A&O Shearman’s global trade, commodity and export finance team provides end-to-end advice for a wide range of clients including financial institutions, alternative financiers, traders, producers, exporters, importers, insurers, multilateral organizations and development banks, export credit agencies (ECAs), and governments.

We have significant experience advising on structured transactions and providing legal and practical solutions across a variety of products, both in established and emerging markets.

Whether trading in physical commodities or commodity derivatives, using commodities to generate cash flows within Shari'ah-compliant financings, or entering into a commodities financing or structuring a complex commodities arbitrage transaction, there are a plethora of diverse legal issues to consider, from documentation to credit mitigation and from regulatory approvals to reputational issues.

We advise our clients on vanilla trade instruments and UCP rules, bilateral trade and receivables financings, pre-seller and post-import facilities, as well as innovative domestic and global supply chain finance programs, trade risk distribution structures, structured commodity financing and the most complex trade finance restructurings in the market.