Service overview: Trade finance lawyers
Service overview: Trade finance lawyers
- Trade finance concerns the supply of financial instruments to facilitate international trade and commerce. It helps importers and exporters to transact business through trade.
- Trade finance can help reduce the risks from global trade by reconciling the needs of an exporter and importer.
- It provides an exporter with payment according to an agreement while the importer might be extended credit to fulfil the order.
- As a trade finance law firm, we advise on all aspects of trade finance, including documentary and standby letters of credit, export and pre-export facilities, guarantee issuance facilities, carriage of goods’ contracts and shipping terms, receivables’ financing, factoring and discounting arrangements.
- Key issues with trade finance include currency fluctuations, political instability, non-payment and creditworthiness.
“The lawyer’s truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.”
Henry D. Thoreau
What we do: Trade finance legal advice
We provide advice to banks, financial institutions, traders, brokers, ship owners, insurers, producers and industrial end-users on all aspects of the financing of trade. Depending on your needs, we can advise on bilateral transactions, taking participations, syndicated financings and arrangements to transfer credit risk.
Our lawyers can assist you with your requirements and walk you through these processes to guarantee a smooth transaction. Some of the typical documents, agreements and services we would help your business with include:
- lending lines of credit
- standby letters of credit
- export and pre-export facilities
- carriage of goods’ contracts
- factoring and discounting arrangements
- export credit or working capital
- shipping terms
Who we help
We regularly give expert legal advice on trade finance throughout all stages of a transaction to a wide range of clients, including:
- banks
- traders
- brokers
- ship owners
- insurers
