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Tone Tafjord Seth

Simonsen Vogt Wiig

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Position: Associate partner
Rating:
  • Notable practitioner
Practice Areas:
Asset finance
Jurisdictions:
Industry Sectors:
Shipping
Biography

Tone is a leading experts in shipping and financing. Tone has over 12 years of experience in the shipping and finance sectors and assists financial institutions, owners, brokers, yards and facilitators in a wide range of transactions and financings, with a particular focus on the shipping, offshore and energy sectors.

Tone provides documentation and lead negotiations and closings related to, among other things, syndicated and bilateral loans, project financings, acquisition financings, sale/leaseback transactions, export financings, shipbuilding, joint ventures, purchases/sales, vessel registration and chartering.

Key practice areas
  • Asset finance
  • Banking
  • Financial restructuring
  • Private equity
    Project finance
Sector expertise
  • Banking
  • Shipping

 

Academic qualifications
  • Master of Laws, University of Oslo, 2012
  • LLM Maritime Law, University of Southampton, 2013
  • Exchange, National University of Singapore, 2010
Association/network memberships
  • The Norwegian Shipowners’ Association’s Maritime Trainee Program, 2013-2015
Bar admissions
  • Norway