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Skyscrapers and Sky
ENERGY AND COMMODITIES
Practice Area

Our team brings deep experience in energy including oil, gas, alternative energy, electricity, biomass, emissions trading, petroleum coke, and both thermal and metallurgical coal. This knowledge extends to all commodities products both financial instruments and physical, including the shipping and testing of coal and iron ore

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SEDA’s Energy and Commodities practice comprises a team of seasoned professionals with comprehensive expertise spanning trading, derivatives, hedging, transportation, contract negotiation (e.g., freight agreements), risk management, pricing strategies, and regulatory compliance.

SEDA provides expertise in global coal, coke, and iron ore shipments, including coal flow, transportation, and vessel management. This includes quality risk assessments and vessel risk management from the load port to the discharge port. Additionally, our team has extensive experience in overseeing contract review and approval, compliance, product quality, finance, procurement, and coal operations across multiple locations, such as terminals in the Americas. We are proficient in drafting contracts, managing quality and ore grading, sampling, testing, shipping, and optimizing iron ore usage in blast furnaces, pelletizing ore pellets, and handling ferroalloys, scrap, and pig iron. Our team is highly experienced in pricing and trading of precious metals including gold, silver and platinum both on and off exchange.


Our experts have supported clients with valuation, risk modeling, asset dispatch and utilization, transaction origination, energy market fundamentals, derivatives trading, benchmark price assessments, advanced pricing models, commodities risk management, hedging strategies, and the implementation of supporting technologies.



EXPERTISE

  • Alternative Energies

  • Energy Commodities

  • Commodities trading

  • Energy Derivatives

  • Hedging and Risk Management

  • Contract Negotiation and Funding

  • Energy Transportation

  • Energy Pricing Models

  • Agricultural Commodities

  • Precious Metals

RELATED EXPERTS

Kathryn Porter

Kathryn Porter

Bio

Managing Director

Kathryn Porter is an independent energy consultant with over 25 years’ experience of the energy and finance sectors in both leadership and technical roles. She has specific expertise in the utilities, oil and gas sectors, with finance experience spanning equities and equity derivatives, debt capital markets, M&A, loans, and risk management.

Former

Société Générale - Director, Commodities Structuring

EDF Trading - Head of Structuring & Pricing

Expertise

Utilities, Oil and Gas Equities, Debt Capital Markets, M&A, Loans

Bruno Roch

Bruno Roch

Bio

Managing Director

Bruno Roch has over 20 years of experience in energy markets covering both physical and derivatives transactions and has overseen global trading activities within Goldman Sachs and Trafigura amongst others. He is a world-class expert in Power, Gas, Dry Freight, Iron Ore, Fertilizers, Biomass, Emissions, Petroleum Coke, Thermal and Metallurgical Coal.

Former 

EuroChem and Suek - Head of Commodity Trading

Goldman Sachs - Senior Executive Director, Coal & Freight 

Expertise

Commodities ,Energy Markets, Energy Trading, Energy Infrastructure

William I. Murphy

William I. Murphy

Bio

Managing Director

William Murphy is a Senior Executive with over 15 years in global coal, coke and iron ore shipments and 10 years of coal flow, transportation, and vessel management. He is experienced in coal & coke blender, both physical and paper and a specialist in quality risk assessment and vessel risk management from load port to discharge port.

Former 

Trafigura AG - WSM Manager, Americas

SGS NORTH AMERICA - Manager, Birmingham Area Operations

Expertise

Carbon Products, Quality Risk Assessment, Vessel Risk Management

Thorvin Anderson, CFA

Thorvin Anderson, CFA

Bio

Managing Director

Thorvin Anderson, CFA is a senior energy expert with extensive knowledge of complex commodity transaction structuring, power and gas trading analysis, physical asset dispatch, and finance. His experience also includes the creation and management of Front Office analytics teams and the development of risk management frameworks.

Former

JPMorgan Chase – Executive Director Global Commodities Group 

Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. – Bear Energy - Managing Director

Expertise

Derivative and Real Option Valuation, Commodities Fundamental Analysis, Commodity Market Operation, Commodity Trading, Commodity Market Regulation

Robin Shoemaker

Robin Shoemaker

Bio

Managing Director

Robin Shoemaker has over 30 years of experience in equity research focused on the oil and gas industry. Robin’s tenure in energy research started at Lehman Brothers and included a two-year assignment as co-head of Asia Equity Research in Hong Kong. At Bear Stearns, Robin served as a Managing Director covering the oilfield services industry.

Former

KeyBanc Capital Markets - Director

Citi Investment Research - Director

Expertise

Energy Research, Oil and Gas, Oil Services and Equipment, Due Diligence

Edward J. Fraim Jr.

Edward J. Fraim Jr.

Bio

Managing Director

Edward J. Fraim Jr. has over 25 years of experience in Energy and Financial Derivatives, Futures and Options. As the former Head of ICE Proprietary Data he is an expert in derivatives trading, benchmark price valuations, complex pricing models, commodities risk management, hedging strategies, and supporting technologies.

Former

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) - Vice President, Head of ICE Proprietary Data

Refinitiv -  Head of North American Commodities & Energy Market Data Business

Expertise

Energy Derivatives, Derivative Trading, Derivative Benchmark Valuations, Commodities Risk Management, Complex Derivatives Pricing Models, Derivatives Trading Supporting Technologies

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