Those wishing to operate in shipping must either build or buy boats. This inevitably involves the resolution of questions of ship finance, an independent and complicated area of the law. The range of our services comprises classic financing of a one ship company up to fiduciary shareholding in fleet funds, drafting the complete contract documentation for fund projects, the drafting and processing of sale- and purchase contracts including the pertaining financing packages of loan capital and equity up to the registration of vessel and mortgage.
Our clients are financial services firms, investment companies, banks, German “KG-Houses” as well as ship owners. Our advice in this regard extends from drafting sale and purchase contracts to financing and the registration of ships and mortgages, from “plain vanilla”-transactions to trustee investments in fleet-funds.