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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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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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