Norton Rose Fulbright

Sophie Polisena is an asset finance lawyer based in Singapore, focusing primarily on the shipping and offshore oil and gas sectors, with experience in aviation transactions also.

Sophie has a broad range of experience acting for international shipping and project financing banks, owners, operators and other financial institutions in syndicated and bilateral debt facilities, debt restructuring and ship sale and purchase transactions. She has extensive experience with the Chinese sale and leaseback market and advising Korean shipping companies and lenders, and is also very familiar working with the Singapore, Marshall Islands and Liberian ship registries.

In the past two years, Sophie has become a lead Associate in relation to our work in respect of LIBOR cessation. She has advised multiple banks and syndicates of lenders in relation to various aspects of LIBOR cessation as well as completing client-facing knowledge-related tasks, including being filmed for the LIBOR Transition Asia video series that the firm recorded.

Sophie is a non-practising Barrister, and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 2013.