The Shipping Guide of Chambers and Partners was published in August. The British publisher is known for its guides analyzing the market of legal services which it has been publishing since 1990.
Unlike those guides, the Shipping Guide deals with the law, not the lawyers. It focuses on the practical issues affecting business. Written with clients in mind – both in-house lawyers and senior management – it explains some of the key issues in this practice area in the most significant jurisdictions in the world (among which the PRC, the USA, Russia, the UK, Singapore, Panama, Brazil, Greece and Malta)
The Shipping Guide analyses, for example, important questions about registration of vessels, whether a drilling platform or an FPSO is a vessel, how are maritime liens and mortgages recorded and/or ranked, how are mortgages enforced, how are vessel charters treated in insolvency proceedings, what rights do creditors have in bankruptcy and whether secondary loan trades impact rights in collateral, to name a few.
Zunarelli – Studio Legale Associato has authored the Italy section, which can be read free of charge at http://www.chambersandpartners.com/guide/practice-guides/location/290/8968/2686-200.
