With its roots in the maritime sector, particularly in relation to litigation and commercial matters, Hill Dickinson LLP has strong industry knowledge which it has leveraged to good effect in terms of a growing commercial shipping and offshore transactional offering. Roderick Palmer is 'very knowledgeable about maritime law and maritime finance' for a borrower-focused client base that includes containers, dry bulk carriers and offshore drilling vessels. Panos Pourgourides, who is the other main senior partner, has a focus on yacht finance and is lauded by both banks and borrowers for his 'superb commercial acumen and technical skills’.
Testimonials
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'They are very solutions focused and really help to get transactions completed whilst being understandably correct on legal procedure and formalities where appropriate.’
'Panos Pourgourides and Roderick Palmer are both very knowledgeable about maritime law and maritime finance in particular.’
‘Panos Pourgourides has superb commercial acumen and technical skills.’
Key clients
- ADES Arabia
- Advanced Energy Systems
- Bank of America
- BB Energy
- Berge Bulk
- BNP Paribas
- BORE
- Chailease Finance
- Close Brothers
- First Ocean
- G Adventures
- Government of Oman
- HSBC
- Intership
- Investec
- J Marr Seafoods
- JP Morgan
- Lavinia Corp
- Lomar
- Lombard North Central plc
- MartI Shipmanagement
- Mashreqbank PSC
- Neu Seeschiffahrt GmbH
- Oil Chart
- Polstream
- Range Shipping
- Riyad Bank
- Samsung Heavy Industries
- Siem Shipping
- Socar
- Spielthoff’s
- UML
- Zakher Marine International Inc
Work highlights
- Acting for Siem Shipping in the sale of RUSADIR into a Spanish tax lease structure and related matters.
- Acting for General Ore in its acquisition, sale and leaseback of three VLOCs.
- Acting for Hornblower in its UK group restructuring and debtor-in- possession financing.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Roderick Palmer, PanosPourgourides