Sengova is a senior associate in the Asset Finance team at Hogan Lovells International LLP.  He advises financiers, borrowers, lessors and operators on a broad spectrum of asset finance transaction types, including loan financings, sale and leasebacks, lease novations and export credit facilities in respect of aircraft.  Sengova is also experienced in the financing of vessels.

In 2019, Sengova completed six months on secondment to Standard Chartered Bank's aviation finance team based in Dublin, gaining valuable experience in an operating lessor’s business.  With respect to leasing and financing arrangements, he is also experienced in restructuring matters, including forbearance and deferral proposals and the relevant contractual documentation required.

Sengova sits on the steering committees of the HL Multicultural Network and the newly established employee network, Race and Ethnicity at Hogan Lovells (REAHL). He is a member of the firm’s Africa Practice as well as acting co-treasurer of NOTICED, the UK’s first inter-firm D&I network aimed at promoting networking opportunities to celebrate diversity across the legal sector.

Sengova has been recognised on a national and international level for his achievements.  He was awarded the “Junior Lawyer of the Year” at The Law Society Excellence Awards 2020, due to his “brilliant high-level work as well as dedication to diversity and inclusion”.  In addition, as a result of Sengova’s “business achievements and impact on ethnic minority inclusion”, he was listed as no. 17 on The EMpower Top 100 Ethnic Minority Future Leader Role Models List 2020, sponsored by Yahoo Finance. This list celebrates inspirational people of colour in the EU, the US and Canada.