2nd Annual Offshore Aircraft Registration

July 13, 2012 9:34 AM

Following the success of the Summit in 2011, the 2nd Annual event,  from Thursday 20th to Friday 21st September 2012
at the Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino
, will explore a variety of issues such as reasons for registering an aircraft offshore, legal issues, 

the process of registering an aircraft and requirements, protection of third party interests, aircraft surveys, inspection of maintenance facilities, air safety regulatory issues, air navigation services regulatory issues, commercial affairs regulatory issues, the impact of aircraft valuations, defaults and repossessions, negotiating lease contracts, the Cape Town Convention, the pre-purchase inspection process, aircraft insurance, legal aspects of aircraft registration, mitigating risk, customs issues.
 
CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
- The Bermuda Register: a win/win for Owners and Operators
- Technical challenges and airworthiness implications for offshore registered aircraft: What the operators need to know
- Business aircraft values
- Aircraft Repossession for Aircraft Registered Offshore
- Legal and fiscal issues of aircraft registration in Aruba: What the owner needs to know
- Legal aspects of aircraft financing in Aruba
- Taxation issues of aircraft registration in Aruba
- Possibilities for Sharia-compliant aircraft financing in Aruba using a Curacao trust or private foundation
 
KEYNOTE ADDRESS SPEAKER
ing. Mike de Meza, Minister of Finance, Communications, Utilities & Energy,
Vice Prime Minister, Government of Aruba
 
CONFERENCE CHAIRED BY
Simon Arends, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Tourism, Transportation & Labor, Special Projects,
Ministry of Tourism, Transportation & Labor
 
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
- Peter Adhemar, Head of Operations, Bermuda Department of Civil Aviation
- Jorge C. Colindres Marinakis, President & CEO, The Registry of Aruba
- Laurien C. Dumas, Attorney-at law, VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne
- Lincoln D. Gomez, Managing Partner & Chairman of the Aviation Finance Practice Group, Gomez & Bikker Law Offices
- Fiona Healy, Legal Counsel, Aircraft Corporate Services (Malta)
- Yves Lavigne, President, World Assets Transition (WAT)
- Chris Miller, Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
- Dinesh Mishre, Attorney at Law, Spigthoff Attorneys at Law & Tax Advisers 
- Hans Ruiter, Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aruba
- C.A. Southerland, President, Aviation Professionals Group
- David Thompson Norton, Shackelford, Melton & McKinley
 
Download the Conference agenda here
 

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