Marilena Kossyfa
Counsel Athens
Marilena is Counsel in the Assets & Structured Finance Group.
Marilena specialises in shipping finance, advising a wide range of international and domestic banks and other financial institutions, private equity funds, and ship owning companies on the financing of newbuild and second‑hand vessels. Her experience includes syndicated and bilateral financing arrangements, sale and leaseback transactions, as well as restructurings and loan portfolio transfers.
She also has significant expertise in the financing of superyachts.
Marilena is qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales and as a lawyer in Greece.
- Advising Danaos Corporation on the refinancing of US$1.25bn of its outstanding senior secured debt (which totalled US$1.3bn as of 31 December 2020). The deal won the Bank Debt Deal of the Year 2022 by Marine Money.
- Advising CPLP Shipping Holdings PLC on the issuance and public offering of a US$150m corporate bond on the Athens Stock Exchange, guaranteed by Capital Product Partners L.P..
- Advising CA-CIB and HCOB on US$140m financing for GSL.
- Advising Danaos Corporation on the refinancing of US$1.25bn of its outstanding senior secured debt (which totalled US$1.3bn as of 31 December 2020).
Education
- 2013-2014 · University of Southampton School of Law, LL.M. in Maritime Law
- 2012-2013 · Deree- The American College of Greece, Minor Degree in Shipping Management
- 2010-2011 · Paris X-Université Nanterre La Defense, Erasmus exchange student scholarship
- 2008-2013 · University of Athens School of Law, LL.B.
Memberships and Associations
- Qualified in England and Wales as a Solicitor (2021)
- Piraeus Bar Association
- Hellenic Maritime Law Association
- PressWFW promotes seven lawyers to counsel
- PressWFW advises First Citizens Bank on US$123m Greek shipping loan portfolio acquisition
- PressWFW advises Alpha Bank & Eksfin on financing of three newbuilding AERO type high-speed catamaran passenger vessels for Attica Group
- PressWFW advises CPLP Shipping on US$150m Greek bond issuance
- PressWFW advises CA-CIB and HCOB on US$140m financing for GSL
