Stefan Rindfleisch
Europe Guide 2024
Band 1 : Transportation: Shipping: Finance
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About
Provided by Stefan Rindfleisch
Practice Areas
Stefan Rindfleisch specializes in the field of structured maritime financing. He has participated in numerous domestic and international fleet financings and restructurings, as well as in the intricacies of container financings and syndications. Stefan Rindfleisch has comprehensive experience in special forms of financing, such as domestic and international bareboat and lease financing (e.g., UK Tax Leases), maritime promissory notes and loan securitisation (pooling and repackaging of cash flow producing financial assets into securities that are then sold to investors). Another of his areas of expertise involves the advice to private equity, hedge funds and institutional investors on their investment activities in the shipping sector. Stefan Rindfleisch is a registered lawyer admitted to practice in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Stefan Rindfleisch is co-author of the handbook “Grundlagen der Schiffsfinanzierung” (basics of shipping finance) and of the book “Maritime Law – Current Developments and Perspectives“. Further, he holds various lectures, workshops and seminars for clients on selected legal topics.
Career
Stefan Rindfleisch is recommended as a leading maritime lawyer by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, Legal 500, JUVE Handbuch and Who’s Who Legal.
Professional Memberships
German Society for International Law of the Sea
German Maritime Arbitration Association
Chambers Review
Europe
Leading practitioner Stefan Rindfleisch is held in high esteem for his considerable expertise in ship financing mandates. National and international investment funds, banks as well as ship owners seek his assistance with sale-and-leaseback transactions, the financing of new vessels, the acquisition of vessels via auctions and bareboat financing.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Stefan Rindfleisch is a very good lawyer and has been in the sector for decades."
"Stefan Rindfleisch is a very good lawyer and has been in the sector for decades."