As a senior associate in our Finance practice, Marina Bride Soares focuses on asset finance, with particular emphasis on the aviation sector. She regularly advises financiers, borrowers, lessors, and airlines in relation to a broad range of cross-border transactions, including PDP, loan and lease financings, aircraft portfolio migrations, sale and leasebacks, split ownership arrangements, joint ventures, and export credit structures. She has also been involved in general banking and restructuring matters.

Marina undertook a secondment to the Project & Export Finance team at HSBC Bank plc in London from September 2012 to March 2013.

Prior to joining Hogan Lovells, Marina began her career in Frankfurt am Main as an intern and, subsequently, as a project finance transaction lawyer, spending two years working for a leading international law firm before joining the asset finance team at another major law firm in Frankfurt where she advised major German airlines.

Marina is a Brazilian national and uses her international background to assist clients in different jurisdictions around the world.