- Ensure that skilled resources or advisers are available for negotiating individual SGs;
- Ensure that the Government negotiating team has a framework for making important and rapid decisions;
- Carefully consider inter-creditor issues;
- Carefully address financing issues such as the impact of the specific SG on the lenders step-in rights, the sharing of the security package with the lenders, the ranking of the Government claims under the SG compared to lenders' claims;
- Ensure that the needs of the hedging counterparties are taken into account in an appropriate manner.