Hill Dickinson LLP advises clients across industries including shipping and maritime, banking and finance, and tourism and travel on complex cross-border ship sale and leaseback transactions. The practice is led by Panos Pourgourides, a specialist in large-scale yacht finance, alongside Roderick Palmer, who focuses on commercial shipping and shipbuilding finance. Recent arrivals include shipping transaction and offshore specialist Mark Johnson, Dominic Bulfin and Ellen Sofie Lokholm.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Hill Dickinson has a very reputable and well-organised team. They have an excellent network of correspondent lawyers.'
- 'They are definitely always our first choice and are always very responsive, knowledgeable and practical - finding solutions rather than simply raising problems.'
- 'Knowledgeable on the relevant law and also the practicalities of the transactions and very solution-focussed.
- ‘They are the experts in their field.'
Key clients
- ADES International Advanced Energy Systems A.D.E.S. SAE (Egypt) Asyad Shipping Company Heritage Travel and Tourism Vattenfall AB Bank of America BB Energy Group Berge Bulk BNP Paribas BORE Chailease Finance Close Brothers First Ocean Enterprise Capital G Adventures Government of Oman HSBC Intership Investec J Marr Seafoods JP Morgan Lavinia Corp / Laskaridis Maritime Shipping Lomar Lombard North Central plc Marti Shipmanagement Mashreqbank PSC Neu Seeschiffahrt GmbH We Refuel Polsteam Riyad Bank Samsung Heavy Industries Siem Offshore Siem Shipping Socar Spielthoff’s UML Zakher Marine International Inc SIEM Industries S.A. Dan Tysk Sandbank Offshore Wind GmbH & Co. KG City Cruises Limited The Hood Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Co., Ltd Hornblower Group, Inc. Kuwait Portland Cement Company Orlen LNG Trading Limited Notos Shipping Limited
Work highlights
Advised SIEM Industries S.A in its purchase and debt allocation of 9 vessels amounting to an acquisition of $90m as part of a corporate restructuring.
Acting for Hornblower Group, Inc. as part of its Chapter 11 restructuring.
Acting for ADES International on its acquisition of x2 jack-up rigs and associated drilling businesses from Vantage Drilling plus associated drilling and management arrangements.
Practice head
Roderick Palmer; Panos Pourgourides
Other key lawyers
Mark Johnson; Ellen Sofie Lokholm; Dominic Bulfin