NEW INTERNATIONAL AVIATION SALES, FINANCE AND LEASE OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NETHERLANDS AND DUTCH CARIBBEAN
Facilitated by the Cape Town Convention
Friday 25th May 2012
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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CONFERENCE CHAIRED BY
Lincoln D. Gomez, Attorney-at-law, Managing Partner, Gomez & Bikker Law Offices,
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
Ilona M. Crommentuijn, Corporate Legal Counsel, Schiphol Group, Amsterdam Airport
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
- Timo J. van Rijn, Director Client Services, TMF Netherlands, Amsterdam
- Dr. Niels van Antwerpen, Vice President Legal, AerCap
- Mark Nieuwendijk, Managing Director, AerData, Amsterdam Airport
- J. Michael Milo, Associate Professor of Law, Expert on aviation secured interests, floating charges, trusts and other areas of law, University Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Ilaria de Lucia, Director Client Services, TMF Netherlands, Amsterdam
- Bert van Leeuwen, Managing Director - Global Head of Aviation Research, DVB Bank, Rotterdam
- Fiona Kettner, Senior Transaction Manager, TMF Netherlands, Amsterdam
- Patrick Honnebier, Of Counsel, Gomez & Bikker Law Offices, Amsterdam, Lecturer International Aviation Finance Law at the International Institute of Air and Space Law, University Leiden, The Netherlands
- Hans Hekker, Mitshubishi Aircraft Corporation & CEO, Aviation Contractors Europe, The Netherlands
- Boris den Hartog, Attorney-at-law, Expert Litigator, Amsterdam and previously attorney-at-law in the Dutch Caribbean, Member of the Dutch Aviation Group
- Ton Franssen, Project Manager Civil Aviation Dutch Caribbean, Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate Team Caribbean, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, The Hague
- Laurien C. Dumas, Attorney-at-law, VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne, Curacao, Dutch Caribbean
- Alex Berkhout, Senior Tax Lawyer, Nexia Horlings Tax Advisors, Amsterdam
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CONFERENCE OBJECTIVE:
While the Netherlands has a long-standing reputation in the international aviation, banking and taxation practice, this is the first international aviation sales, finance and lease conference that is organised in this state. Its goal is to announce the new legal and fiscal regimes governing aircraft and engines transactions which are purposefully structured to have connections with the various parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Dutch and foreign manufacturers, financiers, lessors and airlines may “choose” the secured rights protecting their substantial financial interests and the tax regime that suit their certain (off-shore) transaction best. The conference focuses on the major advantages of the accession of the Kingdom to the Cape Town Convention in 2010. While the treaty has entered into force in the Caribbean parts of the Kingdom, for example in Aruba, it is not yet applicable in the Netherlands in Europe. Nevertheless, the convention already applies in Bonaire which is a ‘special city’ of the European Netherlands since 10 October 2010. However, geographically Bonaire is situated in the Caribbean.
The result of this unique situation is that foreign and Dutch parties to international sales, finance and lease agreements can register their aircraft as to nationality in their “preferred” part of the Kingdom. For example, overseas owners and financiers of aircraft may choose the Aruba flag. Their aircraft get the nationality and the registration prefix ‘P4’ of Aruba. This option ensures that they can enforce their rights under the Cape Town Convention. On the other hand, new or established Dutch or foreign airlines and their lessors which prefer the Dutch flag may also benefit from the Cape Town Convention. They can structure their leases through Bonaire (i.e. the Netherlands), while their aircraft keep or obtain the Dutch nationality and the registration prefix ‘PH’. Moreover, they may profit from the advantageous tax-treaties which the Netherlands has concluded with more than 90 states. Thus, the Cape Town Convention boosts various fiscal and legal scenarios that facilitate the (off-shore) registration, sale, finance and lease of modern and safe aircraft. These aircraft may be permanently operated in other states.
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WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
The Conference is intended for corporate and private aircraft owners, banks, other financial institutions, lessors, airlines, trust companies and their (in-house and external) tax lawyers, legal counsel, civil law notaries, accountants and all professionals with an interest in international aviation sales, finance and lease transactions. The particular goal of the Conference is to provide the delegates with topical and specialised practical knowledge. More specifically the Conference:
- Acknowledges the need and availability of the best aviation related trust services in the Netherlands and Dutch Caribbean.
- Discusses the wrongful application of the laws of the Netherlands in the English Blue Sky v. Mahan Air case (2010).
- Assesses one year of experience with the Cape Town Convention in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Addresses the latest fiscal and legal developments in this respect.
- Introduces a swift and cheap alternative for the expensive creation and registration of mortgages (hypotheken) in aircraft.
- Notes that the Cape Town Convention may cover the national “secured rights” of (Dutch) airlines to purchase or lease an aircraft.
- Aims to provide a solution to the existing global aircraft de-registration and re-registration problems.
- Stresses the international aviation finance friendly Courts in the Netherlands and Dutch Caribbean and their position under the new laws.
- Emphasises the valued airworthiness and safety-oversight standards of Aruba and the (Caribbean and European) Netherlands.
- Underlines that Bonaire Airport has the most modern, safest runway in the entire Caribbean region complying with the primary international ICAO regulations.
- Signals other pertinent matters that recently arose in the international aviation tax, sales, finance and lease practice.
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Luna Arena Building
Herikerbergweg 238
1101 CM Amsterdam Zuidoost
The Netherlands
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