Watson Farley & Williams LLP

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Kavita Shah

Kavita Shah

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PARTNER IN THE ASSET FINANCE GROUP

Position

Kavita specialises in international, structured, asset and project finance and leasing transactions in the maritime sector.

She acts for a number of financial institutions and international corporations as well as shipping companies.

Kavita has a wide range of experience including the structuring of shipping finance, lease and other credit-wrapped structures, export credit backed products and project financing transactions involving a variety of maritime and offshore assets. She has also advised on the sale and/or purchase of portfolios of performing and non-performing shipping loans.

Kavita joined WFW in 2001 and has spent time in the firm’s Singapore, Paris and Athens offices, as well as on secondment with Lloyds TSB Bank in the shipping section of the Structured Asset Finance department.

She is recommended as an expert shipping finance lawyer by The Legal 500 UK which described her in 2018-19 as “attentive, methodical and user-friendly”.

Career

Trained WFW; qualified 2003; partner 2013.

Languages

Gujarati, Hindi.

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