Legal services in the maritime sector are routinely required for contentious and non-contentious work relating to a wide range of matters including charter parties, shipbuilding, finance, commodities, energy, insurance, cargo, collision, salvage, general average and pollution.
Our company advises clients on contractual arrangements for the construction, financing and registration of marine vessels, customs and licensing, as well as documentation relating to charter parties and bills of lading. Furthermore, the company has dealt with a range of transactions concerning port and shipping assets.
We offer support in such matters as:
- Bill of lading and charter party disputes;
- Collisions and groundings;
- Shipbuilding and ship repair, ship sale and purchase, as well as corporate acquisitions and shareholder agreements, ship mortgage registration;
- Passenger and crew claims, personal injury and industrial disease;
- Marine insurance and reinsurance policies and disputes (including P&I);
- Environmental damage, bunker spills and contamination, ship recycling issues;
- Advising owners, charterers and cargo interests on all aspects of piracy incidents, covering the legal and practical aspects of responding to a hijacking, release of vessels, insurance and mitigating the risk of such incidents reoccurring;
- Dealing with national and international authorities and representing clients’ interests in formal enquiries and investigations.