African Export-Import Bank and Ericsson as lenders to Vmobile Nigeria on an EPC project financing of a GSM mobile phone network in Nigeria. This transaction involved a consortium of 16 leading Nigerian financial institutions and 6 offshore lenders providing facilities in several phases which will ultimately reach approximately US$1bn, with support from MIGA and EKN
- Advising Arab Banking Corporation as the lender on a US$40m syndicated loan to one of the world’s leading livestock traders, to finance the export of livestock from Australia to the Middle East, including security arrangements in Egypt in relation to the livestock and custody arrangements with SGS
- Advising an international commodities house as lender in a US$10m pre export financing to a Ukrainian borrower secured on sugar stocks in the Ukraine
- Advising Chase Manhattan Trustees as the trustee, collection agent and lender agent in a US$200m securitisation of export receivables of a major Colombian coffee fund
- Advising the corporate trustee in a US$100m securitisation of a Brazilian paper and pulp manufacturer’s customer receivables and US$300m securitisation of a Brazilian steel manufacturer’s customer receivables
- Advising the arranger, a major French bank, on a US$180m revolving credit facility to provide finance for a receivables purchase facility in favour of the state owned Cuban oil corporation
- Successfully acted for a Scandinavian metals company as claimant in an arbitration where the claim exceeded US$100m and the Respondent was CIS based
Steven Burkill, Bangkok
Celia Gardiner, London
Michael Kenny, London
Jan Mellmann, London
Nigel Moss, Paris
Andrew Savage, London
Evan Stergoulis, London
Eugenio Tranchino, Rome
James A Watters, London
Alfred Yudes, New York
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