Mining and commodities

Our commodities team regularly acts in soft commodities, mining and minerals and energy (oil and gas), trade and export finance and trade and energy dispute resolution.

Our team has experience in the financing of the production, export, transport and warehousing of a vast range of commodities, including oil, oil products and other energy commodities, bio fuels, chemicals, precious and base metals, soft commodities such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, grains and edible oils, paper, cotton, textiles and carbon credits.

Our structured trade and commodity finance team regularly acts as lead international legal counsel for major banks and borrowers on the full range of commodity finance structures in developing markets. We have expertise in a variety of structured commodity products including pre-export, prepayment, pre-production, post-import, tolling and processing, barter and counter-trade, stock and inventory financing, asset-backed securitisations and reserve or borrowing base financings.

Trade Finance Law Firm of the Year 2009 and 2010 - Trade Finance Magazine