The BVI is a member of the British Red Ensign Group and is one of only a limited number of unrestricted Category One Red Ensign (British) Registry centres around the world capable of registering all types of yachts and ships. The Virgin Islands Shipping Registry is the maritime administration in the BVI with primary responsibility for ship registration and exercise of port state control.

Our shipping and aircraft lawyers have acted for some of the world’s leading financial institutions, law firms, shipbuilders, yacht brokers, ship and aircraft owners and charterers. Our aircraft practice centres on aircraft financing involving BVI corporate entities.

Our services include:

• Ship and aircraft registration
• Ship and aircraft finance matters
• Ship and aircraft mortgage registration

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Johann advises local and foreign institutional and private clients on a wide variety of commercial and real property matters.  He has advised on every major infrastructural development project in the BVI for the last decade and advises lenders in financing transactions and generally in relation to BVI banking law. Johann’s client base includes statutory bodies and central government who he advises on a range of public law matters including public sector governance, the exercise of statutory power and legislative reform.

With expertise in both the BVI and the Cayman Islands, Johann assists clients with all aspects of the acquisition, registration, financing, disposal and operation of ships.

Johann sits as a director on the boards of private sector entities and has served as the BVI Bar Association representative on the Maritime Advisory Board. He is also a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and is a notary public in the BVI.

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