Finance & Commodities

Еnergy, mining & metals and softs

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Skill and Experience

London and Geneva traditions from leading firms and trading houses

EMEA dynamism and ambition

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We work on commercial, finance, corporate and compliance matters

Bilateral trade finance, guarantees and repo facilities, syndicated loans, borrowing bases, receivables finance, offtakes and prepayments, marketing and distribution agreements, throughput and logistics contracts

From a CPT purchase to a long term syndicated prepayment
From an L/C line to a Borrowing Base
From a minority stake to setting up country business
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Key people

Roman Chapaev
finance, corporate and commodities counsel
He has extensive experience in the commodities markets, including oil, metals and softs across Africa, the Americas, Europe and the CIS
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Roman works on commercial, corporate and finance transactions for traders and banks, including long-term off-takes, warehouse / throughput agreements, all types of prepayment, trade finance and borrowing base facilities, acquisition financings, share purchase and option agreements and complex debt restructurings

He also provides advice on regulatory and compliance matters, such as derivatives, anti-dumping and competition, collective investments schemes / alternative investment funds, financial promotion and data protection

Roman has recently worked with fintech projects, advising on securities markets legislation and structuring the business

His professional background includes English and US law firms in London, acting as consultant for a multilateral development bank and commercial counsel in Geneva for a major independent commodities trading house

He holds LLM (MGIMO, Moscow) and LLM (QM, London) degrees and PhD in Banking and Finance from the University of London. He has contributed to published works on financial markets, corporate governance and arbitration

He is admitted as solicitor of England and Wales

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