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gunnercooke brings together experienced lawyers across all corporate and commercial disciplines. Every gunnercooke partner has minimum of 10,000 hours’ practising experience, which ensures that every client is advised by a trusted advisor or a team of trusted advisors who understand how to help them to navigate their legal issue. We call it delivering ‘peace of mind’.
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gunnercooke is an international firm with 12 offices globally including the US, Germany, CEE and Scotland, and with further plans for growth in the coming years. These offices have enhanced the existing in-house capability of our dedicated international teams and dual qualified experts that cover China and Hong Kong, Spain, France, Italy, Brazil and Portugal. Our team has experience working across 101 different countries, speaking 30 languages and are dual-qualified in 15 jurisdictions. Our expertise means we can offer large teams to carry out complex cross-border matters for major international clients.
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gunnercooke is a challenger law firm. It challenges the way that legal services are delivered to clients. It challenges the way that lawyers balance their lives. It challenges the way our communities are served by those of us more fortunate. Most of all, it gives lives back to our lawyers and enables them to design their life as they wish to live it – which we believe enables them to deliver a brilliant service to their clients. And it works. Today we are one of the UK’s leading commercial law firms, as measured by our clients, with a Net Promoter Score of on average +84.
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Commodities & Trade Finance
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My primary contact is Marc Weisberger and his de-escalating approach and well-considered advice have been invaluable. He is always available to talk, chat and respond to email and make us feel like we are his only client.
Legal 500 2022
Expertise
Marc has over 20 years of experience in commodities trading, finance and investment and is part of gunnercooke’s Chambers-ranked Commodities and Trade Finance team. He has held both in house and private practice positions. Marc’s clients include senior management of trading houses, banks and investment funds. His track record covers transactions and dispute resolution in the energy, metals and softs markets.
Marc Advises
- Trading Companies
- Trade Finance Banks
- Investment Funds
Experience Highlights
- Advised an international commodity trader on a pre-export finance facility for the production of copper concentrates in Central Africa.
- Advised the European office of a US-based alternative trade finance lender on its facilities with UK and European borrowers.
- Structured and managed equity and credit investments by an international commodity trader in natural gas distribution companies in the UK and Europe.
- Led the restructuring of a steam and power generation unit supplying a major UK oil refinery.
- Managed global physical and derivative client exposures to insolvent counterparties in the oil, metals and softs markets.
- Structured precious metals trading arrangements for a European bank.
- Advised on the syndication of a sugar pre-pay structure by the US branch of an Australian bank.
Career History
Previous Law Firms
- Holman Fenwick Willan, Partner
- Clyde & Co, Solicitor
Previous Businesses
- Akoris Trading Limited
- Bank Leumi (UK) plc
- Alaska Metals
- Glencore plc
Education
- London School of Economics, LLM
- University of Cambridge, MA, Law
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For further advice please contact us for a consultation.
UK Contact
+44 (0)3330 143 401 info@gunnercooke.comGermany Contact
+49 30 220 131-000 centralservices@gunnercooke.de