Jasel Chauhan
Hill Dickinson LLP
Head of International Finance 
(Partner / Board Member)

Jasel has been based in Greece since 2009 and has specialised in banking and finance legal services since 2005, with particular focus on the marine sector from 2007. Jasel is a specialist in the Greek shipping market and advises shipowners, banks and financial institutions on a variety of finance and corporate shipping matters, including ship/fleet acquisitions, ship finance, joint ventures/shareholders' agreements, hire purchase and leasing transactions, shipbuilding and builder credits, corporate restructuring, shipping investment funds, bond issuance, interest rate and currency derivatives and security enforcement. He has also been involved in some of the most high-profile restructurings of Greek-based ship owners and managers in recent times, – within both commercial shipping and cruise sectors.

Jasel has been noted for several years as a “Leading Individual” by The Legal 500 (EMEA) and is ranked by Chambers & Partners (Global) for shipping finance (international firms) in Greece. Legal 500 EMEA describes Jasel as "brilliant", an exceptional professional" and a “standout leader”. He is praised for being "the go to lawyer for complex borrower-led financings and corporate transactions by The Legal 500 (EMEA) 2022. Chambers and Partners Global notes that "Jasel is not someone who wants to score points in negotiations; he is commercial, understands how deals work and focuses on getting the deal done". Chambers and Partners (Europe) 2022 adds "He's efficient but, most importantly, he's a very commercially-minded person.