Four questions to settle before signature: the VAT treatment, whether the buyer can keep the French flag, sanctions screening, and how the price is secured through escrow.
Selling a yacht to a foreign buyer: VAT, flag, sanctions and payment Read Post »
Where French ship mortgages are recorded since 2023, how to read a statement of registrations, why a clear statement proves little, and how discharge is coordinated with payment.
Ship mortgages: how to check that a vessel is unencumbered Read Post »
The clause transfers to the buyer every defect a reasonable survey could have revealed. What it leaves standing, why English and French law read it differently, and how to amend the form.
MYBA contract: what as is, where is really means, and how to protect yourself Read Post »
Title, mortgages and liens, VAT status, CE conformity, flag, sanctions, history, survey, contract, and whether to buy the boat or the company that owns it.
Buying a yacht abroad: the ten checks before you sign Read Post »
A ship can be immobilised in a French port within hours on a claim that merely appears well founded. Which court, which vessel, how release works, and the one-month deadline.
Arresting a ship in France to secure a maritime claim Read Post »
Since the end of 2023, the rerouting of maritime traffic via the Cape of Good Hope to avoid the Red
A Filipino, Indian or Ukrainian seafarer signs in Manila, Mumbai or Odessa an English-language contract with a company established in
Seafarer recruitment and placement: the six points that decide the shipowner’s liability Read Post »
A cargo interest receives, one day, a document headed general average adjustment: a few dozen pages, a final table, a
General average adjustment: who draws it up, what it contains, how to challenge it Read Post »
General average is one of the rare mechanisms in which the law asks a victim to pay. The master deliberately
General average and liability: who contributes, in what proportion, and who to pursue Read Post »
French maritime law knows not one contract but some fifteen distinct contracts, each with its own regime, its own compensation
