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Hamza Hameed

Hamza Hameed is a Legal Consultant at the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). He is also Co-Chair of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC). Hamza holds an LLM from the International Institute for Air and Space Law at Leiden University. He teaches spacecraft financing at various universities and is a member of the International Institute for Space Law (IISL) and INSOL International.

h.hameed@unidroit.org

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Spacecraft financing: an international secured transactions regime for space assets

This article examines the present state of play in spacecraft financing, paying particular attention to the prospect of asset-based financing in the space sector. The article focuses on the Space Protocol of the Cape Town Convention, which is an international secured transactions law framework specifically for the space sector and examines how this can benefit the industry.

1 FEB 2023