Electra Stamatopoulos
Associate

Electra is a Solicitor in the Shipping Finance group, specialising in shipping. She advises banks, financial institutions and US-listed companies on all aspects of ship financing (including restructurings) as well as on the documentation relating to the sale, purchase and operation of ships (newbuilding and second hand).

• Advising HSH Nordbank AG (“HSH”) on its transfer of ten distressed vessels out of the bank’s non-core portfolio to the Navios Group.
• Assisting DnB Bank ASA on a $1.35 bn financing to Drillships Ocean Ventures Inc for the purchase of three drillships. This included a Kexim Tranche and an Eksportkreditt Tranche.
• Advising ING Bank, London branch in connection with a $160m post-delivery export finance-backed loan facility to Russian tanker major Sovcomflot, to finance two multi-functional icebreaking supply vessels.
• Advising Teekay Corporation on a $76m loan facility financed by DNB in connection with the collateral transfer of ten vessels.

• 2013: Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales
• 2010 – 2011: BPP Law School, Legal Practice Course, Distinction
• 2009 – 2010: BPP Law School Graduate Diploma in Law, Commendation
• 2008 – 2009: University of Sorbonne, Paris, Diploma in Business French, Distinction
• 2005 – 2008: University of Oxford, MA English Literature, 2:1

• Law Society of England and Wales

• 2013 – present: Watson Farley & Williams, Greece – Assistant
• 2009 – 2011: Watson Farley & Williams LLP, London – Trainee Solicitor