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Dyna Yates

Dyna is experienced in trade, structured trade and commodity finance. She has advised clients on a wide range of cross-border trade finance transactions in a variety of jurisdictions across mainland Europe, CIS, Africa and Asia, with an emphasis on emerging markets. Dyna acts for leading banks advising on secured commodity financings, letter of credit and guarantee issuance facilities, commodity repo structures, trade instruments and receivables financings, including supply chain finance on a wide range of commodities including oil, gas, metals and softs. She also regularly advises banks on risk sharing techniques, including the drafting of sub-participations. Her experience also includes advising on the impact of regulatory changes in respect of trade finance. More recently Dyna has advised banks and corporates on the use of technology in their financings and has advised on some bespoke structures. Dyna is an associate at Sullivan & Worcester in the London office. She spent nine months on secondment to the London-based trade finance legal team of a leading multinational bank.

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Collateral Managers – Do you need them?

Posted by Dyna Yates on Apr 17, 2023 10:32:28 AM

In our webinar of 23 March 2023, Sam Fowler-Holmes and I looked at some common structures in trade finance.

When discussing structuring warehouse financing, we mentioned that one key mitigator of risk in such structures was the role of a collateral manager or stock monitor.

As an independent third party in any transaction where the sale of the inventory is the primary source of repayment of the financing a collateral manager or a stock monitor can provide an added layer of comfort to the financier.

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Topics: collateral managers, warehouse financing

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Portrait of Geoffrey Wynne

Geoffrey Wynne is head of Sullivan’s Trade & Export Finance Group and the firm's London office.

He has extensive experience in banking and finance, specifically in corporate and international finance, trade, structured trade and commodity finance, electronic banking and digitizing trade finance, structured finance, asset and project finance, syndicated lending, equipment leasing, workouts and financing restructuring and general commercial matters.

Recognised as one of the leading trade finance lawyers globally, Geoff advises many of the major trade finance banks and financial institutions around the world on trade and commodity transactions in virtually every emerging market including in the CIS, Asia, 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.

 

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