Olivier Bazin

Olivier leads the Restructuring and Finance team in Geneva and is head of the firm's global Banking and Finance practice. With a particular focus on commodities trading and shipping, he regularly advises trading houses, corporates and financial institutions on their bilateral, club and syndicated financings (transactional trade finance, borrowing base, RCF, guarantee and LC facilities, prepayments, margin loans, project finance, export finance and reserve-based lending), and risk transfers through discounting, risk purchase, sub-participations, securitisations and portfolio sales. Olivier also advises on collateral management and warehouse arrangements, inventory finance and repos. His practice covers transactional "new money" deals as well as debt restructuring, enforcement and fraud (civil and criminal). Olivier also advises clients on shipping transactional matters. Prior to HFW Olivier was at BNP Paribas (Suisse) SA where he held legal and commercial positions.