Aviation

Pierre Naude (director) has been nominated and appears in Who’s Who Legal: Aviation2011.

Local and international aviation insurers, financiers, operators and other aviation concerns confer with our aviation team on enforcing commercial agreements, handling claims, policy wording and assessing liability and risk across the continent and abroad.

We have specialised in aviation and related aspects of aviation law for 30 years and offer our domestic and international clients the benefits of this experience and knowledge. Our unique approach to aviation regulation incorporates claims, liability and enforcing commercial financing and leasing agreements across Africa.

Our speciality products and services include:

• Advice on liability claims (hull, cargo, passengers and third parties)
• Interpretation and drafting of insurance policies
• Advice regarding policy response
• Advice regarding insurance claims
• Aircraft finance and corporate commercial transactions
• Enforcing commercial leasing and financing agreements
• Advice on air transportation regulation, including licensing and permits
• Annual workshops to the aviation  industry, which allow for an exchange of ideas and concepts
• Accident inquiries
• Analysis, interpretation and enforcement of international liability, financial and flying activity conventions including:
  • Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, 1929 (the Warsaw Convention)
  • The Guadalajara Convention, 1961
  • Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, 1999 (the Montreal Convention)
  • Convention on International Civil Aviation, 1944 (the Chicago Convention)
  • International Air Services Transit Agreement, 1944
  • Convention on the International Recognition of Rights in Aircraft, 1948 (the Geneva Convention)
  • Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, and the Protocol thereto, 2001 (the Cape Town Convention)

We offer:

• Close relationships with leading industry stakeholders, including insurance brokers, loss adjusters, insurers and the transport authorities across Africa, South Africa and abroad, assuring thorough, current aviation expertise.
• Global expertise feeding into our local knowledge, and vice versa, for a comprehensive, niche approach, incorporating claims, liability and enforcing commercial agreements, to your aviation law requirements.
  

Awards & Accolades

Best Lawyers International, Pierre Naude, Aviation, 2009