Baker McKenzie

Baker McKenzie‘s trade and export finance practice predominantly handles high-value, cross-border and complex transactions, leveraging the firm’s global footprint and its deep relationships with lenders, export credit agencies, commodity traders, multilateral institutions and corporate borrowers. The team, led by Luka Lightfoot, handles the full spectrum of trade finance work from ECA-covered export financings and commodity-based financings to borrowing base facilities, pre-export financings, and large-cap syndicated loans. Jeremy Levy– from the firm’s structured capital markets group- focuses on the more structured trade finance deals, such as invoice discounting, receivables securitisation, and factoring deals, working frequently with major platform providers. Philip Thomson, who leads at the firm’s energy transition division, oversees trade finance deals in areas such as sustainable aviation fuel and carbon capture products. As an energy transactional lawyer with experience in commodity-linked finance, he is often involved in pre-export financing trades. Lightfoot recently assisted Standard Chartered with a $111m Islamic financing to the Republic of Senegal to support the installation of 50,000 solar-powered streetlamps in rural areas.