Geraldine Butac
Senior Associate
Geraldine Butac specialises in trade and commodity finance, advising banks, specialist financial institutions and corporates on a variety of financing structures and products.
Her experience includes undertaking client secondments at two leading trade/commodity finance banks in Rotterdam and London, and she has also worked in Hong Kong.
She is recommended in the current edition of The Legal 500 UK.
- Advising a leading coal trader on a US$80 million Indonesian coal prepayment financing.
- Reviewing and redrafting a suite of template trade and commodity finance and security documents for a major French bank.
- Advising a major commodities trader on various multimillion-dollar committed and uncommitted letter of credit facilities for crude oil and refined products.
- Producing template sale and repurchase agreements in respect of oil on ship and oil in storage.
- Reviewing and redrafting a template receivables purchase agreement for a major French bank.
- Advising on an “intervention” crude oil financing to a major oil refinery.
- Reviewing and drafting template silent confirmation agreements for major Asian and French banks.
- Acting for a major multinational agribusiness on a US$100 million US corn repo.
- Advising a leading Asian bank on a silent payment guarantee for a global commodities trader.
Education
- BPP Law School, London, Legal Practice Course
- King’s College London, LL.B.
Admissions
- England and Wales, 2005