MARITIME & INSURANCE LAW
Our specialist Maritime and Insurance Law team provides advice to UK and international clients, including shipowners and charterers, P&I Clubs, commodity traders, international agencies, insurance brokers and underwriters, regulators and governments. Our lawyers are acknowledged experts in their fields and have extensive experience of how markets operate in terms of transactional work and dispute resolution, and across dry shipping, admiralty and other maritime and trading ventures.
We advise on:
- Dry shipping including:
- charterparties
- bills of lading
- letters of credit
- bank guarantees and undertakings
- other shipping and banking documents
- Admiralty including:
- collisions
- salvage
- general average
- towage
- wreck removal
- pilotage
- limitation
- Sale and purchase of ships and other vessels including:
- buying
- selling
- scrapping
- Ship and offshore construction
- Marine and non-marine insurance and reinsurance
- Trade and international sale of goods
- Public international law aspects of shipping including:
- territorial disputes
- embargoes and maritime blockades
- marine pollution and environmental disasters
- international safety regulations; and piracy
- hijacking and other international crimes on the high seas
- Dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration and mediation
- Drafting contractual documents for shipping and trading ventures
- Working with loss assessors and loss adjusters on coverage disputes
