Finance & Commodities

We work with energy, mining & metals and softs

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Experience

Аfrica. Australia. CIS. Europe. South America

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Efficiency

We ensure our added value is evident. We are relentless at meeting deadlines and budgets

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We work on commercial, finance, corporate and compliance matters

We understand the risks
We address them accordingly

From a CPT purchase to a long term syndicated prepayment
From an L/C line to a Borrowing Base
From a minority stake to setting up country business
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Our work

Commercial agreements
  • Softs, oil, iron ore, steel, coal and others
  • Africa, Australia, CIS, Europe and South America
  • Spot and long term off-takes
  • Consignment stock and marketing agreements
Finance
  • Corporate / revolving facilities
  • Trade finance facilities and receivables finance
  • Borrowing base facilities
  • Asset finance
  • Letters of credit and guarantees
Prepayments
  • Limited recourse / insured structures
  • Direct ‘to producer’ and tiered structures
  • Secured and revolving transactions
  • Prepayment refinancing / funding
Logistics
  • Throughput and warehouse agreements
  • Truck, railway agreements and charterparties
  • Forwarders', surveyors' and stock monitoring agreements
  • Demurrage / related matters
Corporate and compliance
  • Country operations and group structures
  • Share purchase and shareholder agreements
  • Sanctions and AML policies
  • Commodities and other derivatives

Key people

Roman Chapaev
finance, corporate and commodities counsel
He has extensive experience in the commodities markets, including oil, metals and softs across Africa, the Americas, Europe and the CIS
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Roman works on commercial, corporate and finance transactions for traders and banks, including long-term off-takes, warehouse / throughput agreements, all types of prepayment, trade finance and borrowing base facilities, acquisition financings, share purchase and option agreements and complex debt restructurings

He also provides advice on regulatory and compliance matters, such as derivatives, anti-dumping and competition, collective investments schemes / alternative investment funds, financial promotion and data protection

Roman has recently worked with fintech projects, advising on securities markets legislation and structuring the business

His professional background includes English and US law firms in London, acting as consultant for a multilateral development bank and commercial counsel in Geneva for a major independent commodities trading house

He holds LLM (MGIMO, Moscow) and LLM (QM, London) degrees and PhD in Banking and Finance from the University of London. He has contributed to published works on financial markets, corporate governance and arbitration

He is admitted as solicitor of England and Wales

Iren Stewart
leads our representative office in Hong Kong
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We provide advice to our clients in Asia directly from the United Kingdom; and our Hong Kong hub serves as a convenient point of contact and provides daily support to our operations.

Iren is our head of office and a corporate and taxation professional with over 20 years’ experience covering complex structures for international groups.

She is a long-term resident of Asia and supports our clients with an in-depth understanding of the local business culture.

Olga Ward
compliance: AML/KYC, financial crime and sanctions
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Olga is our consultant for every aspect of modern regulatory compliance requrements.

She has forged her skills within financial services institutions and has also worked for  larger corporations, smaller and entrepreneurial start-ups and consultancies.

Olga understands every detail of practical application of legal and regulatory requirements. Her advice strives to deliver the optimal financial crime policy effectiveness for each business.

Olga has completed GDL (BPP School of Law) and has an LLM degree in Financial Regulation and Compliance.

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