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LMD TRADING & ADVISORY

Connecting trade, capital and opportunities.

Structured finance and advisory for companies financing cross-border trade, raising capital and expanding into Vietnam.

Vietnam market knowledge. International perspective.

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Connectivities · Solutions · ExecutionsTrade · Capital · Counterparties

01 / OUR EXPERTISE

Clear solutions. Practical execution.

We work on transactions where the structure, the counterparties and the execution decide whether a deal closes.

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01

Structured trade finance

Prepayment, pre-export and receivables facilities, including SBLC-backed structures, sized and secured around the cash flow of the underlying trade.

PREPAYMENT / PRE-EXPORT / RECEIVABLES

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02

Commodity finance

Financing and offtake structures that link physical commodity flows to producers, traders, end buyers and the right funders.

PHYSICAL FLOWS / OFFTAKE / WORKING CAPITAL

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03

Debt arranging & capital markets

We source lenders and investors for loans, guaranteed facilities and bond placements, and work alongside the client from preparation through negotiation to signing.

LOANS / GUARANTEED FACILITIES / BONDS

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04

Strategic advisory

Getting a transaction ready, positioning it with the right counterparties and structuring it across borders, particularly for businesses entering or expanding in Vietnam.

READINESS / POSITIONING / CROSS-BORDER

02 / OUR APPROACH

From the underlying transaction to the financing solution.

Understand the commercial reality. Build a credible structure. Stay involved until drawdown.

01

Understand

We start with the trade or project, the borrower's financial position and what each party needs from the deal, before any funder is approached.

02

Structure

We prepare the term sheet, security package and credit narrative in the form lenders and investors expect to see.

03

Execute

We approach the right funders, support negotiations and stay involved through documentation and drawdown.

03 / EXPERIENCE

Banking experience. Commercial perspective.

LMD is led by a banker with two decades in structured finance, trade and commodity finance, and debt capital markets.

USD 300m++

Aggregate structured and trade financing facilities arranged by our principal

20 years

Experience across structured finance, trade, commodities and DCM

Counterparties

Facilities arranged with leading international commodity houses, alongside financial institutions and private credit funders.

Figures are approximate and unaudited, and refer to transactions arranged by LMD’s principal. Past results do not predict future outcomes. Facilities include SBLC-backed, pre-export and prepayment structures. Counterparty names are confidential and available to qualified parties under NDA.

04 / NETWORK & REACH

Local understanding. International connections.

Funders and commodity counterparties sit in different markets and expect different things from a deal. We connect the right parties and present each transaction in the terms they need.

Capital markets network

Funders and investors across Singapore, Hong Kong, London and the United States.

Commodity market connections

Counterparties in the Middle East, Europe, Australia and China.

Vietnam market knowledge

Hands-on knowledge of Vietnamese banks, corporate borrowers and the local regulatory and documentation requirements.

Get in Touch

Start with the transaction.

Tell us about the opportunity, the parties involved and your timeline. We respond to qualified enquiries directly.

Please do not send confidential information until an NDA is in place.

Funders: Tell us your mandate and we will share suitable transactions under NDA.

contact@lmd-advisory.com