Programme

0830: Registration and refreshments

0900 - 0910: Introduction

0910 - 0940: "Ship Managers in the Firing Line" Mark O'Neil/Antonia Panayides, Reed Smith

This talk will look at:

• Extending Contractual Termination Rights
• Managers' Undertakings to Mortgagees
• Judicial sale and working with the Banks
• Rights to recover outstandings: agent or principal?
• Improving the Manager's Arsenal - Rights of Arrest, Lien rights and rights to Suspend

0940 - 1010: "The Route of the Problem" - Passage Planning and Seaworthiness - Ron Clark, Reed Smith

1010 - 1040: "Securing your Claim" – Jeb Clulow/James Cottrell, Reed Smith

We will be considering inventive ways to obtain security and enforce awards and judgments in the post Rule B attachment of electronic transfers world, including: arrest of vessels/assets, freezing injunctions, Anton Piller orders, other forms of Rule B attachments, share arrests

1040 – 1110: Coffee

1110 – 1150: "Counterparty Risk; legal considerations when the big Operators falter" - Mark O'Neil/Antonia Panayides, Reed Smith & Sian Morris, Lawyer, European Syndicate, Steamship Insurance Management Services Ltd

This talk will look at the legal position of Owners when their large Charterers run into financial difficulty/ declare bankruptcy (such as recent Sanko, KLC insolvencies)

1150 – 1210: Sanctions Update - Helle Kjaerstad, Reed Smith

1210 - 1250: "Banks won't lend? Alternative financing/funding approaches" - Paul Leand CEO, AMA USA

1250 – 1400: Lunch

1400 – 1440: "Cyprus; How advantageous is it as a location for vessel operators/managers?" – Cleo Papadopoulou, PWC Cyprus