Shipping Commercial
Shipping Commercial
Our team includes people who have first hand industry experience, including Master Mariners and a former naval architect and surveyor. We use that experience to quickly hone in on central issues.
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Admiralty and Casualty
On our team, we have lawyers with industry experience as Master Mariners and in the fields of naval architecture, surveying and engineering. We also have partners who have worked in house at large shipowners. We use the experience and understanding to guide clients through all forms of causalities including, collisions, groundings, salvage, wreck removal and fires.
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Shipbuilding
The ‘go-to’ firm for shipbuilding in the new era representing Owners and some of the largest shipbuilders in the world. Our specialist shipbuilding team’s experience includes hands-on industry backgrounds in ship construction and new-build surveying. we are well placed to provide specialist, pragmatic and tailored advice for drafting new-build contracts, renegotiating and altering existing contracts, and decisively dealing with any disputes.
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Insurance
We are able to assist with all aspects of insurance and reinsurance. Our team of lawyers combines previous qualifications and experience from relevant industries allowing us to quickly get to the bottom of the issues both legal and factual. Our experience and qualifications includes having lawyers who are current and/or previous Master Mariners, naval architecture and offshore engineer, ship surveying, and experience acting inhouse for large shipowning company.
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Energy and Offshore
Technically complex offshore and engineering issues are areas in which we are particularly adept. We have technical knowledge and experience within our legal team in the fields of naval architecture and offshore engineering to help guide you through any issues, including disputes involving jack-ups, semi-submersible and FPSOs. Our team of Master Mariners are available to assist on the shipping side of disputes, whether that be in relation to specialised offshore support vessels or the largest oil tanks.
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Yachts and Superyachts
We have specialist marine lawyers who are dual qualified as Master Mariners and with backgrounds in naval architecture and Class surveying. As a result, we can assist yacht owners, managers, brokers, insurers and yards in all manner of issues relating to yachts and superyachts.
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International Trade and Commodities
When goods are delayed or their condition differs from what is expected, parties to sale contracts need on the spot advice as to what can and can’t be done against the counterparty and possibly against a transport provider, and as to what practical and legal steps to take to minimise exposure and to secure the best possible recovery.
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Featured case studies
Groundings and collisions within such close proximity to large banks often involves the unpredictable and often misunderstood hydrodynamic effect of vessel interaction with the banks and bottom of the Suez Canal.
We became involved whilst the vessel was listing heavily and taking on water. She had already signed LOF with SCOPIC incorporated and invoked, and she eventually capsized with half the vessel beneath and half the vessel above the waterline.
Tatham Macinnes undertook a challenging case whereby two major container vessels had suffered severe corrosion to various engineering machinery parts, including fuel pumps, plungers and purifier bowls. One of the vessels involved had experienced a blackout and a subsequent collision with a pier.