Quaynote is delighted to return with Understanding Superyacht & Business Jet Tax, the one-day international event to be held in Barcelona, Spain on Wednesday, 15th October, 2025. The conference seeks to demystify complex rules, ownership structures, VAT – and much more – across multiple jurisdictions.
Targeting charter & sales brokers, charterers, tax advisors, corporate service providers, lawyers, family offices and policy-makers, Understanding Superyacht & Business Jet Tax is produced by Quaynote Communications, event management, PR and marketing specialists in the yacht and private jet industries for 19 years.
Our speakers will shed light on some of the thorniest tax issues that anyone involved in owning, chartering, operating or managing a superyacht or business jet needs to grapple with.
You can register for the conference using the button above. For information on speaking, sponsoring please contact: Alison Singhal – alison@quaynote.com or tel: 44 7786 543898
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Session One: Welcome to the Conference
08.00
Registration and Welcome
9.00
Welcome to the Conference
Conference Organisers Opening Remarks
Lorna Titley, Quaynote
09.05
Opening Statement and Presentation:
* UPDATE: The Superyacht & Aviation VAT Think Tank
Alex Chumillas, Tax Marine & Aviation Spain
Jean-Philippe Maslin, Richemont Delviso
Session Two: Open Debate
09.20
Panel: What is the role of non-VAT territories in asset transactions?
Moderated by: Ayuk Ntuiabane, Managing Partner, Yacht & Aviation VAT
Panellists to include:
Amelie de Franssu, Stream Law
Joana Maldonado Reis,
Advogada | Professional Partner, Abreu Advogados (confirmed)
Carla Bellieni, Partner, Studio Piana Illuzzi Queirolo Trabattoni (confirmed)
Joe Francis, director, PFK Francis
10.30
Refreshments
Session Three: Yachting (VAT)
11.00
Quick Fixes – Review and impact on Yachts sales
Moderated by: Geraldine Spiteri, Advocate, Asteria Advisory
Panellists Include:
Yamandu Rodriguez Caorsi, Lawyer, Nauta Legal Abogados
Berardo Lanci, Lawyer / Partner, Valuable Assets Management /
VAM Tax & Corporate Firm
Miguel Ángel Serra, Founding Partner, LegalLey
Session Four: Aviation (tax pitfalls in aviation finance and lease structures)
11.50
Case Study - Corporate tax pitfalls in aviation finance and lease structures
Joana Maldonado Reis, Advogada | Professional Partner, Abreu Advogados
12.10
Questions
12.20
Lunch
Session Five: Yachting (VAT & customs)
13.30
Panel:
*Update on VAT & Customs changes within the EU & UK
*VAT on repairs: FCE/ICE vs IPR
* VAT on charters
Moderated by: Ilona Motyka, Head of Yachting Division, Easytax
Panellists to include:
Carla Bellieni, Partner, Studio Piana Illuzzi Queirolo Trabattoni
Filippo Cerboni, SOS Yachting
Jennifer Timinis, Director, SEA GREECE
Joe Francis, Director, PFK Francis
Session Six: Aviation (Customs)
14.20
Panel: How TA applies in corporate aviation
Moderated by: Nic Arnold, Head of JTC Private Office
Panellists Include:
Andrew Wilson, Director – Head of Aviation and Marine, Zedra
Greta Kemper, Tax Director, Martyn Fiddler
Session Seven: Aviation & Yachting (VAT & Customs)
15.10
Panel: The US perspective (ONLINE)
Michael T. Moore, Moore & Company
Umberto Bonavita, Robert Allan Law Firm
Robb Maass, AMRL
16.00
Refreshments
Session Eight: Roundtables
16.30
Roundtable discussions enable delegates to debate specialist topics of interest. Delegates choose which roundtable they join and each discussion is moderated by a speaker or industry leader.
Roundtable topics include:
* Special customs procedures most used in yachting and aviation:
Temporary Admission, Inward Processing, and Customs Warehousing.
Nic Arnold, Head of JTC Private Office
*Chartering in the UK: how does it work? How does it differ from the EU?
Rachel Purnell, Senior Manager – VAT, Equiom
*Chartering in Greece: how does it work? How does it differ from the rest of
the EU?
