Louise Mor > Watson Farley & Williams LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Watson Farley & Williams LLP Offices
15 APPOLD STREET
LONDON
EC2A 2HB
England
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Louise Mor
Work Department
Asset Finance
Position
Louise has significant expertise in the rail and aviation sectors. Her transactional experience includes portfolio, secured debt, common terms platform, ECA-supported and Islamic financings, leasing company and asset acquisitions, operating leases and sales.
She has represented several of the world’s largest leasing companies, operators and banks and has recently acted for Alpha Trains, Ermewa, NatWest, ECGD, Euler Hermes and Goshawk.
Prior to joining the firm, Louise spent 12 years with White & Case, including three years in their Paris office. During this time, Louise was seconded to Angel Trains, where she advised on numerous aspects of their corporate and financial restructuring, prior to their sale by RBS in 2008, as well as on their day-to-day operational matters.
She is recommended for her expertise in the rail sector by legal directory Legal 500 UK.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Transport finance and leasing
(Leading partners)Drawing upon ‘an enormous wealth of knowledge and experience’ throughout the transportation sector, Watson Farley & Williams LLP‘s ‘technically impressive’ 25-partner team provides ‘pragmatic and commercial’ advice to a myriad stakeholders on an eclectic mix of asset finance transactions, ranging from relatively commoditised bilateral loans, through to heavily structured transactions, as well as advice on politically sensitive issues including as it relates to Russian sanctions. Under the leadership of the ‘technically excellent and commercially pragmatic’ Jim Bell, the firm’s aviation offering has ‘extraordinary broad experience in all aircraft finance and lease topics’, and is now the equal of its historically better-known maritime practice. Chris Mitchell , who is ‘able to structure complex legal projects’, including as it relates to debt financing in the capital markets, is also key to the team’s success, as is the ‘no nonsense’ Louise Mor (who also has significant rail expertise) and the ‘solutions focused’ Patrick Moore, who regularly advises creditors on aviation restructurings. Led from London by ‘trusted advisor’ George Macheras, and also able to call upon expertise in other key maritime centres throughout Europe and Asia, the firm remains a ‘remarkable one-stop-shop for shipping financing’, with expertise across structured financing and long term charters, new builds and second hand sale and purchase. Other key practitioners on the ship finance front include the ‘pragmatic’ Gary Walsh, who is popular among banking clients; Simon Petch , who has ‘extensive knowledge especially in the field of maritime finance and ESG related business’; Patrick Kirkby, who has ‘vast experience in shipping financing’, including on highly structured mandates; and Kate Silverstein, who provides ‘great quality advice’ to owners, lenders and charterers. Hall of fame practitioner Lindsey Keeble is now managing partner of the firm.
London > Transport > Rail
Watson Farley & Williams LLP has a large asset finance practice. It has specialists who cover a broad range of matters across areas such as financing, capital markets, corporate, dispute resolution and regulatory. Clients include lessors, banks and other financiers as well as operators, rolling stock lessors, investors and train operators. Practice head Louise Mor is recommended. Theresa Mohammed joined the team from Trowers & Hamlins LLP in July 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Transport finance and leasing London > Finance
- Rail London > Transport
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commodities disputes
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity and nuclear)
- Transport > Aviation
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Shipping
- Finance > Trade finance
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Employment > Immigration
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Transport > Rail
- Real estate > Environment
- Real estate > Planning
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £500m)
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: development