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Lorna-Jane Gittings

Associate Solicitor

Lorna-Jane is an associate at Hannaford Turner, with a predominant focus on transactional commercial shipping and superyacht-related legal matters.

Commercial Shipping
Lorna-Jane has extensive experience in a broad range of commercial shipping matters, and she is actively involved in ship sale and purchase, ship construction, ship finance and corporate work. She has significant involvement acting for major ship owning companies engaged in high-value ship sale and purchase transactions, covering the entire spectrum of commercial shipping from fishing vessels to oil tankers and asphalt carriers. Lorna-Jane has developed vital and long-standing relationships with international ship registries, managers and brokers to ensure each transaction is handled with attention and efficiency.

Superyachts
Lorna-Jane has assisted with a range of superyacht and luxury asset transactions, including acting for buyers and sellers of superyachts, tenders and support vessels, from the negotiation and drafting of yacht sale and purchase contracts to the handling of superyacht closings and deliveries.

  • Lorna-Jane has worked with a variety of clients throughout her career, acting for owners and operators as well as financiers and lenders.
  • Lorna-Jane works closely with a leading energy and commodities company, providing legal counsel to them on a variety of issues relating to vessel sale and purchase, charter and shipbuilding. Lorna-Jane’s work has frequently seen her involved in the negotiation of ship sale agreements for high-value vessels, some exceeding $100,000,000 in value.
  • Acted for the purchaser of an asphalt carrier newbuilding
  • Acted for the seller in an en-bloc sale of two crude oil tankers
  • Acted for the purchaser of two car carriers worth a combined $43,500,000
  • Acted for the purchaser of a $33,000,000 second-hand oil tanker.
  • Acted for the seller of an en-bloc sale of four tankers with a combined value of over $85,000,000.
  • Acted for the owner in a purchase and on-sale of an LPG tanker worth $17,500,000.