Louise Mor > Watson Farley & Williams LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Watson Farley & Williams LLP
15 APPOLD STREET
LONDON
EC2A 2HB
England
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Work Department

Asset Finance

Position

Louise has significant expertise in the rail and aviation sectors. Her transactional experience includes portfolio, secured debt, common terms platform, ECA-supported and Islamic financings, leasing company and asset acquisitions, operating leases and sales.

She has represented several of the world’s largest leasing companies, operators and banks and has recently acted for Alpha Trains, Ermewa, NatWest, ECGD, Euler Hermes and Goshawk.

Prior to joining the firm, Louise spent 12 years with White & Case, including three years in their Paris office. During this time, Louise was seconded to Angel Trains, where she advised on numerous aspects of their corporate and financial restructuring, prior to their sale by RBS in 2008, as well as on their day-to-day operational matters.

She is recommended for her expertise in the rail sector by legal directory Legal 500 UK.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Finance > Transport finance and leasing

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Louise MorWatson Farley & Williams LLP

With ‘impressive depth’ at both partner and associate level, Watson Farley & Williams LLP has the resources and expertise to provide ‘tailored legal solutions’ to stakeholders on financing and leasing across the full swathe of transportation assets. Shipping is in the firm’s DNA, and acting on its own as well as drawing upon support from lawyers based in key international maritime centres, including Singapore, Hamburg and Athens, the team, under the guidance of George Macheras, is involved in many of the largest and most sophisticated cross-border financings in the market. Kavita Shah has an excellent grounding in both new money and refinancing work for banks and operators and acted alongside Macheras for various banks on the unwinding of their financings to a Russian state-owned shipping company. A ‘trusted, kind and gentle adviser’, Kate Silverstein has developed a strong grounding advising LNG operators, as well as handling conventional shipping matters. ‘A fountain of knowledge on all things aviation finance’, Jim Bell has continued to grow that side of the practice, which sees instructions from an expanding roster of banks, lessors and manufacturers. The ‘exceptional’ Chris Mitchell is ‘at the top of his game’ handling complex financings which use commercial and capital markets debt to facilitate the delivery of new airlines and portfolio acquisitions, inter alia. Other key practitioners include the ‘commercially astute’ Patrick Moore, whose broad palette of asset finance matters includes helicopter financings; the ‘effortlessly capable’ Jane Keith; Lindsey Keeble, who still handles some maritime finance work alongside her duties as managing partner; Gary Walsh, who specialises in maritime asset finance; and the ‘very insightful’ Louise Mor, who has expertise in the rail sector. As well as the team’s fee-earning work, it also recently developed the well-received Global Aviation Resource Index, an online legal analytics tool.

London > Transport > Rail

Spearheaded by Louise Mor, the rail offering at Watson Farley & Williams LLP covers a broad range of issues from financing and capital markets work, to advising on dispute resolution and employment matters. It has a large asset finance practice, and continues to be busy advising on various aspects of rail financing. Clients include lessors, banks, project sponsors, sovereign wealth funds, and operators. Ryland Ash has considerable experience in construction matters.