Marine Finance

Jones Walker’s interdisciplinary Finance team provides representation and counseling with respect to virtually all facets of transactional business law. Our clients include businesses ranging from small family-owned operations to large public and private multinational corporations in a variety of industries, including banking, shipping, real estate development, engineering, construction, shipbuilding, manufacturing, retailing, transportation, timber, waste storage, and gaming.

We routinely handle a variety of finance transactions, including secured and unsecured lending to debt offerings, bond offerings, real estate development, lease financings, maritime financings, commercial leasing, loan workouts, bankruptcy reorganizations, energy and mineral matters, and international law matters.

Jones Walker regularly represents marine lenders and borrowers in financings, leveraged lease financings, sale leasebacks, Title XI financings, loans, revolving credit facilities, flagging and re-flagging, maritime lien enforcement, foreclosures, ship seizures, maritime restructurings, and maritime bankruptcies. We are frequently called on to counsel clients in complex domestic and international financings, and we have handled billions of dollars in financing and refinancing for maritime industry clients.