Global trade is in constant flux: credit moves, markets emerge and sanctions restrict. Expanding trade—in regions like Africa, the CIS and Asia Pacific—introduces both opportunity and risk. Through a deeply collaborative and personalized approach, our lawyers and professionals help you thrive in this integrated and growing industry.

When you engage our team, your vision becomes our shared mission. However you fit into the trade and export landscape—as a lender or syndicate arranger, development bank, export credit agency, trader, commodity off-taker or other market player—we work closely with you so that your business can flourish in any market, emerging or developed.

Wherever in the world your business reaches, we have the jurisdiction-specific knowledge you need to achieve the outcomes you desire. And with our broad experience in other areas such as corporate lending, secured lending, syndicated facilities and club deals, project finance and asset finance, no transaction is too large and no financial technique is too complicated.

Throughout these efforts, our focus always remains on you—your business needs, your business risks, your perspective and your aspirations. From cross-continent commodity transactions to complex pre-finance facilities, you’ll always have trusted, sophisticated and insightful counsel at your side.

Recognition

One Way to Trade (and Get Paid) Faster

March 12, 2014

Marc Lemieux, Counsel, is extensively quoted in Profit magazine

Insights

LCs, demand guarantees, negotiable instruments and COVID-19

March 16, 2020

Global: This note looks at the very limited role of the doctrine of frustration in relation to letters of credit, demand guarantees and negotiable instruments where related circumstances are affected by COVID-19. It also looks at the slightly less limited role for force majeure issues in such circumstances.

Natixis v. Marex Financial and others – lessons for commodity financiers in repos and for users of warehouse receipts

December 4, 2019

This case raises important issues for commodity financings, the use of warehouse receipts in repos of goods and for taking security over commodities in warehouses.

US unveils CAPTA List

March 22, 2019

The US has introduced the List of Foreign Financial Institutions Subject to Correspondent Account or Payable-Through Account Sanctions (the “CAPTA List”), which identifies foreign financial institutions subject to certain sanctions that restrict their access to the US financial system. The CAPTA List is not a new sanctions authority and is not part of the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s List of Specially Designated Nationals.

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Recent Press Releases

Dentons deal for Deutsche Bank named one of TXF's 'Perfect 10 Deals for 2015'

April 15, 2016

Dentons is pleased to announce that a recent deal it advised on has been recognised as one of Trade & Export Finance's (TXF) 'Perfect 10 Deals of the Year 2015'.