Eleanor Martin
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Asset Finance: Shipping Finance
Band 3
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Eleanor Martin is a banking and finance lawyer based in London. She has detailed experience in advising on vessel and offshore equipment (including FPSOs and drilling rigs) financing, whether of a project finance, asset finance, project bond or corporate nature, as well as other asset finance matters, including aviation, deep sea mining and aerospace transactions, in 2021 winning the Marine Money ECA Deal of the Year for a shuttle tanker financing and the AFJ Africa Deal of the Year for her work adviisng TAAG Angola Airlines.
Eleanor has structured and completed financings of offshore equipment operating in the North Sea, on the Norwegian Continetal Shelf and offshore Brazil, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, Senegal, Western Australia and Angola.
Eleanor has spent time on secondment with two major European banks (including the offshore desk of one of them). She is recognised by Chambers UK 2017 as a leading individual for offshore finance who has "expertise in financing offshore assets including FPSOs, drilling rigs and support vessels" and impresses clients with her "sharp, pragmatic and thinking outside of the box" approach.