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Maritime Finance
Shipping finance has been a core practice since the firm was founded. Our shipping finance expertise and commercial approach to business, has brought many accolades from others in the sector. It has also brought a string of awards for our work in leasing, asset and trade finance.
For many, Watson, Farley & Williams is the world's leading ship finance firm. Legal 500 (an independent guide to UK law firms) quoted our shipping finance practice as being “efficient and impressive... acts for a substantial number of large shipowners, operators and banks...”
Our finance lawyers operate across both private and public international finance markets working closely with a broad client base. Our clients include more than 150 international banks and financial institutions, corporations, governments and governmental agencies who collectively dominate the world's shipping markets. As lenders, borrowers, issuers, underwriters, arrangers, custodians and trustees, their requirements are varied.
We provide incisive, commercially driven advice on every aspect of domestic and international ship finance transactions including:
- newbuilding and second-hand ship financing
- domestic and cross-border finance leasing
- structured financing (including the securitisation of
- transportation and newbuilding receivables)
- operating leases and other off-balance sheet financing
- full pay-out lease and hire purchase financing
- public and private offerings of equity and debt and related stock
- exchange listings
- credit enhancement structures
- taxation
- syndication, securitisation and asset sales
- workouts.
Richard Dibble, London
Mei Lin Goh, Singapore
Dr. Clemens Hillmer, Hamburg
Jonathan Kellett, London
Nigel Moss, Paris
Michael O'Donnell, London
George Paleokrassas, Piraeus
Frances Steel, London
Nigel Thomas, London
Mike Vernell, London
Alfred Yudes, New York
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