Transport & Logistics

Our multi-jurisdictional team specialise in advising on asset finance transactions for clients in the aviation, shipping, road, rail and logistics industries, as well as registration of aircraft and vessels.

Our expertise

Our Transport & Logistics team advise vessel and aircraft owners, rail operators, lessors, lessees, banks and other financial institutions on international transactions. We have deep and trusted relationships with numerous international law firms, shipping, aviation, rail and logistics groups, and financial institutions around the world.

Our team has extensive experience in advising on a broad range of aircraft, shipping, rail, road and logistics transactions, and regulation, including:

  • Loan/credit facility agreements and security documentation
  • High-yield debt offerings
  • Syndicated (secured) loan transactions
  • Off-balance sheet structures
  • Lease agreements
  • Asset securitisation structures and Islamic financing structures
  • Sale and acquisition of vessels, and the financing of such transactions
  • Registration of ships in Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Isle of Man
  • Registration of aircraft in Bermuda, BVI, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man and Jersey
  • Public equity offerings
  • Joint venture structures
  • Operating and finance lease structures
  • Shipping and marine insurance litigation
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When Local Law Diverges from the Global Maritime Order: The MV Wakashio Judgment and What It Means for Shipping in Mauritius

On 23 February 2026, the Supreme Court of Mauritius delivered its judgment in Okiyo Maritime Corp v The State of Mauritius & Ors [2026 SCJ 86]; a decision that resolves a long-pending question about the possibility to constitute a limitation fund in the wake of the MV Wakashio oil spill, but in doing so opens a more troubling one: what does it mean to operate a vessel in Mauritian waters when the domestic limitation regime diverges materially from the international framework that the rest of the shipping world relies upon?

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11 Mar 2026

Ship Arrest in Mauritius: Legal Certainty Under the 1952 Convention in a Changing Maritime Landscape

Mauritius is considered as an attractive option when considering ports in the region to secure maritime claims through in rem judicial proceedings namely ship arrest. While its strategic geographical position on the Western Indian Ocean marine highway as well as its well-tried regulatory framework on ship arrest do raise interests of maritime claimants, nevertheless, have also been raised as to the adequacy of the existing law governing ship arrest, in the light of the evolution of shipping business and heightened risks of damage and loss associated with maritime operations.