John Benson

Ranked in 2 Practice Areas

Expertise Based Abroad

General Business Law

Marshall Islands

6 Years Ranked

Expertise Based Abroad

Shipping

Liberia

4 Years Ranked

Ranked in Guides

USA 2025

Asia-Pacific 2025

About

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John in a Partner in the Finance Group.

John regularly represents financial institutions, private equity and other investment funds as well as foreign and domestic owners and operators in the international shipping markets, with an emphasis on the negotiation and documentation of cross-border asset-backed structured transactions and joint ventures.

Career

John is admitted to practice law in New York and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and advises and issues opinions relating to entities formed in the Marshall Islands and Liberia.

He is recognized as a leading asset finance lawyer by legal directories Chambers USA, Legal 500 US and IFLR1000, with the first noting in 2018 that he is “highly knowledgeable about shipping company legal requirements across multiple areas, such as finance, asset sale and purchase, risk management and organization structure.”

Chambers Review

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Chambers Global Guide

General Business Law - Marshall Islands

Marshall Islands, expertise based abroad in USA

Individual Editorial

John Benson of Watson Farley & Williams in New York acts for financiers on a range of Marshall Islands corporate and shipping transactions. He is specialised in ABS deals and, alongside the Marshall Islands, also advises on Vanuatu shipping law.

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Shipping - Liberia

Liberia, expertise based abroad in USA

Individual Editorial

John Benson advises on Liberian maritime law matters as part of his wider New York-based asset finance practice.

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Articles, highlights and press releases

3 items provided by Watson Farley & Williams (New York) LLP

Press Release

WFW advises Macquarie Bank on first of its kind shipping loan/lease securitisation for Fleetscape

Securitisation principles and certain structuring efficiencies were utilised to enable Fleetscape to offer sale-and-leaseback or unitranche financing on highly competitive terms.

Feb 15, 2021

Authored by Jim Bell, John Benson, Clemens C Hillmer, Lindsey Keeble, Dominic Pearson, Zara Hammersley, Jane Keith, CJ Chido, Elsa Savvatianou, Alex Clark

Press Release

WFW advises US maritime lender on US$56m senior loan facility for Seamax

Seamax operates a fleet of 12 modern, post-Panamax container ships and provides the world’s top shipping lines with over 1.2m deadweight tonnage in carrying capacity.

Jan 29, 2021

Authored by John Benson, Kavita Shah, Daniel Pilarski, John Man, Charlotte Humphreys

Press Release

WFW advises lenders on US$155m Tangguh LNG carrier refinancing

Both LNG Carriers Tangguh Batur and Tangguh Towuti have been recognised by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore’s Green Ship Programme for attaining Energy Efficiency Design Index certification.

Dec 1, 2020

Authored by John Benson, Gary Walsh, Emeline Yew, Laura Gerrard, Amarjit Syan, James Burgess, Jeremy Chiew, Rob McBride, Lydia Jones, C.J. Chido

Press Release

WFW advises Macquarie Bank on first of its kind shipping loan/lease securitisation for Fleetscape

Securitisation principles and certain structuring efficiencies were utilised to enable Fleetscape to offer sale-and-leaseback or unitranche financing on highly competitive terms.

Feb 15, 2021

Authored by Jim Bell, John Benson, Clemens C Hillmer, Lindsey Keeble, Dominic Pearson, Zara Hammersley, Jane Keith, CJ Chido, Elsa Savvatianou, Alex Clark

Press Release

WFW advises US maritime lender on US$56m senior loan facility for Seamax

Seamax operates a fleet of 12 modern, post-Panamax container ships and provides the world’s top shipping lines with over 1.2m deadweight tonnage in carrying capacity.

Jan 29, 2021

Authored by John Benson, Kavita Shah, Daniel Pilarski, John Man, Charlotte Humphreys

Press Release

WFW advises lenders on US$155m Tangguh LNG carrier refinancing

Dec 1, 2020

Authored by John Benson, Gary Walsh, Emeline Yew, Laura Gerrard, Amarjit Syan, James Burgess, Jeremy Chiew, Rob McBride, Lydia Jones, C.J. Chido

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