The Law of Ship Mortgages

Getting the ship mortgage right is critical in today’s climate, with foreclosures happening daily. This fully-updated and comprehensive explanation provides practitioners with a practical, commercially-based and definitive guide to the English law of ship mortgages as well as important related areas such as conflict of laws and insolvency. David Osborne from leading ship finance firm Watson, Farley & Williams has joined forces with Graeme Bowtle to produce this second edition of the only title currently available on the subject of ship mortgages.

New to this edition:

• Comparative international guidance at the end of each relevant chapter, written in collaboration with practitioners from pertinent overseas jurisdictions and summarizing the key differences to English Law

• An in-depth analysis of noteworthy cases such as Blue Sky One Limited and Others v Mahan Air and Another

• Enhanced coverage of issues such as security interests in ships, priority, and third party involvement

• Completely revised and reordered content, to better reflect practitioner needs

This book will be extremely useful for shipping practitioners worldwide, arbitrators, shipbrokers and marine insurance brokers, as well as academics and postgraduate students.

David Osborne is a partner specialising in asset and project finance at Watson, Farley & Williams.

Graeme Bowtle is a retired solicitor and consultant with Richards Butler (now Reed Smith).