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David Leggott
Partner Corporate & Finance
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Chambers UK 2025David is a top-notch lawyer.
David is a partner in the Banking practice at Hogan Lovells in London, focusing on trade and commodity finance. He is consistently recognised as a leading lawyer in this area by Chambers and Legal 500. He has extensive experience advising banks and trading companies on trade finance structures across the globe, particularly in emerging markets such as CIS, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.
David's practice covers financings on a diverse range of commodities such as oil, steel, zinc, copper, soybeans, tobacco, and cocoa. He also supports the work of various Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) operating in the trade and commodity finance space. Additionally, David has significant experience and knowledge in relation to supply chain finance techniques and export financing (ECA-backed finance).
Legal 500 UK 2024David Leggott has consistently provided excellent advice and service over the last four years or so that we have been working together. Unflappable, he handles negotiations with others with a pragmatic touch, working for solutions which work for us and for our counterparts.
Representative experience
Citibank, N.A., London Branch in relation to a US$1,600,000,000 Revolving Borrowing Base Finance Facility for Preem AB, Sweden
Deutsche Bank, Amsterdam Branch (as Co-ordinating Mandated Lead Arranger) and others in relation to a pre-export finance facility for KAZ Minerals Group
ING Bank N.V. as Co-ordinating Mandated Lead Arranger and others in relation to a €600 million revolving credit facility with Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK)
The Co-ordinating Mandated Lead Arranger on a Hermes-backed export credit facility for a petrochemicals company to finance the construction of an ethylene production unit
International Finance Corporation in relation to their Global Trade Liquidity Programme initiative launched in April 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in relation to US$1.5 billion limited recourse prepayment facility for Trafigura Group
Société Générale as Mandated Lead Arranger in relation to a pre-export syndicated loan financing for Trans-Oil Group, Moldova
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- LPC (distinction), Nottingham Law School, 2001
- LL.B., University of Warwick, 1999
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18 May 2021