Banking & Finance

We are committed to effective team-building with our clients to enable us to clearly understand their objectives, anticipate their needs and ensure that we exceed all expectations. One of our many strengths is our in-depth knowledge of the local financial market, coupled with our drive for excellence and the full complement of our firm’s expertise in commercial services.

Given the importance of trade to any economy, lawyers in Banking & Finance Team have a keen understanding of the ever changing dynamics of the market environment and provide expert opinion on structured trade finance, pre and post-shipping financing, facilities letter, letters of credit and other forms of documentary credit, security over receivables, trading contracts, letters of pledge, bills of lading, leasing, warehouse receipts etc., to our clients in this increasingly complex practice area. We have actively interfaced and represented market participants such as banks, commodity trading companies, export credit agencies and other corporates in different capacities.

Projects typically have unique demands and dynamics. Our in-depth understanding and knowledge of the political, legal and commercial environment enables us to better appreciate the underlying business issues and risks, and to work constructively with all parties to allocate these risks appropriately. We offer to work as part of your team to anticipate and meet challenges that may be peculiar to each specific project in order to provide both legal and commercially expedient expert advice to meet mutual objectives on the financing aspects of the project. As part of this service, we are able to provide advice on the equity and debt instruments that may be utilized, inter-creditor arrangements, subordination agreements, construction contracts, off-take agreements, accounts structure, security packages and other ancillary documents that are typical to such projects.