Commercial Broker · Dubai
We design and execute complex trade and settlement structures across the GCC, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa — where conventional banking channels are insufficient and execution depends on relationships, jurisdictional fluency, and structural creativity.
Track Record
We work under non-disclosure on most mandates. The following references are anonymised at the level our counterparts have authorised.
Precious metals corridor · Russia → UAE
Structured and executed approximately 50 cross-border transactions involving the movement of more than five tonnes of gold from Russian refineries to UAE-based buyers over a six-month period. The mandate covered counterparty due diligence, multi-jurisdictional settlement, logistics, and compliance documentation.
Grain · Russia → Iraq
Acted on the structuring and settlement side of a Black Sea origin wheat shipment to an Iraqi state-aligned buyer. Coordinated documentary, logistical, and payment architecture across three jurisdictions.
Energy & capital goods · Russia ↔ Vietnam
Engaged at principal level on a claim resolution mandate between a major Russian industrial group and a Vietnamese state energy company. The transaction did not close due to the principal's strategic position, but the engagement reflects the access at which our practice operates. Concurrent direct working dialogue with PV Gas (Vietnam) and major Russian gas exporters on long-term cooperation frameworks.
Geography
Our practice is concentrated in jurisdictions where we maintain direct, senior-level relationships — not theoretical coverage.
Operational base
Settlement, structuring, and licensing infrastructure. Active engagement with regional banking and trading counterparts.
Senior-level access
Direct working dialogue with government, state energy (PV Gas), and private industrial counterparts. Inbound and outbound flows.
G2G channels
Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Angola, Sudan. Long-standing institutional relationships at senior government level. Mandates typically involve sovereign or quasi-sovereign counterparts, infrastructure, and resource off-take.
Project basis
China, India, Turkey, Bahrain, Thailand. Engaged on a transaction-by-transaction basis where our network adds structural value.
Practice areas
Multi-jurisdictional sale-and-purchase architectures for physical commodities and capital goods, with particular focus on cases where direct banking is constrained. We build the legal, financial, and logistical structure of the deal end-to-end.
Multi-currency, multi-bank settlement chains designed around the operational realities of our clients' jurisdictions — including national-currency, dirham, yuan, and gold-backed structures.
Origination and execution of transactions involving state buyers, state sellers, and state-aligned counterparts. Particular depth in West and East Africa and Southeast Asia.
Physical trade, brokerage, and structuring across precious metals, grain, fertilisers, oil products, and natural gas / LNG.
Claim resolution, pre-closing restructuring, and cross-border dispute mediation where commercial logic still permits a transaction.
Insights
Short, dated analytical notes on cross-border flows, settlement infrastructure, and emerging-market developments relevant to our practice.
April 2026
Over 84% of Russia–Africa transactions now bypass the dollar and euro. The shift is real, but the structural ceiling — Russia's $27B trade footprint vs China's $150B — sets the limits of the corridor.
April 2026
Despite political momentum, rupee settlements never reached operational scale. The corridor has migrated to dirham via the UAE and yuan via mainland China.
April 2026
The COCOBOD crisis in Ghana, supply contraction in Côte d'Ivoire, and the emergence of Nigerian counter-trade structures have reshaped the cocoa corridor.
Contact
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Office
Office 23-2501, Al Mudhali Tower
Business Bay, Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Direct
+971 50 527 9506 (WhatsApp Business)
info@gemini-cb.ae
