Andrew Wood

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Based in our London office, Andrew is a partner in our top-tier Structured Trade & Commodity Finance practice, which is ranked Tier 1 by both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500. Andrew is personally ranked as a Leading Individual in trade finance by Legal 500, which describes our team as "a recognised leader in trade and commodity finance" and having a "deep and broad market knowledge".

Andrew joined Norton Rose Fulbright in 2003, qualifying into the banking department in 2005. He advises financiers (including banks, alternative financiers, DFIs, export credit agencies and other multilateral organisations), corporate borrowers, fintechs, trading companies and suppliers/producers on cross-border transactions in emerging and developed markets.

He has extensive experience in trade and commodity finance and export credit (ECA) finance structures including:

pre-export finance facilities

prepayment finance facilities (including SPV / limited recourse structures)

warehouse/inventory financing facilities

forms of ownership finance including commodity repos

borrowing base facilities

supply chain finance (including platform and non-platform based)

receivables finance/invoice discounting/factoring/forfaiting transactions

export credit finance

guarantee/letter of credit/bond issuance facilities

secured and unsecured corporate lending (bilateral and syndicated)

and regularly advises parties on the terms of sale and purchase contracts (including incoterms) for goods/commodities and ICC standard terms (UCP 600, URDG, ISP 98 etc).

Andrew has spent six months on secondment with a major UK bank.