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Nick Tostivin

Nick Tostivin is a partner and leads the Baker McKenzie London Banking team, focusing on cross-border syndicated lending transactions including in relation to emerging markets, governmental authorities, trade finance and financial restructuring. Email: nick.tostivin@bakermckenzie.com

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Commodity finance: the complete security package

COVID-19 lockdowns have disrupted commodity transactions and consequential enhanced oversight of borrowers’ businesses has uncovered fraudulent activities. Of utmost importance to any lender in a commodity financing is that the commodity exists and has not been financed by another party. Against this backdrop, in this article, the authors describe a typical security package adopted by commodity financiers under an English law commodity financing.

1 MAY 2021