Trade and Export Finance

Our market leading team advises both lenders and borrowers ― acting for banks, commodities traders, multilateral institutions, multilateral financial institutions and development banks, export credit agencies (ECAs), and governments. And they offer trade finance capabilities that few competitors can match.

We design documentation and structures to work for you.

Representative experience

Advised Société Générale on US$155m pre-export finance facility to support Trans-Oil group’s commodities purchases (principally of Moldovan origin), storage, and processing for sale to export markets.

Advised African Export Import Bank on US$680m reserve base lending facility to Eroton to fund acquisition of onshore oil and gas extraction licence in Nigeria.

Advised International Finance Corporation in relation to its ongoing Global Trade Liquidity Programme (GTLP) and Critical Commodities Finance Programme (CCFP) initiatives.

Advised Deutsche Bank in relation to a borrowing base financing for VDM Group, a metals producer based in Germany.

Hogan Lovells Events

Insurance Webinar Series: Sanctions - Key developments in the Insurance sector

9 November 2023 | 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. (GMT)

Since February 2022, an unprecedented raft of sanctions and restrictive measures have been imposed in a coordinated bid to ramp up the pressure on Russia. The impact on participants in the...

Press releases

Hogan Lovells advises UK government on £40bn Energy Markets Financing Scheme

21 October 2022

London, 19 October 2022 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells has advised HM Treasury on the Energy Markets Financing Scheme (EMFS), an innovative and bespoke scheme to be run jointly with...

News

Hogan Lovells guides IDB Invest in US$40 million Honduras textiles investment

06 July 2022

New York, Mexico City, 1 July, 2022 — Global law firm Hogan Lovells advised IDB Invest as it granted a US$40 million financing package to Elcatex and San Juan Textiles, both members...

Sponsorships and Speaking Engagements

GTR Africa 2022 Cape Town

10-11 March 2022

We are delighted to be sponsoring the GTR Africa 2022 event, which is taking place as a hybrid event from March 10-11 in Cape Town and virtually.

Press releases

Hogan Lovells welcomes the New Year with 27 new partner and 71 new counsel promotions

05 January 2022

London and Washington, D.C., 5 January 2022 – Global law firm Hogan Lovells today announced that 27 of its people have been promoted to partner effective 1 January across a network of ...

Hogan Lovells Events

WTO IP rights: The future of products combating COVID-19

Tuesday, June 15, 2021; 10:00 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. EDT; 2:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. GMT; 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. CEST

The Biden Administration recently announced that it would support the request for a World Trade Organization (WTO) waiver of intellectual property (IP) rights under the WTO Agreement on...

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