Ella Vries
Associate London
ELLA IS AN ASSOCIATE IN THE ASSETS AND STRUCTURED FINANCE GROUP.
Ella is a banking and finance lawyer based in London, focussed on asset finance, aviation finance and shipping finance.
Ella has experience of a broad range of international transactions and product types, including financings, restructurings, loan portfolio transfers, and has advised banks, financial institutions, owners and operators on all aspects of loan and security documentation. Ella also has experience of sale and purchase transactions and other commercial aspects within the maritime and aviation sectors.
Since joining the firm, Ella has worked in the London and Paris offices.
- Advising MSC Cruises on the €353m financing of a new mega cruise terminal at the Port of Miami, Florida.
- Advising Nordea Bank as agent and a syndicate of banks and funds as lenders, under export credit-supported finance for units built in China, to Prosafe SE.
- Advising Societe Generale on a term loan granted to a Norwegian SPV managed by Clarksons Platou Project Finance AS as borrower to fund the acquisition of two platform supply vessels.
- Advising Oak Hill Advisors on its acquisition of a portfolio of over 110,000 containers from Aves One AG.
- Advising Macquarie Bank Limited in relation to the securitisation of certain underlying loans for Fleetscape Capital Limited in respect of the financing of ships on lease to various lessees.
Education
2017-2018 – Legal Practice Course, BPP University
2012-2016 – Law with European Law (LLB), University of Nottingham
memberships & associations
The Law Society of England and Wales
- PressWFW advises Altera on successful Chapter 11 restructuring
- PressWFW advises MSC Cruises on €353m ECA-backed financing of PortMiami mega cruise terminal
- PressWFW advises Nordea on US$1.5bn Prosafe restructuring
- PressWFW advises EnTrust Global on Maas Capital Shipping acquisition
- PressWFW advises Societe Generale on financing of two hybrid power vessels