Francis X. Nolan, III

Shareholder

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Francis X. Nolan, III is a Shareholder at Vedder Price and a member of the Global Transportation Finance team. He represents international and domestic lenders, borrowers, investors, lessees, lessors, operators and manufacturers, primarily in the transportation and defense industries. He has extensive experience in the financing of a wide variety of transportation assets and projects, including all types of vessels, drill rigs, locomotives and rolling stock, containers and related equipment. Mr. Nolan assists clients with a wide range of leasing transactions, including operating leases and leveraged and synthetic leasing structures as well as cross-border transactions. He also represents clients in financing transactions for vessels under the US flag and numerous foreign flags, bareboat charter registries and under restricted flags, such as the US Jones Act trades.

He has authored articles on a variety of subjects, taught admiralty law for a number of years and lectures frequently in the United States, Europe and Latin America on transportation finance and related subjects. Mr. Nolan is the principal draftsman of a working committee of the Maritime Law Association of the United States that seeks to enhance collateral security positions of lessors in vessel charters used as financing instruments. He also has been named to the Working Group of the Comité Maritime International to evaluate a potential international convention that would facilitate international recognition of judicial vessel foreclosure sales.

Mr. Nolan was named one of the top maritime finance lawyers in the United States by the Guide to the World’s Leading Shipping & Maritime Lawyers (Euromoney Legal Media Group). He was also named in New York Super Lawyers from 2006–11 and has been named among The Best of the Best USA for several consecutive years. Mr. Nolan was selected by his peers from 2010 to 2012 for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America. 

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• Reregistering Vessels After Foreclosure Sale
• Francis X. Nolan III Elected to Blue Riband Council
• Francis X. Nolan III’s Pro Bono Work Leads to “Successful Negotiation” of SS United States Purchase
• What Does an STB Filing Tell You?

• Distressed Maritime Assets Group
• Finance and Transactions
• Global Transportation Finance
• International Law
• Maritime Finance
• Railcar Finance
• Renewable Energy Development and Finance

• J.D., Syracuse University, 1974
• A.B., University of Notre Dame, 1971
• Universität Innsbruck, Austria, 1968–69
• Clerk to The Honorable Walter T. McGovern, Chief Judge, US District Court, Western District of Washington, 1978

• New York, 1975
• California, 1976

• Fellow, American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers
• Chair, Marine Financing Committee, Maritime Law Association of the United States
• Member, Board of Directors, Maritime Law Association of the United States
• Member, International Bar Association

Honors and Awards