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Watson Farley & Williams LLP

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Watson Farley & Williams LLP‘s group has a particular focus on transactional, financing, litigious and corporate shipping matters. The team acts on the full spectrum of financings, including JOLCO, asset finance, and sustainability backed loan-related matters. Its transactional work includes restructurings and acquisitions. The team’s client base consists of several major financial institutions, banks, and shipping companies. Hong Kong-based maritime finance specialist Madeline Leong, Bangkok-based Steven Burkill and international disputes expert Sumeet Malhotra all oversee the practice. Andrew Nimmo is experienced in offshore oil and gas matters, and Lizzie Roe is worthy of note also.

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  • ‘Lizzie Roe and Andy Wilson are extremely proactive and use previous experiences with our own and other ING teams to find satisfying compromises.’

  • ‘WFW has an established reputation for its strength in the shipping sector, its representation of its client's interests, delivery of innovative transaction structuring and its advisory and engagement work regarding communication of market developments.’

  • ‘Madeline Leong always provides the highest level of client representation, her advisory, structuring and negotiations of shipping-related issues and banking/finance are the best in class and she sets the benchmark and standard for achieving the most beneficial outcome for her clients.'

  • 'Madeline Leong has secured WFW as the principal and preferred legal firm for our company.'

Key clients

  • ING Bank N.V., Singapore Branch
  • Credit Agricole Asia Shipfinance Limited
  • Standard Chartered Bank
  • Oversea- Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
  • Berge Bulk
  • BW Group
  • BNP Paribas
  • Armada 98/2 Pte. Ltd.
  • Oka Tanker Pte Ltd

Work highlights

  • Advised BNP Paribas on US$1,170m JOLCOs backed by Chinese ECA SINOSURE arranged for Seaspan Corporation.
  • Advised ING Bank N.V. as agent and security agent and ING Bank N.V., Tokyo Branch as bank and mandated lead arranger on a US$127m sustainability-linked JOLCO.
  • Advised Armada 98/2 Pte. Ltd., a joint venture between Shapoorji Pallonji and Bumi Armada, on the project documents and financing for the conversion, refurbishment, delivery and chartering of an FPSO for the KG 98/2 FPSO project offshore India.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Andrew Nimmo

Andrew Nimmo

Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Andrew specialises in the offshore oil & gas and maritime sectors, where he advises on project and asset financings, leasing transactions and joint venture structures and on a wide variety of commercial oil & gas and shipping documentation, including charterparties, construction/conversion contracts, EPCI contracts, O&M contracts, PSCs/RSCs and JOAs, service agreements and asset sale and purchase contracts. He acts for a wide variety of contractors, sponsors, owners and operators as well as financiers (international banks, private equity funds and other financial institutions) in relation to offshore production, storage and drilling assets, support vessels and other offshore oil and gas and shipping assets. He has been based in Singapore since 2004.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Madeline Leong, Steve Burkill, Sumeet Malhotra

Other key lawyers

Andrew Nimmo, Lizzie Roe, Andy Wilson

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