Kim Walsh

Partner

• Suite 1100, Cabot Place
  100 New Gower St.
  St. John’s, N.L.
  A1C 6K3
• +1.709.570.8834
• +1.709.722.4565
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Language(s) spoken: English

Bar Admission(s): Newfoundland and Labrador, 2001

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Legal Assistant(s): Dedra Hickman

Kim’s practice is focused primarily on the marine sector. She represents ship owners, insurers, mortgagees and creditors in arrests, releases, bail and settlements for ships, and advises on the types of security available for lenders and borrowers. Drawing on her deep understanding of the marine industry, Kim has an interest in the renewable energy sector, where she advises developers, landowners and other stakeholders on the commercial agreements and regulatory requirements associated with energy transition projects, including wind energy, hydrogen production and biofuel refining.

Kim has also assisted lenders and borrowers in numerous banking and financing transactions, including the drafting of credit agreements and the structuring of security packages, particularly in the marine and fisheries sectors.

She further advises lenders and their agents on matters related to the realization of security and the restructuring of credit arrangements with insolvent debtors.

Kim has a diverse practice, with hands-on experience across a range of complex matters. Her experience includes:

• Acting for ship owners, lenders and other interests in vessel registrations, conveyances and financings.
• Advising ship owners, lenders and port owners on commercial marine contracts, including charter parties, and shipbuilding and repair contracts.
• Acting for ship owners in marine regulatory matters, providing advice on coasting trade issues and defending environmental prosecutions.
• Acting for ship owners and as correspondent for P & I clubs in matters such as ship arrests, collisions, cargo claims, and environmental infractions.
• Acting for clients in various aspects of maritime litigation, including collisions, submarine cable contacts, cargo claims, personal injury, charterparty disputes, limitation of liability, debt collection, tendering disputes, regulatory matters and marine  insurance.
• Acting for creditors and insolvency professionals in a wide array of insolvency matters, including bankruptcy, receivership and related enforcement matters.
• Advising on an option agreement for the lease of land related to the development and operation of a wind farm and a hydrogen production, storage and export project.
• Advising on the permitting requirements for the conversion of a fossil fuel refinery to a biofuel refinery.