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Professor Ignacio Tirado

PhD, PhD, LLM

Professor Ignacio Tirado (PhD, PhD, LLM) is currently Secretary-General of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). He has worked in international commercial law reform for over a decade in more than 20 jurisdictions.

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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