Global Transportation Finance Shareholder John F. Imhof Jr recently co-authored, with recently retired Vedder Price Shareholder Francis X. Nolan, III, a chapter on the Financing of Vessels in LexisNexis/Matthew Bender’s treatise on Equipment Leasing. The chapter provides an in-depth analysis of the legal aspects of vessel financing, including registration, finance charters, mortgages and other maritime liens, arrests, foreclosures, bankruptcy and restructuring, with particular focus on the maritime laws of the United States and leading open-registry states Liberia and the Marshall Islands.  The chapter also contains an analysis of the recently adopted Beijing Convention on the Judicial Sale of Ships.  Global Transportation Finance Associate John H. Geager assisted with the preparation of the chapter. 

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