Our finance team has an international reputation for delivering premium legal services and finding innovative solutions to the most complex questions.
Finance has been at the heart of our business since the very beginning. Today, as the global finance sector adapts and responds to a series of challenges – economic, political and regulatory – our team continues to find fresh approaches to our clients’ financing requirements.
Our strength lies in a mix of deep technical expertise and an intimate knowledge of our key industry sectors, Energy, Real Estate and Transportthat allows us to add real commercial value. We advise on all finance matters, including asset finance, project finance, capital markets, real estate finance, acquisition finance, ECA finance, Islamic finance and restructuring and insolvency.
We take the time to invest in relationships and currently act for more than 150 banks and financial institutions worldwide, as well as private equityinvestors and major corporates in their diverse roles as advisers, arrangers, lenders, borrowers, lessors, lessees, issuers, underwriters, custodians and trustees.
The transaction included a margin adjustment mechanism based on carbon intensity rating as an incentive for the owner to reduce carriers’ carbon emissions.
This is the first occasion when 100% of the equity in a container box ABS has been sold to third-party investors and only the second time that any equity in a container box ABS has been sold to third party investors.
Watson Farley & Williams acted as English law counsel to 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.
