Commodities: Trade Finance

About

Provided by gunnercooke

The team has between 15 and 30 years of experience advising international financiers, traders and brokers in the physical and paper commodities markets. Many of our practitioners have worked on trading floors with front-office desks and structured finance departments. We are highly experienced in the full range of traded commodities including oil, natural gas, electricity, coal, metals (base, ferrous, precious), agricultural products and renewables, and deal with physical, derivative and financing structures.

Work highlights:

• Advising Green Biofuels on a £10m further equity, credit and supply investment into the company by BP PLC.
• Advising Torq, an international group trading in soft and agricultural commodities, on its expansion program.
• Advising Eterna Plc, a listed Nigerian fuel importer/distributor in its ongoing dispute with a Swiss trade finance bank over the ownership and control of a cargo of baseoil.
• Advising a Swiss commodity trader and investment firm on a working capital facility for a UK scrap metals merchant.
• Advising Shard Credit Partners Ltd on the structuring and implementation of a new trade finance vehicle using sale and repurchase funding techniques.
• Advising Cabipa, a Nigerian importer of refined petroleum products on its supply, storage and financing arrangements in West and East Africa.
• Advising Mizrahi Tefahot Bank on its new facility with Czarnikow, a major physical trader of sugar and food packaging.