Aviation & Super Yacht Law
Our expertise, grounded by years of experience, allows us to advise on a wide range of legal matters surrounding acquiring and managing clients’ luxury assets.
We regularly support our clients across the entire yacht and private aviation purchase and ownership process, including drafting and negotiating sale and purchase agreements and management agreements, to the importation across various jurisdictions including Europe, Asia and Middle East. Alongside this, our team are also skilled in providing bespoke solutions to various complexities involved within the sale process, including:
- Coordinating pre-purchase surveys and inspections
- Advising on ownership structures, financing, and registration
- Resolving any arising disputes
- Managing ancillary documentation
We regularly work with internationally mobile and globally based clients to deliver tailored solutions on a range of diverse matters surrounding their luxury yachts, private jets, and helicopter assets and are highly adept in advising on the relevant legal and tax framework within which our clients operate.
We provide holistic advice to our clients as long-term trusted advisors, where we work seamlessly with advisors from across our private client and tax, family and corporate and commercial teams to provide long-term succession planning advice on both contentious and non-contentious luxury asset matters.
Our Recent Experience:
- Advising on the sale and purchase of a number of business and private jets including drafting, negotiating and settling the purchase agreement
- Advising on the restructuring of the ownership of a super yacht, including advice in relation to its private and commercial charter use, and importation into the EU for use in the Mediterranean
- Advising on the purchase of a super yacht, including agreement and completion of the build process, the ownership structure, crew arrangements and advice in relation to the use of the yacht for its use as a commercial charter yacht
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