About me
I advise on various financing structures including corporate finance, asset finance and project finance, leasing structures and general corporate and commercial transactions.
As part of my finance practice, I work with banks, leasing houses, shipowners, energy companies and commodity traders on a wide range of transactions including bank loans, ECA-backed facilities, finance leases and trade financings.
My corporate and commercial portfolio covers amongst others the drafting and reviewing of shipbuilding contracts, charterparty agreements, management agreements, sale and purchase agreements, share acquisition agreements and shareholders’ agreements.
I’m guided by what matters most to my clients, their goals, challenges and success. The relationships I develop with my clients matter greatly to me. I take every opportunity to meet clients and offer trusted, long-term advice they can rely on I take every opportunity to meet up with and offer my expertise to clients, acting as a trusted advisor they can rely on in the long term.
My experience
- Advised Pacific Basin on its first sustainability-linked financing being a three-year unsecured revolving credit facility extended by a syndicate of international banks.
- Advised The Export-Import Bank of China (CEXIM) on a Sinosure-backed term loan facility of up to US$192m to Polsteam for the acquisition of eight lake cargo vessels.
- Advised Citibank NA, Hong Kong branch as lender and arranger on a US$32m term loan facility granted to Xtrim TVCable (based in Ecuador) for the financing of its acquisition of certain fibre optic equipment.
- Advised SPDB Financial Leasing Co., Ltd. on two sale and leaseback transactions with the Ciner Shipping group for the lease financing of eight bulk carriers.
- Advised CMB Financing Leasing on a US$648m sale and leaseback of eight vessels with the CMA CGM group.
- Advised a large working group of over 15 creditors comprising French and English banks and a PRC leasing house on maritime aspects of the debt restructuring of the French Bourbon shipping group resulting in amongst others a debt reduction of more than 1.06 billion euros.