Trade & Commodity Finance

The MLL Legal team is experienced in the financing of the production, export, transport, warehousing and sale and purchase of commodities including oil and oil products, precious and base metals, soft commodities such as various food products, paper, cotton and textiles and related assets such as carbon credits. Our in-depth legal knowledge of innovative structured trade and commodity finance transactions enables us to provide clients with the necessary insight to tailor financings to their particular requirements, export credit-supported financing and novel capital markets transactions.

Areas of expertise

  • Barter and counter-trade
  • Export finance
  • Export credit agency supported financing
  • Post-import financing
  • Pre-export financing
  • Pre-payment financing
  • Receivables purchase and factoring transactions including supply chain finance
  • Stock and inventory financing including ownership structures

Other relevant areas

Asset ManagementInvestment Funds | Debt & Equity Capital MarketsStructured Finance & Lending | Aviation & Ship Finance | Islamic Finance | Derivatives, Structured ProductsFinancial Services & Regulatory | General Legal Documentation & Transaction Support | Regulatory & Compliance Support | FinTech | Private Banking | Payment Services



“Proactive. Work exact. Great knowledge”

IFLR 1000, 2021-22

Related to this Practice Area

Publications

Client segmentation under FinSA

International Law Office, November 2019
  • EN

Classification of stablecoins under Swiss law: FINMA publishes amended guidelines

International Law Office, October 2019
  • EN

FDF proposes key changes to FinSO and FinlO

International Law Office, September 2019
  • EN

Blockchain – Aspetti legali e punti d’intervento del legislatore

Speaker at L'Associazione Internazionale Giuristi di Lingua Italiana (AIGLI), XXXII Convegno in Monopoli (BR), Italy, 26-29 September 2019
  • IT