The latest edition of the Lexology Panoramic: Shipbuilding 2025 guide has been published. This guide covers shipbuilding in seven jurisdictions, with leading shipbuilding practitioners answering the same key questions on the following topics: participation and ownership; key contractual considerations; pricing, payment and financing; default liabilities and remedies; contract forms and assignment; and updates and trends.
The chapter on shipbuilding contracts governed by the law of England and Wales is written by Haynes Boone’s William Cecil, Fiona Cain and Mette Duffy. The chapter includes key developments in shipbuilding under the law of England and Wales and concludes which an updates and trends section which includes new information regarding sanctions, autonomous vessels and the new Arbitration Act 2025.
The law of England and Wales continues to be one of the preferred governing laws for shipbuilding contracts around the world (particularly where the buyers and the builders are based in different jurisdiction), even if the parties have no nexus with England and Wales.
Read the chapter here.
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