Jennifer Timinis, Director, SEA GREECE
Manina Kouna from Amaltheia Consulting
17.25
Chair's closing remarks
Alex Chumillas, Tax Marine & Aviation Spain
Jean-Philippe Maslin, Richemont Delviso
17.30
End of Conference and Closing Drinks
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Alex Chumillas
Tax Marine & Aviation Spain
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Alex Chumillas
Tax Marine & Aviation Spain
Alex advises both on tax and customs matters on yacht and aircraft purchases, owning and operational structures. He has worked for top-tier foreign broker companies, yacht management, legal firms, aircraft operators and foreign investors, most of which remain regular clients.
Alex is member of the board of directors of the Spanish Business Aviation Association and co-chair of the European Business Aviation Association tax committee. He is founding member of the Barcelona Nautical Cluster and its tax committee, where has been working for the improvement of the Spanish tax landscape on the amendment of the existing tax regulations.
He is actively works in collaborative projects and is the founder of “The Superyacht and Aviation Think Tank” a group discussion with more of 140 VAT and customs specialists of across Europe. He regularly speaks at superyacht and business aviation industry conferences worldwide.
Ayuk Ntuiabane
Managing Partner, Yacht & Aviation VAT
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Ayuk Ntuiabane
Managing Partner, Yacht & Aviation VAT
Joana Maldonado Reis
Advogada | Professional Partner, Abreu Advogados
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Joana Maldonado Reis
Advogada | Professional Partner, Abreu Advogados
Yamandu Rodriguez Caorsi
Lawyer, Nauta Legal Abogados
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Yamandu Rodriguez Caorsi
Lawyer, Nauta Legal Abogados
Berardo Lanci
VALUABLE ASSETS MANAGEMENT | VAM Tax & Corporate Firm
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Berardo Lanci
VALUABLE ASSETS MANAGEMENT | VAM Tax & Corporate Firm
Mr. Berardo Lanci is a Partner in the Law Firm Valuable Assets Management – VAM Tax & Corporate Firm, in which he is also head of the Yachting & Aviation Department. Mr. Lanci’s areas of specialization include twenty years’ experience in the field of yachting taxation and he assists his clients both by providing advisory services and by representing and defending them before the tax administration and tax courts. His clients are mostly yacht owners, construction and refitting shipyards, brokers and dealers, nautical leasing companies and other operators in the yachting world.
Carla Bellieni
Partner, Studio Piana Illuzzi Queirolo Trabattoni
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Carla Bellieni
Partner, Studio Piana Illuzzi Queirolo Trabattoni
Ilona Motyka
Head of Yachting Division, Easytax
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Ilona Motyka
Head of Yachting Division, Easytax
Nic Arnold
Head of JTC Private Office
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Nic Arnold
Head of JTC Private Office
Nic joined JTC in 2021 as UK Head of JTC Private Office. She has responsibility for the strategic development and performance of the UK’s holistic Private Office services, along with working closely with JTC’s premium clients.
Nic has extensive experience in bringing broad and bespoke fiscal governance to high net worth individuals and families spanning the globe.
Her role at JTC Private Office is to ensure that the highest levels of professional governance are applied to families’ lives, whether that be supporting family members themselves or their own family offices. Nic’s work will range from advising on the transfer of wealth through the generations to buying a superyacht or overseeing the implementation of financial software.
Nic has particular expertise in family governance and in managing a family’s private luxury assets. As a chartered tax adviser, she also understands the increasingly complex demands of global taxation.
Before joining JTC, Nic was a tax director in PwC’s Private Client team and head of PwC’s Luxury Asset Advisory practice.
Andrew Wilson
Director – Head of Aviation and Marine, Zedra
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Andrew Wilson
Director – Head of Aviation and Marine, Zedra
Michael T Moore
CEO, Moore & Co
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Michael T Moore
CEO, Moore & Co
Michael T. Moore – Founder & Chairman of Moore & Co., P.A. | Chairman Emeritus of the International SeaKeepers Society and International Superyacht Society. AVVO Top Rated Lawyer and among America’s Most Honored Professionals (Top 1%). Inducted into the Florida Daily Business Review Hall of Fame for achieving multiple multimillion-dollar verdicts.
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Near Camp Nou – home of Barcelona FC – and close to L’Illa Diagonal shopping center.
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