Contact details

Julie Clegg

T: +44 20 7809 2175 Email Julie | vCard Office: London

Awards

Asset finance: Shipping finance

Asset finance: Shipping finance

Transport finance and leasing

Transport finance and leasing

Winner - The i-law Maritime Law Award

Winner - The i-law Maritime Law Award

Julie Clegg Partner

Contact details

Julie Clegg

Julie Clegg
Partner

T: +44 20 7809 2175 Email Julie | vCard Office: London

Julie specialises in ship financing. She has extensive experience of advising lenders and borrowers on a variety of transactions and in a variety of sectors. She produces and negotiates sophisticated documentation and structures to reflect the increasing corporatisation of ship financing and the innovative financing techniques now being used.
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  • Services
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Julie's experience has been gained over a number of years through her involvement in various parts of the shipping cycle. She acts for lenders and borrowers on everything from complex cross-border financial transactions to simple ship sales and purchases in relation to all vessel types. Julie's particular focus is on the cruise sector.

She led the consulting editor team for, and is a contributor to, the fourth edition of Stephenson Harwood's leading ship finance industry handbook, Shipping Finance, and is also a co-author of the pre-delivery ship finance chapter of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management's handbook, Grundlagen der Schiffsfinanzierung.

"Clients praise her willingness to go the extra mile ... hardworking and tenacious"

Chambers UK 2011
  • Shipping
  • Ship and offshore finance
  • Finance
  • Marine and international trade

Lenders

Representing agents (particularly of large syndicates), bilateral lenders and syndicate members on cross border, senior and junior, secured and unsecured financings/refinancings and restructurings and on the granting and sale of loan participations.

Security parties

Assisting borrowers and guarantors with the negotiation of loan documentation, the satisfaction of the conditions precedent to drawdown of the loan and the registration of their ships in the UK or elsewhere.

Ships

Acting in relation to the finance, registration, operation, employment and sale and purchase of newbuilding or second hand cruise ships, container ships, LNG vessels, bulk carriers, tankers, rigs and more.

Export finance

Acting for lenders of finance supported by export credit agencies, most recently Hermes and Finnvera.

More: Shipping

Lenders

Representing agents (particularly of large syndicates), bilateral lenders and syndicate members on cross border, senior and junior, secured and unsecured financings/ refinancings and restructurings and on the granting and sale of loan participations.

Security parties

Assisting borrowers and guarantors with the negotiation of loan documentation, the satisfaction of the conditions precedent to drawdown of the loan and the registration of their ships in the UK or elsewhere.

Ships

Acting in relation to the finance, registration, operation, employment and sale and purchase of newbuilding or second hand cruise ships, container ships, LNG vessels, bulk carriers, tankers, rigs and more.

Export finance

Acting for lenders of finance supported by export credit agencies, most recently Hermes and Finnvera.

More: Ship and offshore finance

Lenders

Acting for agents (particularly of large syndicates), bilateral lenders and syndicate members on cross border, senior and junior, secured and unsecured ship financings/refinancings and restructurings.

Security parties

Assisting borrowers and guarantors with the negotiation of predominantly ship finance documentation and the satisfaction of the conditions precedent to drawdown of the loan.

Export finance

Acting for lenders of ship finance supported by export credit agencies, most recently Hermes and Finnvera.

Participations

Acting for lenders on the granting and sale of secured and unsecured loan participations in cross border financings/refinancings.

More: Finance

Financiers

Acting for agents (particularly of large syndicates), bilateral lenders and syndicate members on cross border, senior and junior, secured and unsecured ship financings/refinancings and restructurings.

Shipowners

Assisting shipowners as borrowers and guarantors with the negotiation of loan documentation and the satisfaction of the conditions precedent to drawdown of the loan.

Ships

Acting in relation to the finance, registration, operation, employment and sale and purchase of newbuilding or second hand cruise ships, container ships, LNG vessels, bulk carriers, tankers, rigs and more.

More: Marine and international trade
  • Banks and banking

Ship finance

Representing agents (particularly of large syndicates), bilateral lenders and syndicate members on cross border, senior and junior, secured and unsecured financings/refinancings and restructurings for newbuilding or second hand cruise ships, container ships, LNG vessels, bulk carriers, tankers, rigs and more.

Export finance

Acting for lenders of ship finance supported by export credit agencies, most recently Hermes and Finnvera.

Participations

Acting for lenders on the granting and sale of loan participations.

More: Banks and banking

Awards

Asset finance: Shipping finance

Asset finance: Shipping finance

Transport finance and leasing

Transport finance and leasing

Winner - The i-law Maritime Law Award

Winner - The i-law Maritime Law Award

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