PRACTICE OVERVIEW
Financing & Trade
Trade finance is a form of financing used when financing is required by buyers and sellers to assist them with a trade cycle funding gap. Buyers and sellers also can also choose to use trade finance as a form of risk mitigation. Cross border trading transactions, by their nature, involve risks. We can assist clients in identifying the appropriate measures to reduce that risk and drafting documents to implement those risk reduction measures.
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