Paul Coggins
Asia-Pacific Guide 2024
Band 1 : Banking & Finance: International Asset Finance
Band 1
About
Provided by Paul Coggins
Practice Areas
Paul is a banking and finance lawyer based in Tokyo, focusing on the shipping and offshore sectors. He acts for commercial banks, ECAs and sponsors in the financing of all manner of ships and offshore units using various financing structures, including complex cross-border project and asset-based leasing and debt facilities.
Paul also has considerable experience drafting and negotiating commercial shipping agreements, including shipbuilding contracts and charterparties, and advising on the sale and purchase of ships, ship-owning companies and distressed shipping loans, acting for ship owners, charterers and financiers.
Before joining the Tokyo office in 2010, Paul spent time in London and Singapore with a well-known international shipping law firm and on secondment to the Asia Shipping Desk of a leading bank in Hong Kong.
Paul read Classics at Cambridge University and was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2008.
Chambers Review
Asia-Pacific
Paul Coggins is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright's Tokyo office who is widely respected as a pre-eminent figure in the maritime financing world.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"His legal analysis is great. It is also worth mentioning the speed of response and the quality of service."
"He understands our policy. When we face an issue, he can come up with a reasonable solution which is well balanced."
"His legal analysis is great. It is also worth mentioning the speed of response and the quality of service."
"He understands our policy. When we face an issue, he can come up with a reasonable solution which is well balanced."
