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Position: Managing Partner
Rating:
  • Highly regarded
Bar Admissions:
Norway
Practice Areas:
Banking
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Shipping
Biography

Erlend Lous is a leading expert within shipping and offshore transactions, financings and restructurings.

Erlend assists arrangers of sale/lease back projects, ship owners with sale, purchase, registration, structuring/restructuring and construction contracts, and banks in financings and major restructuring processes.

Erlend was the head of SVW's Singapore office from 2007 – 2009.

Recent transactional highlights
  • Advising Sterling Shipping in their acquisition and financing of 4 Kamsarmax bulk vessels
  • Advising Clarksons Project Finance in a number of projects involving purchase of 20 + vessels
  • Advising Songa Box in container vessel newbuilding projects in China, and purchase, financing and sale container vessels
  • Assisting a bank syndicate with Nordea Bank Plc as Agent in the financing of the DHT tanker fleet.
Practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Financial restructuring
  • Private equity
  • Project finance
  • Restructuring and insolvency
Sector specialisations
  • Banking
  • Shipping
Academic qualifications
  • Cand. Jur, Oslo (2000)
Address:
Oslo
Tel:+47 992 16 772 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:https://svw.no/en/people/erlend-lous/