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

Stefan Rindfleisch is a member of the German Society for International Law of the Sea and of the German Maritime Arbitration Association.

Industry Sector Expertise

Ship Finance

Corporate law

Restructuring

Charter Contracts

Ship management contracts

Shipbuilding and Repair

Offshore

Superyachts

Marshall Island law

General commercial law