This fully updated and comprehensive 3rd edition of The Law of Ship Mortgages provides readers with a practical, commercially based and definitive guide to the English law of ship mortgages.
David Osborne recently retired as a partner in Watson Farley & Williams LLP after a career of more than 40 years as an asset finance lawyer (covering both secured lending and leasing), primarily in the shipping and offshore energy sectors. He has written extensively on the subject in legal and industry periodicals and has served on two International Working Groups of the Comité Maritime International (CMI).
Charles Buss is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Group of Watson Farley & Williams LLP. He specialises in banking and maritime litigation and arbitration and has extensive experience advising mortgagees and financial lessors in security enforcements, restructurings and insolvencies. He also regularly acts for ship owners and charterers in relation to dry shipping disputes under charterparties, shipbuilding contracts, ship sale and purchase contracts and marine insurance policies.
Joanne Champkins is Knowledge Counsel in the Dispute Resolution Group of Watson Farley & Williams LLP. She has more than 20 years' experience in litigation and arbitration, with extensive expertise in the maritime sector, in particular marine insurance, dry shipping, enforcement and complex offshore construction disputes.