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
Managing Director
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
Managing Director
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
Managing Director
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
Managing Director
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
Managing Director
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.
Managing Director
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
Craig A. Fox
Managing Director
Former
Apollo Global Management - Managing Director, Petroleum Engineer
Guggenheim Partners, LLC - Director, Petroleum Engineer
Enron North America - Vice President, Technical Team
Expertise
Petroleum Reserves Determination, Exploration and Development Risk Analysis, Petroleum Economic Modeling and Analysis, Oil & Gas Operations Management