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Luna Owen

Luna advises on a variety of banking and finance transactions and disputes involving parties in a range of jurisdictions. Her transactional experience includes syndicated and bilateral financing, receivables financing, supply chain finance, as well as structured and unstructured trade finance. On the dispute resolution side, she has worked on a variety of disputes relating to letters of credit and documentary collections, trade related professional negligence claims and insurance policies that support global trade. Luna also works closely with Sullivan’s team advising financiers and fintechs on developing tools and platforms to progress the digitalisation of trade finance and on the proposals to reform the legal landscape within which digitised technology will work.

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Today is the Day! Welcome to the Electronic Trade Documents Act

Posted by Luna Owen on Sep 20, 2023 9:40:24 AM

Edited by: Matilda Johnson and Geoffrey Wynne

Today is the day, the Electronic Trade Documents Act (ETDA) is now in force! Although a short piece of legislation, it is flexible and seeks to give certain trade-related electronic documents the same legal recognition as their paper counterparts. This will help to move at least some of the sizeable trade market into the digital era.

It is no secret that the ETDA will offer a certain level of clarity to help mold responses to the ever-growing number of questions and approaches put forward by clients and industry bodies that are looking to use digital solutions for trade and trade finance facilities and finance transactions. However, the flexibility afforded by the ETDA means that different players in the industry could take a range of different approaches in order to create an end to end digital, ETDA-compliant, trade or trade finance transaction.

There are a number of parties seeking advice to determine how best to deal with their digital solutions for trade such as key legal and operational elements not covered by the ETDA, including governing law considerations and the issues presented around the flexible, technology neutral concept of a "reliable system." No doubt many solutions will emerge.

For further information on the ETDA or on the digitalisation of trade in general, please contact Geoff Wynne (Partner), Simon Cook (Partner), Luna Owen (Associate) or your usual contact at the firm.

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Ellis Lawson is a partner in the Trade & Export Finance Group in Sullivan's London office. He has extensive experience across a wide range of finance products and geographies, having spent significant portions of his career based both in London and in the Middle East and having advised on transactions across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Ellis is also a speaker for Sullivan's Trade & Export Finance webinars.

 

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