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Legally speaking: Brazilian commodities

20 July 2010

São Paulo-based lawyers Christian Ramos at Ramos e Zuanon Advogados and Charles Johnson at Chadbourne & Parke give Trade Finance magazine unique insight into the current health of the Brazilian commodities finance market from a legal perspective.

Read more: Brazil agribusiness SME Brazil Chadbourne & Parke RZ Advogados soft commodity finance Soy Sugar Cosan

Christian Ramos: “The whole basket of commodities are being financed and although we continue to see a good amount of work involving renegotiation and credit recovery, we’re much more involved in structuring and putting forward transactions at this point. However, the sugar sector is still on our watchlist. And I’m not talking about premium companies such as Cosan, but the mid-size and smaller mills, which still have challenges to overcome before they’re in good shape again. “We’re seeing a lot of structured deals, M&A in...


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