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Diana Syziu

Diana is a partner in the Corporate and Ship Finance team and is also a qualified notary public practising in the City of London.
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Diana is an English solicitor of Senior Courts of England & Wales qualified for over ten years. She advises clients on a variety of corporate related matters, including commercial contracts, project finance, structure finance, ship finance, onshore and offshore vessels and rigs sale and acquisitions, cruise vessels, joint venture agreements, joint development agreements, finance related agreements and private equity. Diana also works very closely with the international shipping and commodities team, providing corporate and commercial support in cross-jurisdiction related matters which take up the majority of her practice.

Diana is also a qualified Notary Public appointed by royal authority through the Faculty Office (England & Wales) in practice for over ten years. Diana completed her notarial qualification at the University of Cambridge.

Diana notarises documents (private and commercial) for use in foreign jurisdictions, registered with the Faculty Office and the Notaries Society, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and various foreign embassies in the UK. She has assisted national and international clients (shipping, yacht, aviation, transactional, mergers, acquisitions, investments etc.) in over 3,000 matters during the last ten years.

Diana advises on a variety of non-contentious corporate and corporate finance matters including but not limited to asset finance, corporate acquisitions, ship sale and purchases, ship finance and re-finance, commercial agreements, company reorganisations, commercial IP contracts, franchising (franchisor and franchisee), joint venture and partnerships, commodities contracts and related security (corporate support).

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  • Experience

    • Diana was commended for the high level of expertise and responsiveness provided on a significant syndicated deal worth $500 million for Abu Dhabi’s ZMI Holdings in December 2021
    • Assisted the commodities team in an asset based security package circa $91million
    • Acted for two international shipping clients in a $300 million investment in relation to 20 new built ships-fully in charge of thorough due diligence
    • Acted for an international client to successfully set up five international representative offices in eastern Europe
    • Assisted seller group (confidential) in their recent sale of luxury cruise mv ‘Paul Gauguin’ in South Polynesia together with brand and shareholding to Ponant Group (value confidential);
    • Assisting Advanced Energy Group (ADES) on debt re-structuring and re-financing of existing facilities with their security package: deal value US$144,000,000
    • Advice to Lancashire County Cricket Club on re-financing of its entire facilities package, deal value confidential
    • Advice, full due diligence and initial Closing on the acquisition by Advanced Energy Group (ADES) of onshore drilling rigs from Weatherford Group, deal value US$287,500,000
    • Advice, closing and full registration of the acquisition by ADES of offshore drilling rigs from Nabours Group, deal value US$83,000,000 
    • Advice, closing, mortgage and other security package documentation negotiation on an extension of $160,000,000 facility (subject to English law) of ADES for four off-shore drilling rigs
  • Affiliations

    • Member of the Law Society
    • Member of the Notaries Society
    • Adviser to the British Albanian Lawyers Association
  • Languages

    • Albanian (fluent)
    • French (basic)
    • Italian (fluent)
    • Spanish (basic)

Diana Syziu's Expertise