Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Delos Shipping
Brian Ladin
Three decades in capital markets and the maritime industry — financing, leasing and acquiring the vessels that move more than ninety percent of world trade.
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Vessels purchased
$1.3B+
Capital deployed
$100M+
Prior-fund profits
CFA
Charterholder
Overview
A financier of hard assets at sea
Brian Ladin founded Delos Shipping to do something the banking system had stopped doing well: put patient, structured capital behind ships. The firm operates as a merchant bank and lessor to the maritime industry, providing debt and equity to owners and operators across tankers, dry bulk, containers, car carriers, cruise and specialty marine assets.
The through-line of his career is a willingness to underwrite complexity. Delos credits its record to “persistence, creativity and ability to take on transactions that other companies will not touch” — distressed loans, orphaned tonnage, cross-border restructurings and vessels that need a new home mid-cycle.
What Delos does
Sale-leasebacks
Five- to twenty-five-year leases on all maritime asset types, for counterparties rated — actually or by implication — from CCC to AA.
Distressed acquisitions
Distressed loans, corporations, partnerships and assets across the maritime industry, bought and restructured.
Cyclical positions
Opportunistic purchases in dry bulk, container and tanker tonnage, underwritten against the freight and asset-value cycle.
“Over ninety percent of global trade moves by sea. Shipping is one of the truest indicators of the world economy.”
Brian Ladin