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Geoffrey Wynne
Work Department
Trade and Export Finance Group.
Position
Geoffrey Wynne is head of the Trade & Export Finance Group and Sullivan’s London office. He has extensive experience in banking and finance, specifically corporate and international finance, trade and structured trade and commodity finance, electronic bank and digitising trade finance, structured finance, asset and project finance, syndicated lending, equipment leasing, workouts and financing restructuring, leveraged and management buy-outs and general commercial matters.
Recognised as one of the leading trade finance lawyers globally, Geoff has advised extensively many of the major trade finance banks around the world on trade and commodity transactions in virtually every emerging market including CIS, Far East, India, Africa and Latin America. He has worked on many structured trade transactions covering such diverse commodities as oil, nickel, steel, tobacco, cocoa and coffee.
The team which Geoff leads has won numerous awards and recognition for its work in the Trade and Export Finance industry. In 2021 the firm was named ‘GTR Law Firm of the Year for Innovation’, recognising the role the firm played during the initial stages of the pandemic in 2020 helping to ensure the trade finance industry was able to move to a secure digital environment from a legal perspective.
Career
Joined Sullivan & Worcester 2013.
Education
Christ Church, Oxford University, 1972, BA (Jurisprudence)
The College of Law, 1972-73.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Trade finance
(Hall of Fame)Sullivan & Worcester LLP has ‘a dedicated team with depth of knowledge and they are great people to work with‘. The firm is not only a key adviser to financial institutions, funds, corporate borrowers, agents and trustees, international and industry bodies on the full range of traditional trade finance instruments, but it is also a leading player in the development of digital banking in trade finance platforms. Geoffrey Wynne
(who is ‘the most experienced trade finance lawyer in the market‘), the ‘hugely knowledgeable, commercially aware‘ Simon Cook (who is ‘super-attentive to clients, and commercial when needed‘), Sam Fowler-Holmes (who is ‘super-attentive to clients, and commercial when needed‘), and Mark Norris (who ‘seeks to find solutions and understands that cost management is particularly important‘) are the lead partners. Managing associate Hannah Fearn and head of the UK insurance and disputes practices Marian Boyle are also key to the practice. Wynne recently assisted Lloyds Bank with the template structure for the UK’s first digital ‘promissory note’ purchase under the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) Digital Negotiable Instrument initiative (DNI).