Goldman Sachs has been engaged in the commodities business since 1981 and is one of the leading players in the commodities markets across a wide variety of financial and physical products. It operates a fully integrated global commodities business that is able to offer services to clients spanning derivatives risk management and advisory, physical trading and logistics and structured finance products. The Commodities Structured Finance team deploys Goldman Sachs balance sheet in commodity-linked financing solutions to clients (e.g. oil & gas companies, conventional and biofuel refiners, miners, conventional and renewable power plants, steel mills, etc.) often with integrated commodity price risk management / hedging. Transaction types include inventory financing, supply chain