Patrick is a senior associate in the firm’s global Energy & Natural Resources Group. He specialises in trade and commodity finance, and his practice covers a variety of financing structures across emerging and developed markets.
Patrick's work in the structured 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).
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 as they become more active in the trade and commodity finance space.
Patrick also advises clients on sports financings, including loan facilities in relation to transfers of football players.
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 2020, having first been recommended in 2014. He is also ranked by Legal 500 UK 2020 as a 'rising star' for Finance: Emerging Markets.
