S&W Breakfast: Drafting documentation to diminish risk

Ross Crear

Reporter

Sullivan & Worcester's partner Geoffrey Wynne and trainee Ali Siddiqui explore the ways lenders can mitigate risk through the careful drafting of loan documentation. The latest edition of S&W’s Trade Finance Breakfast Seminar touches on Libor and Basel IV, as well as the current need to expand sanction clauses in Letters of Credit.

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