Hill Dickinson strengthens London team with new corporate commercial partner

Worldwide industrial regulation agency Hill Dickinson has introduced the appointment of Mark Johnson, becoming a member of the agency’s London workplace as a company industrial associate, bringing with him over 30 years of expertise within the maritime and authorized fields.

The previous naval officer and ship’s captain joins the agency’s industrial delivery staff, additional consolidating the connection between Hill Dickinson’s Enterprise Companies and Marine teams. Johnson brings in depth expertise advising on the development, conversion, sale and buy, recycling, financing, administration, operation and possession of all varieties of vessels, together with FSRUs, drilling rigs, wind turbine set up vessels and ferries in addition to among the world’s largest superyachts.

Ranked within the delivery part of Chambers & Companions and really helpful in The Authorized 500 information, Johnson will help Hill Dickinson in negotiating and documenting large-scale and complicated maritime and offshore initiatives. He acts for a spread of shoppers from main banks and oil corporations to ship house owners, leasing corporations and shipyards.

Johnson joins from US regulation agency Haynes and Boone, the place he co-headed the agency’s Delivery follow alongside its Autonomous Transportation follow. Previous to that, he spent over ten years at Reed Smith and 12 years within the Royal Navy.

This newest appointment comes at a time of successive progress for Hill Dickinson’s London workplace and the broader Enterprise Companies Group, which has made greater than ten lateral associate hires prior to now 12 months.

Fiona Parry, head of Enterprise Companies Group at Hill Dickinson, mentioned: “Taking a people-first strategy is vital to our technique, so following one other yr of exceptional progress for the agency, our focus is to proceed to bolster our Enterprise Companies providing by attracting among the business’s greatest senior expertise. Mark’s appointment is indicative of the funding we’re making into our London follow as we proceed to make strides within the metropolis’s more and more aggressive authorized market.”

Rod Palmer, delivery and aviation associate within the London Business staff, mentioned: “Mark’s addition to our Business Delivery staff comes at a time when demand for our specialist maritime and offshore financing providers is continuous to develop. His popularity within the metropolis and his thorough and in-depth sector data provides us invaluable additional capability throughout the complete vary of banking, lending, sale and buy and debt financing providers within the delivery area. His Royal Navy background additionally demonstrates the synergies that exists between our completely different enterprise areas, crossing over very successfully with our Marine Group. I’m trying ahead to introducing him to our shoppers over the approaching weeks.”

Mark Johnson, associate at Hill Dickinson, mentioned: “Becoming a member of Hill Dickinson, which has such a prestigious historical past in maritime regulation, is a really thrilling step in my profession. I sit up for working with my new colleagues to assist information our shoppers in all features of their English regulation wants and offering on-the-ground help right here in England in addition to in Greece, Hong Kong and Singapore.”