Ilias Tsigos
Senior Associate Athens
Ilias is a Senior Associate in the Assets & Structured Finance Group.
Ilias specialises in shipping finance transactions and advises international banks, financial institutions and US-listed companies on all aspects of syndicated and bilateral lending in respect of newbuilding and second-hand ships as well as on the documentation relating to the sale & purchase and sale & leaseback of ships and the restructurings of ship owning groups.
- Advised EnTrust Global’s Blue Ocean Funds on their US$150m sale and leaseback transaction of the two container vessels “HYUNDAI RESPECT” and “HYUNDAI HONOUR” acquired from and chartered back to two subsidiaries of Danaos Corporation.
- Advised Norway’s DNB Bank ASA, as facility agent and security agent for a syndicate of banks comprising itself, ABN AMRO Bank N.V., BNP Paribas, Danish Ship Finance and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB, in relation to a US$310m loan facility provided to Star Bulk Carriers Corp..
- Advised Star Bulk Carriers Corp. on the acquisition of 16 vessels from Augustea Atlantica SpA and York Capital Management in an all-share transaction.
Education
- 2013 – 2014 · LL.M., The City Law School, City London University
- 2009 – 2012 · LL.B., School of Law, Oxford Brookes University
memberships and associations
- Piraeus Bar Association