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Summary
Patrick Kirkby joined Watson, Farley &
Williams in November 2001 and mainly advises in the field of shipping.
He has over nine years' experience advising on a wide range of
international
matters. These include the structuring of major shipping finance,
lease and credit-wrapped projects for a wide spectrum of vessel types,
including dry cargo carriers, tankers, car carriers, FPSOs, container ships
and LNG and other product carriers as well as the negotiation of ship and
oil rig building contracts, revolving and term loan agreements and all
aspects of ship purchase, leasing and chartering.
Recent Experience
- Advising a major European ship finance
bank on a US$91.2m VLCC financing to a consortium with interests in the
exportation of oil from South America and coordinating three different
levels of finance and security
- Advising Japanese clients on a detailed
contract of affreightment for the transportation of LNG cargoes within
the framework of a UK lease financing, negotiated in detail to comply with
the requirements of carrier, shipper, cargo seller, financiers and lessor
- Advising a North European banking syndicate
on a US$434,635,200 financing to a major Russian tanker company, which
included the task of tailoring the loan documentation to meet the competing
quiet enjoyment requirements of the charterers involved in the
arrangements
- Advising on the acquisition for a client
of a significant portion of the container leasing business of a major company
exiting the container market as a result of a recent merger. This included
negotiating not only the purchase contracts but also the detailed warranties
and disclosures and the assignment arrangements in relation to the various
leases to which several thousand containers were subject. This also involved
documenting the container onward sale arrangements to a KG as well as the
production of various security documents required by the KG's financiers
- Advising on a CEXIM co-financing for the
acquisition of a series of Chinese newbuildings
- Advising a European tanker owning group
on the repackaging and new financing from a UK bank, including advising
on concurrent sale and lease-back documentation, the loan arrangements
and liaison with the builders and refund guarantors involved in the
transaction
Education and Qualifications
| 1996
| Legal Practice Course
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| 1995
| Common Professional Examination
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| 1993
| BA (Hons) Literae Humaniores, Oxford and
MA |
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