Kate Silverstein
Partner London
KATE IS A PARTNER IN THE FIRM’S ASSETS & STRUCTURED FINANCE GROUP.
Kate specialises in asset finance with a focus on shipping. She has experience on a variety of transactions including ECA-backed products, offshore and FSRU financings and container and cruise ship financings and has advised on loan facilities, leasing arrangements and leasetails, portfolio transfers, complex restructurings and intercreditor agreements.
Kate has acted for owners, lenders and charterers and is listed as a Key Lawyer at the firm in the Transport Finance and Leasing category by Legal 500.
Kate joined Watson Farley & Williams in 2007 as a trainee solicitor and qualified into the Asset Finance group of the Paris office in 2009 before returning to the London office in January 2012.
- Advised MSC Cruises on a ECA backed debt financing facility in excess of US$2 billion to fund the newbuilding programme for their four new luxury class ships currently under construction at Fincantieri, Italy.
- Advising Höegh LNG on the ECA-backed US$230m debt financing for its eighth floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU).
- Advising Hoegh LNG on its first ever sale and leaseback deal with China Construction Bank Financial Leasing (“CCBFL”) for its tenth Floating Storage Regasification Unit (“FSRU”), the Hoegh Galleon, which has been taken back on charter by Hoegh LNG for twelve years.
- Advising long-standing client MSC Cruises S.A. (“MSC Cruises”), the world’s fourth largest cruise operator, regarding two loan facilities for the development of its private resort island in the Bahamas known as “MSC Ocean Cay Marine Reserve” (“Ocean Cay”).
- Advising on a US$172m ECA-supported loan facility for Scorpio Tankers.
Education
- 2006 · College of Law, Legal Practice Course
- 2005 · University of Exeter, Bachelor of Laws, LLB (Hons)
memberships & associations
- Law Society of England & Wales
- ArticleA Year on for Poseidon Principles
- PressWFW advises TUIC on financing and implementation of US$1.3bn acquisition of HL Cruises
- PressWFW makes up six new Partners for 2020
- PressWFW advises Höegh LNG on first FSRU sale and leaseback with CCBL
- PressWFW advises MSC Cruises on financing agreements for development of Ocean Cay Project