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Fixed and Floating Charges: the Key is Control, but the Key to Control is Drafting

Posted by Natalie Lake on May 18, 2023 3:59:47 PM

In our April webinar “Risk Mitigation Techniques in Trade Financing Structures”, which I delivered with my colleagues Sam Fowler-Holmes and Maria Capocci, we discussed methods to mitigate risks all the way along the transaction lifecycle. We covered the option of taking charges over the accounts of a Borrower and the funds standing to the credit of such accounts, looking at the importance of the "triple cocktail" in demonstrating the requisite level of control where a lender wants to take the coveted fixed charge. 

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Topics: Fixed and Floating Charges

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Sam Fowler-Holmes is a partner in the Trade & Export Finance Group in Sullivan’s London office. He specialises in structured and unstructured trade, commodity and export finance, advising both financial institution and corporate clients on a range of financing products including pre-export financing, prepayment financing, letter of credit and payment instrument facilities and working capital and borrowing base financings. Sam is a regular speaker at the Sullivan trade and export finance seminars and is a member of the ITFA Emerging Leaders Committee.

 

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