At Watson Farley & Williams LLP, as well as expertly handling core maritime transport and ship finance issues, the team is well-versed in matters relating to offshore oil and gas, container boxes, service vessels, logistics and ferries. Lizzie Roe provides strength in project, asset and structured finance, expertise shared by Asia assets and structured finance specialist Christoforos Bisbikos. On the contentious side, Sumeet Malhotra and Steven Burkill are key names. The four aforementioned oversee the group. Andrew Nimmo is noted for his niche focus on offshore oil and gas projects, and related maritime and floating asset work, while Kimarie Cheang is the key name for shipbuilding matters.
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PARTNER IN THE ASSETS & STRUCTURED FINANCE GROUP
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Andrew specialises in the offshore oil & gas and maritime sectors, where he advises on project and asset financings, leasing transactions and joint venture structures and on a wide variety of commercial oil & gas and shipping documentation, including charterparties, construction/conversion contracts, EPCI contracts, O&M contracts, PSCs/RSCs and JOAs, service agreements and asset sale and purchase contracts.
He acts for a wide variety of contractors, sponsors, owners and operators as well as financiers (international banks, private equity funds and other financial institutions) in relation to offshore production, storage and drilling assets, support vessels and other offshore oil and gas and shipping assets.
He has been based in Singapore since 2004.
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‘WFW have a strong shipping practice and really know their stuff in this field.’
‘Kimarie Cheang is top-notch. She knows shipping, thinks strategically and is very knowledgeable.’
Key clients
- ING Bank N.V., Singapore Branch Credit Agricole Asia Shipfinance Limited Standard Chartered Bank Oversea- Chinese Banking Corporation Ltd Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Berge Bulk BW Group BNP Paribas Armada 98/2 Pte. Ltd. Oka Tanker Pte Ltd
Work highlights
Advised ING Bank N.V., Singapore Branch - in its role as arranger, facility agent, security agent and lender - on a $50m term loan facility for Tank Container Investment Fund as borrower.
Advised on an equity only JOLCO with Stena North Sea Limited as charterer/seller in relation to the purchase of two RoRo Passenger Ferry vessels for $100m.
Advised Financial Partners Group - as equity provider - on a JOLCO with Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken as lenders, Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank as agent and Stena Ropax Cyrpus Eur Limited as charterer/seller in relation to the purchase of one RoRo Passenger Ferry vessels for €104,250,000 and $39,191,139.98.