What kinds of commodities do you advise on?

Physical trade across metals and minerals, agricultural products and energy, together with the financing and corporate structures that support trading businesses.

Which trade corridors do you cover?

Instructions are accepted across Morocco and North Africa, Switzerland, Dubai and the UAE, and South East Asia, drawing on sixteen years of practice in Dubai, London, Mumbai, Fiji and Auckland.

How is confidentiality handled on a trading mandate?

Entirely. Direct contact details are withheld by design; enquiries are submitted through a secure form, stored privately and never shared. Many trading mandates are commercially sensitive and are treated with the utmost secrecy.

Morocco · Switzerland · Dubai · South East Asia

Commodity trading counsel, from contract to cargo to close.

Nuzhat Jahan advises producers, trading houses, financiers and high‑net‑worth principals on physical commodity trade — sale and purchase documentation, offtake and prepayment structures, trade finance security and counterparty diligence — with complete confidentiality at the centre of every mandate.

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Where a trading mandate needs counsel.

Physical trade contracts

Drafting and negotiating sale and purchase agreements for metals, minerals, agricultural products and energy — INCOTERMS allocation, quality and quantity clauses, title and risk, demurrage and force majeure.

Offtake & supply arrangements

Long-term offtake, tolling and supply frameworks between producers, traders and end users, structured to withstand price volatility and delivery disruption.

Trade & commodity finance

Prepayment facilities, borrowing base structures, letters of credit and receivables arrangements — including the security package over cargo, inventory and receivables.

Counterparty & sanctions diligence

Comprehensive legal, regulatory and reputational diligence on counterparties, vessels and payment routes, with sanctions and AML screening before cargo or capital moves.

Disputes & recovery strategy

Strategy on quality claims, non-delivery, documentary discrepancies and arbitration under LMAA, GAFTA, FOSFA and DIFC-LCIA rules, coordinated with local counsel.

Trade corridors

Following the flow of goods and capital.

Morocco & North Africa

Commodities trading structures, offtake arrangements and cross-border trade documentation for producers and traders operating out of North Africa.

Switzerland

Trading-house and banking relationships in the Geneva and Zug corridors, with the financing and private wealth structures that sit behind them.

Dubai & the UAE

DMCC and free-zone trading entities, Gulf-facing trade finance and regional distribution and logistics arrangements.

South East Asia

Trade flows into and out of Singapore and the wider region, including joint ventures and acquisitions of trading platforms.

Common questions

Working on commodities matters.

What kinds of commodities do you advise on?: Physical trade across metals and minerals, agricultural products and energy, together with the financing and corporate structures that support trading businesses.
Which trade corridors do you cover?: Instructions are accepted across Morocco and North Africa, Switzerland, Dubai and the UAE, and South East Asia, drawing on sixteen years of practice in Dubai, London, Mumbai, Fiji and Auckland.
Do you advise on trade finance as well as the trade contract?: Yes. Prepayment facilities, borrowing base lending, letters of credit and the security package over cargo, inventory and receivables are advised on alongside the underlying sale and purchase documentation.
How is confidentiality handled on a trading mandate?: Entirely. Direct contact details are withheld by design; enquiries are submitted through a secure form, stored privately and never shared. Many trading mandates are commercially sensitive and are treated with the utmost secrecy.

Complimentary resource

Commodity Trading Contracts Checklist.

A practitioner’s pre-signature review list for physical commodity transactions — the ten areas where trade contracts, financing and sanctions diligence most often fail. Prepared by Nuzhat Jahan.

Parties, capacity & signing authority
Goods, quality, quantity & inspection
Price, payment instruments & currency
INCOTERMS, delivery, laytime & demurrage
Trade finance & the security package
Sanctions, AML and counterparty diligence
Insurance & risk transfer
Termination, default & close-out
Governing law, arbitration & confidentiality
Execution and post-signature date diary

PDF · 3 pages · 50 checkpoints

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