Minister of Finance of Aruba to open the Offshore Aircraft Registration Summit

July 5, 2012 - PRLog -- The Registry of Aruba is the Prime Sponsor as well as the sponsor of the networking dinner.  In addition, the Aruba Airport Authority and the Aruba Tourism Authority are the sponsors of the pre-conference networking drinks reception.  AMTR, Gomez & Bikker, Kuster Law, and VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne are also among the main sponsors of the 2nd Annual Summit this September.

The Keynote Address speaker is ing. Mike de Meza, Minister of Finance, Communications, Utilities & Energy, Vice Prime Minister, Government of Aruba.
The conference will be chaired by Mr. Simon Arends, Senior Advisor to the Minister of Tourism, Transportation & Labor, Special Projects, Ministry of Tourism, Transportation & Labor.

Following the success of the Summit in 2011, this major event will explore a variety of issues such as reasons for registering an aircraft in Aruba, the Bermuda register, technical challenges and airworthiness implications for offshore registered aircraft, business aircraft values, aircraft repossession for aircraft registered offshore, legal and fiscal issues of aircraft registration in Aruba, legal aspects of aircraft financing in Aruba, taxation issues of aircraft registration in Aruba, and possibilities for Sharia-compliant aircraft financing in Aruba using a Curacao trust or private foundation.

Expert speakers will contribute with their knowledge and experience and they include Peter Adhemar (Head of Operations, Bermuda Department of Civil Aviation), Jorge C. Colindres Marinakis (President & CEO, The Registry of Aruba), Laurien C. Dumas (Attorney-at law, VanEps Kunneman VanDoorne), Lincoln D. Gomez (Managing Partner and Chairman of the Aviation Finance Practice Group, Gomez & Bikker Law Offices), Fiona Healy (Legal Counsel, Aircraft Corporate Services, Malta), Yves Lavigne (President, World Assets Transition), Chris Miller (Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners), Dinesh Mishre (Attorney at Law, Spigthoff Attorneys at Law & Tax Advisers), Hans Ruiter (Tax Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Aruba), C.A. Southerland (President, Aviation Professionals Group), and David Thompson Norton (Shackelford, Melton & McKinley).
This conference is organized by Aeropodium. For more information and to register, please visit the official website: www.aeropodium.com/cp/oar.html

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