Ian Clements > Dentons > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Acting on its own as well as able to leverage the firm’s impressive international footprint, Dentons advises a lender-focused client base on domestic and cross-border new money and refinancing deals, utilising the full suite of ABL techniques. Key practitioners include Ian Clements, who regularly employs ABL techniques as part of his broader structured trade and commodity finance offering, and Glasgow-based Stuart Fitzsimmons, who handles ABL work, including within the whisky space, as part of his wide-ranging finance practice. Former team head Simon Prendergast joined Mills & Reeve LLP in May 2024.

The commodities, trade and upstream finance practice at Dentons ‘has obvious expertise and engages collaboratively throughout deals‘. The team brings together expertise in project finance, OTC securities, export credit finance and Islamic banking to complement its core skills in trade finance instruments, for which Ian Clements is the main practitioner. He handles syndicated and bilateral borrowing base, pre-export and structured prepayment financings. Mark Cheney is a key adviser to investment banks, commodity trading houses and utilities on complex trading transactions in the energy sector. Asset-based lending specialist Simon Prendergast is highly regarded for receivables financing transactions, and the ‘solution-driven‘ James Francis is also active in export and asset finance matters. The firm is a trusted adviser to leading international banks, ECAs, and corporate borrowers.