Shalini Bhuchar

Representative experience

Advising an Australian bank on a term loan financing for a UK cruise company for the acquisition of 5 cruise ships, financing of lease finance payments, and general working capital purposes. 

Advising a government owned sponsor on the purchase, financing, conversion and chartering of an LNG vessel as a floating storage facility as part of a European LNG regasification project.

Advising Société Générale on an 8 vessel financing for K Shipping Investment Ltd (part of the Louis Dreyfus group). 

Advising Helios Credit in relation to its financing and subsequent restructuring of a financing in the Nigerian shipping sector. 

Advising African Export-Import Bank and a syndicate in relation to a debt restructuring of a financing of 10 E-190 aircraft, 9 Boeing 787 aircraft and 1 Boeing 777 aircraft for Kenya Airways.  

Advising Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank as mezzanine lender on a Balthazar insurance backed financing with French tax lease of 2 Airbus 350 aircraft for Ethiopian Airlines.

Advising an Australian commercial bank on its acquisition of a circa $800m aircraft loan portfolio from a German bank.

Advising UBS AG on the loan and lease financings of numerous corporate aircraft for private high net worth clients. 

Advising African Export-Import Bank in relation to its pandemic financing of numerous corporates across Africa through its award winning Pandemic Trade Impact Mitigation Facility (PATIMFA).

Advising Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) on financing the acquisition of Cable & Wireless (Seychelles) Limited by a group of Seychelles investors.

Advising a not-for-profit on a funding strategy for its Africa focused healthcare project, which centres on providing vehicles for the delivery of healthcare in various African jurisdictions.