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• Advising the arranger, a major French bank, on a US$180m revolving creditfacility to provide finance for a receivables purchase facility in favour of the stateowned Cuban oil corporation• Advising Fortis Bank and OND (the Belgian export credit agency) on a US$30mfacility to a major Cuban bank secured on tourism receivables• Advising a French bank on a US$16.5m loan facility to a sugar trader to makeadvance payments in respect of sugar contracts with Cuban exporters• Advising a US bank on US$16m buyer credit to the Government of the DominicanRepublic to finance the construction of a bridge in the Dominican Republic, withsupport from the Spanish export credit agency (CESCE)• Advising an energy trader on a structured financing of a pre-paid crude oilpurchase transaction in Ecuador• Advising an international energy trader on a proposed US$30m prepaymentagainst the export of fuel oil through an Italian major in Ecuador• Advising an oil & gas trader on the supply of LPG to Ecuador• Advising an international energy trader on the investment into a major Paraguayanimporter and distributor of hydrocarbons• Advising the owner and operator of a petroleum products storage facility in relationto various contractual matters in Paraguay• Advising an energy trader on a US$40m pre-export facility for prepayment againstthe purchase of crude oil from Peru16