Vassiliki Georgopoulos
Partner Athens
Vassiliki is a Partner in the Assets & Structured Finance Group
Her main areas of practice are shipping finance and other non-contentious aspects of shipping such as sale and purchase transactions, JV agreements and shipbuilding contracts. She also has an excellent reputation for non-contentious advice in the yachting industry.
Vassiliki acts for a wide variety of banks, private equity funds and other financial institutions in the structuring and restructuring of loan transactions as well as for private and public shipowning entities.
She is recognised as an up-and-coming shipping expert by leading legal directories Chambers Europe and Chambers Global. In 2019, clients told Chambers she is “very diligent, possesses deep knowledge and has extensive experience in her field of expertise, which is translated into the production of very accurate documentation and advice”.
- Advised Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch in relation to a US$180.5m term facility provided to Poseidon Containers Holdings LLC to repay and extinguish a previous secured bank debt facility.
- Advised Entrust Global Ltd in relation to a US$150m sale and leaseback transaction of two container vessels acquired from and chartered back to two subsidiaries of Danaos Corporation.
- Advised Credit Suisse AG in relation to a US$233m facility agreement to Costamare Inc. for the purpose of refinancing certain indebtedness secured on 18 ships.
- Advised Costamare on US$120m bond issuance in Greece – the first ever bond issuance in the shipping sector in Greece.
- Advised Global Ship Lease on its first sale and leaseback.
Education
- 2003 · M.Sc., International Business and Economics- University of London, Birkbeck College
- 2000 · Legal Practice Course (LPC), College of Law, Guildford
- 1998 · L.L.B., University of Kent at Canterbury
memberships & associations
- Law Society of England & Wales
- Piraeus Bar Association
- PressWFW advises Global Ship Lease on its first sale and leaseback
- PressWFW advises Costamare on US$120m bond issuance in Greece
- PressWFW advises CIT on US$34.25m refinancing facility to Globus Maritime Limited
- PressWFW advises EnTrust Global on US$150m sale and leaseback to Danaos Corporation
- PressWFW advises Deutsche Bank on US$180.5m facility to Poseidon