Baker McKenzie

The trade and export finance practice at Baker McKenzie handles high-value, cross-border or complex transactions, particularly in emerging markets. Its work spans credit agency finance, pre-export finance, pre-payment finance, borrowing base finance, structured receivables finance, factoring and supply chain finance for financial institutions, corporates and government entities across EMEA and CIS Regions, as well as Latin America, with a particular sector emphasis on commodities, oil and gas and infrastructure. Luka Lightfoot, who assisted Afrexim with the $380m financing of Somoil, and Nick Tostivin are the lead partners. Structured finance partner Jeremy Levy increasingly focuses on trade receivables financing, including factoring transactions. He advised Finalbion on a €220m warehouse securitisation backed by factoring receivables, reverse factoring and loan receivables.