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Trade and Export Finance
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Trade and Export Finance

Deacons is at the leading edge of trade and export finance in Australian and Asia.   Our extensive Asia-Pacific network puts us in a unique position to assist major global banks, exporters, traders, insurers and other market players in international trade and export finance matters and allows us to provide our clients with advice under English and Australian laws as well as various regional local laws.  

We have a market leading team that specialises in devising workable structures for project financings and trade and commodity financings in emerging markets and have considerable experience in Australia, East Asia, the Sub-Continent and Central Asia and the Pacific Rim, on financings for many types of soft and hard commodities, oil and gas fields, power projects, mining ventures, industrial plants and agricultural businesses, as well as the use of receivables to finance projects and securitisations.  We have also assisted major Australian banks develop their structured and "vanilla" trade products.  

We also have considerable expertise in international shipping and trade related disputes including cargo and bills of lading, charterparties (ASBATANKVOY, SHELLVOY AND BPVOY), letters of credit disputes and offtake contracts (including under FOB, CFR, CIF and other INCOTERMS).

Products and Commodities:  Our expertise covers products and commodities including aluminium, coal, cocoa, coffee, coke, copper, cotton, electricity, frozen fish, gas, gold, grain, mining equipment, nickel, oil and petroleum products, ships, steel, soya beans, sugar, telecoms equipment and zinc.

Countries: Our country experience includes Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Ghana, Hong Kong (SAR), India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates and Vietnam.

Our team has structured, negotiated and documented transactions using techniques such as:

  • Advance payment structures
  • Countertrade
  • Cross Affiliate netting and set off
  • Export finance with Export Credit Agencies
  • Forfaiting
  • Hybrid structures
  • Islamic financing
  • Multiple offtakers
  • Political risk insurance
  • Pre-export structures
  • Project financing
  • Red clause L/Cs
  • Repackaging of receivables
  • Risk participations
  • Securitisations and "true sales"
  • Silent confirmations
  • Single offtakers
  • SPV structures
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