Patrick advises financial institutions, debt funds, asset managers, traders, and corporates in complex financing transactions in developed and emerging markets.
His transactional experience includes corporate loans, asset-based loans, receivables and commodity and inventory finance (using debt and title-based structures) including borrowing base, intermediations, repos, prepayments, and acquisition, project and development finance, as well as venture debt.
Experience
Representative matters
Representative matters
Advised a commodities trading company as lender and agent in relation to a syndicated term financing (and related equity investment) to an AIM-listed English E&P company to finance the development of an onshore gas field.
Advised the lenders on syndicated financing of a prepayment facility from an international commodities trading company to a metals mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Advised the lenders on a syndicated multi-jurisdictional borrowing base financing facility in respect of the import, storage and export of agricultural commodities in certain African jurisdictions including Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Tanzania.
Experience
Advised a commodities trading company as lender and agent in relation to a syndicated term financing (and related equity investment) to an AIM-listed English E&P company to finance the development of an onshore gas field.
Advised the lenders on syndicated financing of a prepayment facility from an international commodities trading company to a metals mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Advised the lenders on a syndicated multi-jurisdictional borrowing base financing facility in respect of the import, storage and export of agricultural commodities in certain African jurisdictions including Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique and Tanzania.
Advised a bank syndicate led by Deutsche Bank AG, Amsterdam Branch on several structured pre-export financings to Metinvest B.V., the holding company for the Metinvest steel production group based in the Ukraine.
Advised a bank syndicate on a limited recourse SPV prepayment financing relating to the production and sale of zinc concentrate by Nyrstar AG.
Advised a commodities trading company as lender in relation to a bilateral term facility to an African oil exploration company to finance an Egyptian oil field.
Advised an asset manager as lender to relation to a metals borrowing based facility across Germany, Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
Advised a commodity hedge fund in relation to a borrowing base facility financing goods in storage in Europe and the US and associated receivables.
Recognitions
- Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyers™ in the United Kingdom’s Ones to Watch list for Projects, 2023-2025
- Listed as a Next Generation Partner in The Legal 500 UK 2026 for Emerging Markets
Credentials
Education
Education
- University of Bristol, LL.B.
Professional admissions & qualifications
Professional admissions & qualifications
- England and Wales
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