Comprehensively Yachts
Representing leading shipyards and prominent owners, providing legal advice on some of the world’s largest and most complex projects in the yacht industry.
LONG STANDING EXPERIENCE
Our yacht team has been an integral part of the yacht industry for over 30 years and has a physical presence in many of the major yachting jurisdictions.
The enduring relationships developed with the owners, builders, designers, financiers, insurers, brokers and managers of yachts, our in-depth knowledge of the yacht industry and our international reach ensures we are pre-eminent in the field.
Our yacht team is well positioned to assist with any aspect of constructing, purchasing and operating a yacht and we are routinely involved in some of the largest and most complex projects in the yacht industry.
“HFW’s advice is pragmatic and clear. They have a very broad and consistent level of service and expertise across all areas.”
Working with leading industry partners
WE CAN ASSIST IN:
- Design agreements and intellectual property issues
- Construction agreements
- Pre and post-delivery financing, restructuring and work out arrangements
- Yacht sale and purchase transactions
- Ownership structures
- Registration arrangements
- Import and export formalities
- VAT & Customs issues
- Management agreements
- Crewing and employment matters
- Refit and repair contracts
- Charter agreements
- Sale and purchase of berths
- Physical and cyber security arrangements
- Health, safety and regulatory compliance
- Business jets and helicopters
- Tenders, submersibles and other ancillary equipment
- Yacht arrest and dispute resolution
- Admiralty and crisis management
- Insurance arrangements, including questions of coverage
Yachts crisis management
Our team is universally regarded as one of the world’s leading crisis management law firms, we advise on all legal issues arising from yacht related emergencies able to be practically anywhere in the world within 24 hours.
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OUR GLOBAL NETWORK
We have a strong international brand and a rapidly growing network of offices. With lawyers working in offices across Asia, Australia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas, we have a presence in many of the major centres of yacht ownership and operation in the world.
Frequently we resource our matters with team members drawn from different offices and time zones to provide our clients, wherever they are, with the resources of a truly global yacht team.
Our yacht team includes lawyers fluent in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and Chinese and is able to draw on the support of colleagues across our wider firm who between them speak over 40 different languages.
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