Amalia Tzima
Amalia is a transactional lawyer based in the London office of HFW specialising in shipping and export finance as well as yachts and superyachts.
Amalia acts for a range of finance providers including many of the industry's leading banks as well as borrowers/sponsors and operators on a variety of matters including debt finance and refinancing in the commercial shipping sector. She also advises owners, shipyards, brokerage houses, financial institutions and designers in the yachting sector, with a particular focus on financing, construction, refit and design, sale and purchase, chartering, management and registration.
She is currently on client secondment to the infrastructure and export finance team of a major international bank gaining experience in a wide range of export finance transactions involving, amongst others, MIGA, KEXIM, K-Sure and SACE as well as complex domestic and international infrastructure and project financings.
She has contributed to various publications including to the Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 2021, with an article in relation to the role of global limitation of liability for maritime claims in the modern business environment. It is available to download by clicking here.
She has also spent time working at HFW’s Piraeus and Monaco offices and speaks fluent Greek.