Michael S. Timpone
Partner
Seward & Kissel LLP

Mike Timpone is a partner in the Corporate Finance and Business Transactions Groups and a member of the Management Committee at Seward & Kissel.  Mike is the head of the Firm’s Transportation Finance Group, a cross section of attorneys within the Firm from the Corporate Finance, Corporate Securities, Business Transactions, Litigation, Bankruptcy and Tax Departments with expertise on matters of interest to clients in the transportation industry.  He devotes a large part of his time to the representation of U.S. and non-U.S. banks and other institutional lenders as well as borrowers in connection with secured loans and other financing transactions, as well as corporations and other business entities as borrowers in these transactions.  Mike has worked on matters ranging from the formation of joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, asset finance transactions, registered and unregistered securities transactions, to restructurings.
 
Mike is the immediate past Chair of the Marine Financing Committee for the Maritime Law Association of the United States. Mike is also a Member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the American Bar Association and the Maritime Law Association of the United States. He is recognized by Chambers USA and Chambers Global in Transportation: Shipping: Finance, as well as by New York Super Lawyers. Mike is also a contributor to Seward & Kissel’s Maritime Blog.
 
Mike received a B.A. with honors, from Rutgers College and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. Mike has spent his entire legal career at Seward & Kissel.

Recognition
Chambers Global 2022 ― Leading lawyer for Shipping Finance
Chambers Global 2022 ― Leading foreign expert in Shipping (Liberia)
Chambers Global 2022 – Leading foreign expert in General Business Law (Marshall Islands)
Chambers USA 2020 - 2022 ― Leading lawyer for Shipping/Maritime: Finance
Super Lawyers 2012-2022 ― Top rated Transportation & Maritime attorney in New York
Best Lawyers 2022 ― Selected as one of the “Best Lawyers in America”