Alan Paterson

Ocean Partners was established in October 2004 as a result of a management buy-out from the Alcan/Pechiney Group. For more than a decade, the Ocean Partners' team has applied technical, commercial, financial, and political insight to deliver successful trading services to miners, smelters, and refiners. They bring expertise in every aspect of the business, from their backgrounds as mining engineers, geologists, metallurgists, and finance. Ocean Partners operates offices in Canada, Hong Kong, Mongolia, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States; also retaining agency representation in Australia, Chile, India, Japan, Peru, Russia, Serbia, and Turkey which assist in providing global coverage.

Ocean Partners Holdings Ltd. provides trade services to miners, smelters and refiners. Its services include agency & consulting and trade & project finance. It has operations in countries including Canada, Chile, China, Cyprus, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, Peru, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States, and retains agency representation in Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, India, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The company was founded in October 2004 and is headquartered in Maidenhead, the United Kingdom.