Maritime and international trade
We offer a breadth of services to clients in the shipping, offshore and commodity sectors. Our clients include many of the world’s largest shipowners, shipyards, major ship finance banks, marine insurers and IG P&I clubs, energy services companies, oil and gas business and commodities traders.
We advise on all issues on the carriage of commodities including the drafting of charterparties and contracts of affreightment for both tanker and dry commodity cargoes, joint ventures, ship management agreements and shipping structures for traders and provide regular and continued advice on the shipment, carriage, discharge and delivery of all commodity cargoes. We regularly advise on, draft, review and negotiate building and conversion contracts for LNG, vessels, FPSOs, rigs and ships and operating and sale / purchase thereof.
We act in the most complex and high profile shipping disputes relevant to commodity traders, their financiers, and insurers. We work on disputes in the vast majority of maritime jurisdictions. This includes disputes over bills of lading, charterparty and contract of affreightment performance, cargo loss and damage, conversion and wrongful delivery, fires and explosions, general average, unsafe ports and berths.
