Lending to overseas borrowers
When lending to an overseas borrower a lender will need to consider a number of matters, and should take advice from suitably experienced local lawyers.
Each transaction will have its own peculiarities but set out below are some of the factors that a lender should consider in a typical cross-border financing transaction. The focus in this briefing paper is on bilateral asset backed financing rather than on “big-ticket” syndicated or project financing to major overseas borrowers.