Klaus Dimigen

Industry Sector Expertise

Ship Finance

Ship sale and purchase

Restructuring

Arrest and compulsory auction of ships

Registration

Shipbuilding and Repair

Dispute Resolution

Cruise

Marshall Island law

General commercial law

Practice Areas

Klaus Dimigen gives advice to shipowners regarding the sale and purchase of vessels and the entering into charter and management contracts. He assists banks as well as shipowners in the area of long term ship financing loans, the establishment and separation of banking syndicates related to long term ship financings and in connection with the termination, enforcement and transfer of shipping loans. He also supports shipowners on all corporate and insolvency related issues. Finally, he advises non bank capital providers in connection with alternative ship financing models and structures.

Being admitted for practice in Germany, Klaus works on all German law related matters, such as account pledges or matters related to entities incorporated in Germany and contentious matters, whether related to shipping or not.

Klaus Dimigen enjoys a long lasting relationship with Turkish shipowners and shipping banks. Further, he is admitted to practice in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. He provides opinion letters related to this jurisdiction, gives advice on corporate matters and pursues contentious matters at the High Court in Majuro, Marshall Islands. Also, the Marshall Islands law related work is not entirely related to shipping.

Klaus Dimigen has held various lectures, workshops and seminars for clients on selected legal topics. He is a lecturer at the HSBA – Hamburg School of Business Administration and teaches on aspects of “Maritime Law” for the part-time course Shipping (MBA).

Career

Klaus Dimigen is recommended as a leading and recommended maritime lawyer by Chambers Global, JUVE Handbuch and Who’s Who Legal. In 2022, Chambers has set out that “market sources consider him the main person in Europe for Marshall Islands shipping issues.”

Professional Memberships

Klaus Dimigen is a member of the International Bar Association.

Publications

1998: Developments in US Environmental Law: Liability Risks of the Lender

RIW 4-1998

1999: Bareboatcharter und Bareboatregistrierung

LIT Verlag, Münster, Hamburg, London, 1999

2008: Bridge equity financing for shipping funds

Grundlagen der Schiffsfinanzierung, Frankfurt School Verlag, 2008

2008: Flag and registration

Grundlagen der Schiffsfinanzierung, Frankfurt School Verlag, 2008

Advance payment financings of used tonnage

Grundlagen der Schiffsfinanzierung, Frankfurt School Verlag, 2008

Collateral for pre-delivery financings

Grundlagen der Schiffsfinanzierung, Frankfurt School Verlag, 2008

2021: Marshall Islands

Lexology Getting the Deal Through / Shipping 2021