Melissa Hoh

Melissa Hoh is Counsel in the Assets and Structured Finance group.

Her focus is in asset finance, in particular ship finance and regularly acts for banks, shipowners and financial institutions in loan, leasing and sale and purchase transactions. Melissa started her career in the Hong Kong office from 2016 to 2019 and was also previously at another leading law firm in the maritime sector before returning to the firm’s Singapore office in 2021.

Her practice is predominantly Asia-focussed with many years of experience with clients based in Shanghai, Beijing, Taiwan and Singapore. She has experience acting for both lenders and borrowers, being involved in an equal mix of bilateral and syndicated loans as well as Chinese leasing transactions.

Over the years, Melissa has developed strong and longstanding relationships with shipowners in Taiwan and Singapore. She is frequently engaged as a trusted adviser on large-scale financings, acting either for shipowners or on the lender side in connection with such transactions.

Melissa also has experience advising on upstream financing transactions involving Chinese leasing structures and has acted for lenders on ECA-backed facilities. In addition, she has particular expertise in restructuring financing and leasing arrangements to meet clients’ commercial objectives and evolving industry demands.

Beyond financing work, Melissa has been involved in charterparty negotiations and routinely advises on shipbuilding contracts and ship management agreements.

She has worked on several award-winning Marine Money of the Year transactions.

Melissa is fluent in English and Mandarin.