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Niovi Antoniou, as a transportation finance solicitor, advises banks, funds, lessors, operators, and asset owners on a wide range of structured finance facilities, sale and leasebacks and leasings within the shipping, commercial aviation, and equipment sectors.

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Niovi has extensive experience managing vessel, aircraft and loan portfolio sales and novations. She also frequently advises clients on structuring joint ventures as investment vehicles in the maritime sector to support fleet growth strategies.

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Advising international aircraft lessors on numerous portfolio and individual sales, acquisitions, leases and novations involving a significant number of aircraft and airlines and in various jurisdictions.

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Advised Windstar Cruises in connection with its purchase of two new all-suite Star Class ships, a significant acquisition for Windstar, a leader in the small ship luxury cruising sector.

Represented Constellation Oil Services in connection with new drillship contracts that have been awarded by Petróleo Brasileiro, a state-owned energy company of Brazil.

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Get Ready! EU Emissions Trading System Expands to Cover Maritime Sector; Effective January 1, 2024

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter December 2023

Four Vedder Price Practice Areas and Fourteen Attorneys Named to Legal 500’s UK Rankings 2026

Vedder Price Represents Windstar Cruises in Significant Cruise Ship Transaction

Vedder Price Represents Constellation Oil Services in Connection with Approximately $1 Billion New Drillship Contracts with Petrobras

Vedder Price Represents Windstar Cruises in Fleet Expansion Transaction

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter December 2025

IMO Net-Zero Factsheet and Update

Two Fuels, Two Frameworks: Comparing ReFuelEU Aviation and FuelEU Maritime

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter May 2026

Commercial Aviation Finance

Global Transportation Finance

Maritime

General Equipment Leasing & Finance

Finance & Secured Lending

Niovi Antoniou

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Niovi Antoniou

Credentials

Education

Bar Admissions

Languages

Recognition

Insights & Events

Two Fuels, Two Frameworks: Comparing ReFuelEU Aviation and FuelEU Maritime

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter May 2026

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter December 2025

IMO Net-Zero Factsheet and Update

Vedder Price Represents Windstar Cruises in Fleet Expansion Transaction

Four Vedder Price Practice Areas and Fourteen Attorneys Named to Legal 500’s UK Rankings 2026

Vedder Price Represents Constellation Oil Services in Connection with Approximately $1 Billion New Drillship Contracts with Petrobras

Vedder Price Represents Windstar Cruises in Significant Cruise Ship Transaction

Niovi Antoniou

Credentials

Education

Bar Admissions

Languages

Recognition

Insights & Events

Two Fuels, Two Frameworks: Comparing ReFuelEU Aviation and FuelEU Maritime

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter May 2026

Global Transportation Finance Newsletter December 2025

IMO Net-Zero Factsheet and Update

Vedder Price Represents Windstar Cruises in Fleet Expansion Transaction

Four Vedder Price Practice Areas and Fourteen Attorneys Named to Legal 500’s UK Rankings 2026

Vedder Price Represents Constellation Oil Services in Connection with Approximately $1 Billion New Drillship Contracts with Petrobras

Vedder Price Represents Windstar Cruises in Significant Cruise Ship Transaction

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