Areas of Expertise
Banking & Financial Services include:
- Acquisitions, Disposals & Mergers
- Derivatives
- E-Commerce: digital trading platforms and their terms and conditions
- FinTech: cryptoassets and smart contracts
- Futures Exchanges
- Insolvency issues
- Inventory Financing and Trade Finance
- Lending (syndicated facilities; revolving loans; JV and Shareholder Agreements)
- Regulatory disputes and investigations
- Security & Collateral
- Structured finance
Shipping, Trade & Offshore includes:
- Admiralty
- Bills of Lading
- Carriage of goods by road, rail, pipeline, air and sea
- Chartering & COAs
- Commodities (see below)
- Containerised and liner trading
- Electronic trading
- Energy, including construction (energy contracts, drilling units)
- Environmental and hazardous disasters
- Exploration & Production (including JVs, Concessions, Joint Operating Agreements, offshore energy disputes, rigs, FPSOs)
- Insurance
- Maritime/shipping
- Mining & Metals
- Sale of Goods
- Ship sale and purchase
- Shipyard & shipbuilding disputes
- Storage
- Warehousing and vaulting
Experience in all manner of commodities. Includes:
- Agricultural and softs (including timber and cotton)
- Bullion and PGMs
- Coal
- Carbon/emissions
- LNG, natural gas
- Metals
- Oil (fossil and bio-fuels)
- Renewables (ethanol, weather derivatives)
