CMS

Asset finance (including aviation and shipping finance)

Partner

Conor Warde is a partner in the Hong Kong office and leads the firm’s shipping finance practice in Asia. Conor helps lenders, lessors, investors, and corporate clients navigate their way through complicated transactions in the maritime and energy industries. He also represents a broad spectrum of clients in international financings, M&A, restructurings, and other corporate transactions across multiple industries and involving a broad range of corporate finance and investment issues, including senior and subordinated debt financings, asset-based lending transactions, and private equity investments.

Conor also has significant experience in representing owners and operators of offshore and traditional vessels and other maritime and offshore interests, primarily regarding energy-related projects, private equity and ship and other asset financing transactions, ship sale and purchase and shipbuilding contracts, international regulatory compliance, offshore drilling contracts and regulatory matters, international sanctions regimes, and pollution incident response and criminal prosecutions. Conor has been actively involved as a lawyer in the maritime industry since 2004 and has been based in Asia since 2011. He has spoken and moderated panels at numerous conferences around the world and is an active contributor to various publications and media. Conor is admitted as a solicitor/lawyer in five jurisdictions, namely England & Wales, Hong Kong, Maryland (USA), Washington DC (USA), and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Marshall Islands Quality Council of the Marshall Islands Shipping Registry. Georgetown University Alumni Admissions Program.