Emily Widdrington

Emily specialises in shipping finance with over 12 years’ experience advising and acting for banks and ship owners on loan and security documentation. Her experience ranges from advising on high-value ECA-backed financings to loan agreements involving sustainability-linked margin adjustments. She was named a ‘Key Lawyer’ in the Transport Finance and Leasing category by Legal 500. Emily joined Watson Farley & Williams in 2008 and qualified into the Asset Finance group in London in 2010. Since joining she has spent time in the firm’s Singapore, Paris and London offices and has been on two client secondments, the first with an international bank in Norway and the second with a ship owner in Geneva. · Watson Farley & Williams

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Emily Widdrington specialises in shipping finance with over 12 years' experience advising and acting for banks and ship owners on loan and security documentation. Her experience includes high-value ECA-backed financings and loan agreements involving sustainability-linked margin adjustments. She was named a 'Key Lawyer' in the Transport Finance and Leasing category by Legal 500. She joined Watson Farley & Williams in 2008, qualified into the Asset Finance group in London in 2010, and has worked in the firm's Singapore, Paris and London offices. She has completed two client secondments: one with an international bank in Norway and one with a ship owner in Geneva.

Practice areas

Shipping FinanceAsset FinanceBanking and FinanceCorporate Finance

Office

United Arab Emirates

Watson Farley & Williams · Emily specialises in shipping finance with over 12 years’ experience advising and acting for banks and ship owners on loan and security documentation. Her experience ranges from advising on high-value ECA-backed financings to loan agreements involving sustainability-linked margin adjustments. She was named a ‘Key Lawyer’ in the Transport Finance and Leasing category by Legal 500. Emily joined Watson Farley & Williams in 2008 and qualified into the Asset Finance group in London in 2010. Since joining she has spent time in the firm’s Singapore, Paris and London offices and has been on two client secondments, the first with an international bank in Norway and the second with a ship owner in Geneva.

United Arab Emirates

Expertise

ECA-backed financingsSustainability-linked margin adjustmentsLoan and security documentationCorporate finance (including Islamic lending)

Languages

EnglishNorwegianFrenchGermanItalianSpanishArabicChinesePortugueseRussianJapaneseKoreanTurkishVietnameseThaiIndonesianMalayFilipinoHindiUrduBengaliPunjabiTamilTeluguMarathiGujaratiKannadaMalayalamSinhalaNepaliPersianKurdishPashtoUzbekKazakhAzerbaijaniTurkmenKyrgyzTajikDariHausaSwahiliYorubaIgboZuluXhosaAfrikaansDutchDanishSwedishFinnishIcelandicGreekHebrewAmharicSomaliCreoleHaitianJavaneseSundaneseCebuanoIlocanoHiligaynonBikolWarayPampanganPangasinanChamorroPalauanMarshalleseTonganSamoanFijianMaoriHawaiianTahitianMarquesanRapanuiEstonianLatvianLithuanianArmenianGeorgianMongolianTibetanBurmeseLaoKhmerTagalog