The English Court of Appeal has recently revisited the thorny issue of Legal Advice Privilege, providing some much-needed clarification on when it will apply, particularly in the context of communications sent to multiple addressees.
This is a milestone transaction as it represents one of the world’s first completed Japanese operating lease financing for vessels which has involved a Chinese leasing company.
The credit facility will be used to refinance 31 vessels as well as repay circa US$455m of Teekay Tankers’ existing debt and extend balloon maturities from 2020/2021 until the end of 2024.
In this article we discuss the proposed amendments to Singapore’s International Arbitration Act.
In this article, we consider how the enactment of the Multimodal Transport Act (2005) has impacted air and ocean carriers and freight forwarders, how the law has been applied and interpreted, and what lessons have been learnt.
On October 10, 2019, the Marshall Islands was removed from the European Union’s blacklist of non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes.
The deal partially refinances the acquisition of the two largest container vessels in the world: the MSC Gülsün and the MSC Samar.
How can we ensure the future success of both the maritime industry and the environment? We will be exploring this question at London International Shipping Week, the UK’s leading annual industry gathering.
“We are extremely pleased to have worked on this transaction, which represents a trend towards more structured financings involving new players in the Asian maritime markets such as investment firms.”
The English courts have recently granted an interim anti-suit injunction… Read more
Antonis Lagadianos and Tamara Ristic dicuss the repercussions of the English High Court’s recent decision regarding exclusion clauses.
We advised NASDAQ listed Star Bulk on the acquisition of 11 dry bulk vessels from Delphin Shipping in a shares and cash transaction.