Mayer Brown International LLP advises on the full spectrum of trade finance matters, with expertise spanning structured trade and commodity finance, inventory monetisation, trade asset securitisation and structured finance, receivables finance, supply chain finance, export finance and risk distribution. Practice head Alex Dell acts for a diverse client base comprising banks, private credit funds, sponsors and corporates. Charles Thain has a broad trade finance practice encompassing traditional trade finance, receivables finance, payables finance and borrowing base facilities.
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Key clients
- Afreximbank
- Banco Santander
- Barclays Bank
- Bladex
- BNP Paribas
- Bradesco
- CIBC
- Citibank
- Cooperative Rabobank
- Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
- Deutsche Bank
- The Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank
- HSBC
- ING
- JPMorgan Chase Bank
- Katsumi
- Lloyds Bank
- MUFG
- Pemberton Capital Advisors
- PB Factoring
Work highlights
Advising African Export-Import Bank, Bladex and Deutsche Bank AG as global coordinators and mandated lead arrangers on Staatsolie’s $1.6 billion long-term senior secured loan financing facility.
Advised United Energy Limited on a reserve-based lending facility to finance its acquisition of Apex International Energy Holdings I and its interests in onshore oil concessions in Egypt's Western Desert, and to refinance existing indebtedness at both the Apex and UEG group levels.
Representing Citibank and UKEF in connection with a UKEF covered facility agreement for the financing of the modernisation of the Lagos Port Complex and Tin-Can Island Port Complex in Lagos State, with The Nigerian Ports Authority as borrower and the Federal Government of Nigeria as guarantor.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Alex Dell
Other key lawyers
Charles Thain