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Vedder Price
1633 Broadway 31st Floor
New York, New York 10019
NEW YORK
United States

Position

Associate

Career

Mr. Geager focuses his practice on maritime and international finance, secured lending and corporate matters, assisting clients in the shipping and maritime industry with complex domestic and cross-border financings and corporate governance and formation matters. His clients include financial institutions, funds, joint ventures, shipping companies and energy companies.

Mr. Geager has extensive experience in all aspects of large scale vessel financings and refinancings, representing both lenders and borrowers. He has acted as lead New York counsel and as local counsel for numerous offshore financings, advising on aspects of U.S., Marshall Islands, Liberian and Vanuatu law.

Education

  • Georgetown University, B.S., 2010
  • St. John’s University School of Law, J.D., 2015

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Transport > Shipping: finance

(Rising stars)

John Geager – Vedder Price

As ‘one of the go-to firms in the industry‘, Vedder Price‘s global transportation finance team regularly acts for lenders, borrowers, lessors, lessees, shipbuilders, marine terminal operators, owners and charterers on structuring major maritime and offshore finance deals. The group advises on a broad range of maritime and offshore assets, including cargo and passenger transportation vessels, intermodal containers, chassis, barges, terminal facilities, ferries, and offshore construction and oil exploration vessels. It also has extensive experience in workouts and restructurings, and is additionally sought out for its expertise in maritime and offshore construction contracts, and ship registration and mortgage recordation laws in the US, the Marshall Islands, Liberia and Vanuatu. In New York, John Bradley is a specialist in cross-border marine finance structures, the ‘responsive and experiencedJohn Imhof Jr is experienced in a range of financings, and associate John Geager consistently advises on large-scale vessel financings and refinancings. Geoffrey Kass chairs the firm’s global transportation finance group from the Chicago office.