Kavita Shah
Partner
Watson Farley Williams
Kavita Shah is a partner in the Watson Farley & Williams London Asset Finance Group. She specialises in international finance and in particular structured finance, asset finance, project finance and leasing transactions in the maritime sector, acting for a number of financial institutions and international corporations as well as shipping companies. Kavita has a wide range of experience including the structuring of shipping finance, lease and other credit-wrapped structures, export credit backed products, project financing transactions and loan portfolio sales and transfers involving a variety of maritime and offshore assets.
Kavita has spent short periods of time in the Singapore, Paris and Athens offices of the firm and has also done a seven months secondment with Lloyds TSB Bank plc (as it then was known) in their shipping section of the Structured Asset Finance department.
She joined Watson Farley & Williams in 2001 as a trainee solicitor, qualifying into the International Finance Group in 2003.