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Aviation Finance & Leasing 2025: Law And Practice

The Cayman Islands currently have no form of income, corporate or capital gains tax and no estate duty, inheritance tax or gift tax. Stamp duty may be payable on documents executed in, or brought to, the Cayman Islands...

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Walkers

Navigating 2025: Top Trends In Aircraft Financing And Leasing In The Cayman Islands And Ireland

In 2025, the landscape of aircraft financing and leasing is set to be influenced by several significant trends, particularly in key jurisdictions like the Cayman Islands and Ireland.

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Maples Group

Amendments To Air Navigation (Overseas Territories) Orders 2024

Two key UK statutory instruments which apply to Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands are amended.

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Walkers

Aviation Finance & Leasing 2024: Cayman Islands

Typically, aircraft financing structures involving Cayman Islands entities make use of special-purpose vehicles ("SPVs"), which are set up specifically to participate in aircraft financing and/or leasing transactions.

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Ready, Jet, Go!

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Conyers

Aviation Law 2024: Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Soaring Ahead: The Latest Trends And Developments In Aircraft Finance

Cayman Islands Transport

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Cayman Finance

Navigating The Skies Post-Pandemic: Top Trends In Aircraft Financing And Leasing In The Cayman Islands And Ireland

European Union Transport

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Maples Group

Aircraft Financing – What You Need To Know About Using A Cayman Orphan SPV Structure

Cayman Islands Finance

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Cayman Finance

Carey Olsen Aviation Bulletin 2023/2024: Aircraft Repossession - Using A Cayman Islands Trust To Hold The Aircraft

Cayman Islands Transport

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Carey Olsen

10 Things You Need To Know About… Registering An Aircraft In The Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Conyers

Cayman Islands Aircraft Registry Features At Las Vegas Business Aviation Tradeshow

Cayman Islands Transport

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Cayman Finance

Aviation Finance & Leasing Review 2023/24: Aviation In The Cayman Islands - The Sky's The Limit

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Aviation Finance & Leasing Guide 2023: Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Tempering The Wind To The Shorn Lamb (Case Note): Stevens v Hotel Portfolio II UK Limited [2025] UKSC 28

Cayman Islands Commercial

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Appleby

Alternative Investment Funds 2025: Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Finance

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Maples Group

A Guide To Offshore Trusts In The Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Family

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Nelsons Legal

Cayman Islands Launches 2025-2026 National Risk Assessment

Cayman Islands Finance

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Cayman Islands Government

Webinar: Digital Assets – Innovation Vs Compliance: Emerging Offshore Jurisdictional Trends – How Legal Advisers' Roles Will Change

Worldwide Technology

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Walkers

Aviation Finance & Leasing 2023: Cayman Islands

Typically, aircraft financing structures involving Cayman Islands entities make use of special-purpose vehicles ("SPVs"), which are set up specifically to participate...

Cayman Islands Finance

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Maples Group

Ten Reasons To Register An Aircraft In The Cayman Islands

We have highlighted below ten of the key reasons owners, financiers and operators regard the Cayman Islands as the jurisdiction of choice for aircraft registrations.

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Investing In Aviation: Private Placement Please?

The resilience demonstrated by the commercial aviation sector to recover as strongly as it has from the impact of the Covid pandemic and subsequent market challenges has been remarkable.

Worldwide Transport

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Walkers

Aviation Finance & Leasing Guide 2022: Ireland

Whether there will be any VAT payable on the sale of an aircraft is determined by its physical location at the point of sale. If the aircraft is physically located in Ireland at the time...

European Union Transport

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Walkers

Latam Airlines: Chapter 11 Plan Of Reorganisation Takes Flight

Cayman Islands Insolvency

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Walkers

Aviation: Finance & Leasing Guide 2022

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Superyacht Investor: Next Big Thing

Cayman Islands Transport

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Conyers

Aviation Finance & Leasing 2022: Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Aviation Finance & Leasing 2022: Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Aircraft Financing – A Brief Guide To Cayman

Cayman Islands Finance

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Appleby

Investor Confidence Remains Strong

Cayman Islands Finance

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Walkers

Aviation Law 2022: Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Aviation Law 2022: British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

‘How To…' Guides: Transitional Aircraft Registration With The Civil Aviation Authority Of The Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Investor Confidence Remains Strong

Increased access to the capital markets has seen the return of aircraft ABS deals far sooner than anyone had predicted with issuances in 2021 close to pre-pandemic levels.

Cayman Islands Finance

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Walkers

Aviation Law 2022: Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is a British Overseas Territory. The Secretary of State of the United Kingdom Government takes lead responsibility for ensuring that the Cayman Islands (and other overseas territories)...

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Aviation Law 2022: British Virgin Islands

Please list and briefly describe the principal legislation and regulatory bodies which apply to and/or regulate aviation in your jurisdiction.

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

‘How To…' Guides: Transitional Aircraft Registration With The Civil Aviation Authority Of The Cayman Islands

There are many reasons why an aircraft may require temporary registration and the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands (the ‘CAACI') is open for transitional registration projects (‘Transition Projects').

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Aviation: Structuring In A Time Of Recovery

Worldwide Transport

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Walkers

Asset Loyalty Programmes

Airlines have discovered a novel way to raise capital during and following the challenging economic times of 2020 by using loyalty programmes as security against the debt.

Cayman Islands Finance

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Walkers

Aviation Law Review 2021: Cayman Islands

In the Cayman chapter of the International Comparative Legal Guide to Aviation Law 2021, Sherice Arman, Shari Howell and Nick Herrod give a comprehensive overview of aviation law and regulations in the Cayman Islands.

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Carey Olsen Aviation Bulletin 2020/2021: The Cape Town Convention Five Years On

The Cape Town Convention came into force in the Cayman Islands on 1 November 2015 introducing registrable 'international interests' in respect of aircraft and aircraft engines...

Cayman Islands Transport

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Carey Olsen

Liquidity Boosted By Loyalty: Creative Collateral

2020 was a crippling year for the aviation industry. With daily cash burn running into the tens of millions of dollars for many airlines, access to liquidity has been critical as treasury teams

Cayman Islands Insolvency

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Walkers

Aviation 2020: Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Aviation Financing & Leasing

Cayman Islands Finance

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Walkers

Walkers & CAACI: FAQ On Transitional Registration Of Aircraft (Video)

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Walkers & CAACI: FAQ On Transitional Registration Of Aircraft

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Cayman Islands Transition Register – A Safe Landing Spot In Turbulent Times

Cayman Islands Transport

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Conyers

Aircraft Repossession: Using A Cayman Islands Trust To Hold The Aircraft During Remarketing

Cayman Islands Finance

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Carey Olsen

Aviation Law 2020 - Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

The Cayman Islands Aircraft Register

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Chambers Global Practice Guide 2019: Ireland Aviation Financing & Leasing

Cayman Islands Transport

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Walkers

Aircraft Registration In The Cayman Islands: Temporary Registration Of Aircraft In Transition

Cayman Islands Transport

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Carey Olsen

Ten Reasons To Register An Aircraft In The Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Cayman Grand Court Refuses To Enforce Foreign Arbitral Award In Favour Of Brazilian Airline

Cayman Islands Litigation

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Campbells

Aviation Law 2019: Cayman Islands

Cayman Islands Transport

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Maples Group

Five Key Insights From Airline Economics Growth Frontiers Hong Kong 2018

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Intertrust

Looming Deadlines In The Cayman Islands: Are You In Compliance?

Cayman Islands Commercial

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Conyers

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