Juliana was called to the English Bar by the Inner Temple in 1995 and is an Advocate & Solicitor in Singapore, as well as a solicitor of England and Wales. Her practice is high-end asset finance and corporate work, particularly in shipping, marine and offshore. She acts for banks and financial institutions, export credit agencies, lessors, lessees, shipowners, operators and shipbuilders on debt and leasing transactions, workouts and restructuring, and advises on shipbuilding and conversion contracts, refund guarantees, ship sale and purchase, flagging, and corporate structuring.
Shipping and asset finance · Restructuring · Shipbuilding contracts · Ship sale and purchase · Corporate structuring
Recognition
Shipping and Maritime LawThe Best Lawyers in Singapore · recognised since 2018(opens in a new tab)
- Client Choice Award, Shipping & Transport (Singapore winner)Client Choice Awards · 2020
Selected examples of transactions (14)
- Acted for a syndicate of banks in a US$460 million syndicated multi-currency term loan / revolving contingent instrument facility involving security over 30 vessels for a listed marine services provider to the offshore oil and gas industry.
- Acted for a US bank in a US$74 million secured facility for the pre- and post- delivery financing of Capesize bulk carriers for a leading drybulk carrier.
- Acted for a major Chinese shipping group as lessors in drawing up lease financing master documentation in respect of newbuildings constructed at its shipyards.
- Acted for borrowers (subsidiaries of a major Japanese international shipping group) in ECA backed financing transactions of over US$121 million for new building ore carriers of approximately 250,000 DWT each.
- Acted for a Chinese shipbuilding/shipowning group in its debt restructuring involving 14 drybulk and tanker vessels.
- Acted for a syndicate of banks in a US$60 million financing for chemical tankers in a leasing finance transaction to a major Korean shipping group.
- Acted for a syndicate of banks in a US$66 million mezzanine financing for a fleet of anchor handling tug supply vessels leased to subsidiaries of a Singapore listed marine offshore group.
- Acted for financiers in a shariah compliant murabaha facility for the acquisition by a Malaysian listed company through its Singapore subsidiary of a US$120 million offshore subsea construction vessel. This transaction involved advising on securities under a related bond issuance and coordinating the closing of the various transactions involving parties located in no less than 5 different locations across the globe.
- Acted for lessees in sale and leaseback transactions in respect of livestock carriers for one of the world’s largest livestock carriers.
- Acted for a Swiss bank in a US$60 million financing of secondhand product tanker vessels for a joint venture between companies listed in Singapore and Europe. This transaction also involved advising on joint venture issues and limited recourse guarantees.
- Acted for a Japanese bank in a US$94 million financing of newbuilding car carriers acquired through a joint venture between a Singapore listed company and a major Japanese shipping group. This was a highly negotiated transaction particularly on vessel insurance issues.
- Acted for financiers in the debt restructuring of a major offshore and marine group with total liabilities of around US$1 billion.
- Acted in the restructuring of a large international offshore group involving, among other things, the redomiciliation of foreign companies into Singapore and reflagging of multiple vessels.
- Acted as Singapore counsel in a US$300 million financing for the procurement of copper cathodes from the Swiss trading arm of a prominent global commodities trading company.
Client details have been omitted for confidentiality reasons.
