Patrick's work in the commodity finance area covers a range of products, including: borrowing base, pre-export, and prepayment facilities, receivables structures (including receivables discounting and supply chain finance), and title based structures (including repos and inventory monetisation). Increasingly, Patrick works on structured finance products in the trade and commodity space, and was a leading adviser on the market’s first trade finance lending ABS program.

Patrick advises clients on a range of trade finance products and instruments (including promissory notes, bills of exchange, and letters of credit and bank guarantees) and the laws and practices relating to them. He also advises clients on issues around ‘true sale’ in connection with receivables and commodities sales and financings, on secondary market participations, on the Capital Requirements Regulation, and on default and distressed scenarios.

Patrick advises banks, traders, corporates, and increasingly, non-bank lenders, including funds.

Patrick also advises clients on sports financings, including loan and receivables purchase facilities in relation to transfers of football players, and loan facilities to football clubs secured by media payments.

Patrick is part of the firm’s global environmental, social and governance (ESG) practice. He has a particular focus on the social aspects of ESG, including sustainability, the energy transition and on ESG finance.

Patrick qualified in 2011, and his experience includes a client secondment within the commodity trade finance team at Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam Branch.

Patrick is recommended for Trade Finance by Legal 500 UK 2021, having first been recommended in 2014. He is also ranked by Legal 500 UK 2021 and 2022 as a 'rising star' for Finance: Emerging Markets.