Christine Ezcutari > Norton Rose Fulbright > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

The global shipping practice at Norton Rose Fulbright collaborates with insurance companies, ship owners, and banks, offering comprehensive services to the cruise and ferry, industrial shipping, and offshore energy sectors. Led by banking lawyer and export credit financing expert Christine Ezcutari, the team specialises in high-value finance and leasing deals, complex restructurings, ship sales, acquisitions, and charter transactions. It also handles regulatory, antitrust, corporate, and dispute matters as part of their broader services. Other key figures in the team include Paolo Pinna, a specialist in shipping and export finance with extensive experience in complex domestic and cross-border banking and finance transactions, and Ayaka Millet, who brings expertise in French law and international financing transactions, including export financing, infrastructure, and acquisition finance.

Norton Rose Fulbright is a strong name in the asset finance field, particularly among leading banks undertaking deals in the transport, project and commodity trading areas, including in relation to Africa. The hiring of the highly regarded Kamel Ben Salah, formerly with Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I., added property finance expertise to its offering. The team also regularly advises banks on the granting of credit facilities to major corporations and handles some acquisition finance work. The team is headed by transport asset finance specialist Christine Ezcutari. Other key names in the team include Alexandre Roth and Janet Butterworth.