Tudor Plapcianu

Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

Tudor Plapcianu is a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Tier 1 structured trade and commodity finance team in the London office. Tudor is recognised as a Next Generation Partner by Legal 500 and is described by clients in Legal 500 as “knowledgeable, highly proactive”, “excellent at anticipating what a client may require” and is recommended for his “Deep trade knowledge”.

Tudor focuses on cross-border trade and commodity finance, with particular expertise in receivables and supply chain finance and structured finance and asset backed transactions in emerging and developed markets.

Tudor's transactional experience includes: receivables purchase facilities; insured receivables financings; invoice discounting and other forms of supply chain finance; inventory financing; borrowing base facilities, pre-payment facilities and receivables securitisations.

Tudor has acted for clients operating in the financial services, FinTech, energy, rail and shipping sectors, as well as sovereigns.

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Distinguishing between lending against the security of receivables and purchasing receivables

Practice Notes

This Practice Note covers the legal issues for a lender to consider when choosing between the two methods of receivables finance, being lending against security over receivables and purchasing receivables.

Banking & Finance

Receivables purchase transactions: invoice discounting and factoring

Practice Notes

This Practice Note explains the differences between invoice discounting and factoring (as well as considering the difference between disclosed and confidential facilities). It explains the process and documentation involved in relation to invoice discounting and factoring. It also looks at the dilutions and challenges to ownership of a receivable and considers the role of UK Finance.

Banking & Finance