CARTER, LEDYARD & MILBURN ASSISTS ORIENT-EXPRESS HOTELS IN CLOSING LOAN

On May 22, 2002, Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. (NYSE: OEH), wholly-owned leisure business subsidiary of firm client Sea Containers Ltd., closed $65 million in loans from Credit Lyonnais and Aareal Bank secured by a mortgage on the Charleston Place Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. The bulk of the loan proceeds were used to refinance the existing mortgage held by Scotiabank. Cully Irving, Patricia Matzye, Melinda Poon, Stephen Nahley, Jasen Kisber and Carey Williams worked with Sea Containers counsel Roz Krakauer on the transaction.

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