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Transferring Risk in Trade Assets

Posted by Maria Capocci on Feb 10, 2023 12:36:57 PM

Posted by London trainee Pedro Leake-Bandeira and associate Maria Capocci

The original Bankers Association of Finance and Trade Master Participation Agreement (“BAFT MPA”) was launched in 2008 to enable market participants (with its focus on banking groups) to more easily enter into risk transfer agreements, by providing a standard form document that all participants would grow to know and understand.

At the most recent Sullivan trade finance webinar, Geoff Wynne covered the development of documentation for transferring risk through different forms of participation agreements and considered whether the BAFT MPA is always the best way.

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Topics: BAFT MPA

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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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