Nicholas (Nick) Grandage > Norton Rose Fulbright > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Clients of Norton Rose Fulbright‘s finance practice are impressed by the ‘expert market knowledge of supply chain financing and breadth of legal knowledge across a large number of jurisdictions‘. The firm has a long track record in structured trade finance transactions and is taking a lead role in helping clients transition to digital transactions. It recently advised a global bank on structuring a new B2B payment solution based on receivables financing instruments. It also has one of the leading trade-related fintech practices, notably handling supply chain finance, and securitising trade receivables. Global head of trade finance Nicholas Grandage and newly promoted partner Tudor Plapcianu ‘have excellent market knowledge and are both very personable and easy to deal with‘. Andrew Wood recently acted for a multinational oil and gas exploration company in its oil marketing and off-take contracts with a major global trading house, alongside $400m in notes for liability management purposes. Mark Brighouse, who handles pre-export and prepayment transactions, Islamic finance, ownership and receivables finance and asset based lending, and structured finance partner Yusuf Battiwala also play pivotal roles in the practice.