ITFA – Introducing the Conference Speakers in Warsaw – Geoffrey Wynne

The ITFA Board is excited to announce that preparations for the 43rd Annual Trade and Forfaiting Conference are well on track to ensure another memorable ITFA event. To register on-line, to view the conference programme and for any other informative details, please click here.

It is with great pleasure that we introduce Geoffrey Wynne, head of Sullivan & Worcester’s London office and also head of its Trade & Export Finance Group. He has extensive experience in banking and finance, specifically trade and structured trade and commodity finance, corporate and international finance, asset and project finance, syndicated lending, equipment leasing and workouts and finance restructuring.

Geoff is one of the leading trade finance lawyers and has advised extensively many of the major trade finance banks, multilateral financers and companies around the world on trade and commodity transactions in virtually every emerging market including CIS, Far East, India, Africa and Latin America. He has worked on many structured trade transactions covering such diverse commodities as oil, nickel, steel, tobacco, cocoa and coffee.  He has also advised on ownership structures and repos for commodities and receivables financings.

Geoff sits on the editorial boards of a number of publications and is a regular contributor and speaker at conferences. He is also the editor of and contributor to The Practitioner’s Guide to Trade and Commodity Finance published by Sweet & Maxwell and A Guide to Receivables Finance, a special report from TFR published by Ark. In Chambers and Partners 2015 Geoff is ranked a Tier 1 lawyer for Commodities: Trade Finance.

During the ITFA 43^rd Annual Trade and Forfaiting Conference, Geoff will discuss Master Participation Agreements with particular reference to the BAFT formats. He will look at current issues both regulatory and practical and will look at suggested changes to improve the form of the BAFT MRPA.

We look forward to welcoming Geoff in Warsaw!