Margie Krumholz is nationally known for her work in maritime finance/leasing and maritime regulatory matters, particularly those related to the Jones Act, including citizenship qualification.
Margie’s practice spans more than 40 years representing borrowers, lenders, lessors, and lessees in structuring, negotiating, and closing financing transactions, including leases, leveraged leases, and cross-border transactions. She is experienced in the U.S. government guarantee program for vessels.
Margie also handles vessel sales and purchases, and portfolio sales. In addition to financing transactions, she counsels private equity and hedge fund clients in their investments in maritime businesses in the U.S. Jones Act trade. Other large firms have sought Margie’s unique experience in this area when dealing with transactions that have maritime components. She is a former chair of the Marine Financing Committee of the Maritime Law Association of the United States.
Margie counsels clients on maritime regulatory matters, including citizenship qualification before the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Maritime Administration (MarAd), the applicability of the Jones Act, the registration of ships in the United States and foreign countries, and the MarAd capital construction fund program.
- American Bar Association
- Equipment Leasing and Finance Association
- Board of Directors, 2017-2019
- Co-Chair, Air, Rail and Marine Subcommittee
- Member, Women’s Council
- Former Member, Legal Committee
- Former chair of the Marine Financing Committee of the Maritime Law Association of the United States
- Named “Lawyer of the Year” for Admiralty and Maritime Law in Washington D.C. by The Best Lawyers in America, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2024 (by BL Rankings)
- Listed in “The Best Lawyers in America” for Admiralty and Maritime Law, 2010-2024 (by BL Rankings)
- Listed in “Washington D.C. Super Lawyers,” 2013-2022 (by Thomson Reuters)
- Recipient of the Edward A. Groobert Award for Legal Excellence from the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, 2019
- Elected Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, 2015
- Co-Author, “Equipment Leasing-Leveraged Leasing (5th Edition)” Chapter 9, Commercial Vessels, published by Practicing Law Institute
Published: November 2010, Supplement Date: September 2017 - Co-Author, “Coast Guard issues new citizenship ‘Mechanisms of Compliance’”
November 28, 2012 - Co-Author, “Financing Vessels with the Capital Construction Fund Program”
ELT Magazine, March-April 2011 - Co-author, “Navigating Your Lease Through a Sea of Liens”
LJN’s Equipment Leasing Newsletter, July 2008
- Presented on the application of the Jones Act to offshore wind for the “Offshore Wind Energy Panel” at the Energy Bar Association (EBA)
Annual Meeting & Conference, May 2019 - Spoke about the maritime industry on the panel “Transport Finance in the Age of COVID: Aircraft, Trucks, and Vessels”
at the 2020 ELFA Business Live!, October 2020
After my first trip to Italy, I was determined to learn Italian. I have been there a dozen times, and I still have places to see!