We guide and support our clients throughout each phase of the business cycle, from pre-contractual advisory work, through contract implementation to formal court proceedings and arbitration, enforcement and settlement.
The size, skill and structure of our global team means we can assist with any problem, no matter the size. Our clients routinely turn to us for support where early advice and action can avoid a dispute from developing. At the same time, we are trusted with our clients’ highest-value and most complex, multi-party, multi-jurisdictional disputes, as a result of our market-leading reputation for positive outcomes.
We represent the largest and best-known names in sector, including owners, charterers, commodity traders, financial institutions, International Group P&I Clubs, marine insurers, oil and gas companies, port operators and shipyards, across a broad spectrum of matters.
Key areas of expertise include maritime corporate disputes, carriage of goods issues, from charterparty disputes to cargo claims, commodities disputes and structured trade finance problems. We advise on disputes across the life cycle of a vessel from shipbuilding, ship finance, including restructuring and enforcement, to ship sale and purchase. We also advise on casualties, including ship fires, engine breakdowns, explosions, dangerous cargo, container collapse, and groundings and unsafe port claims.
We discuss whether salvage terms were ever agreed between parties to refloat the EVER GIVEN, during a catastrophic grounding in the Suez Canal in March 2021, and how this affected the final salvage costs to the owners.
Mostafa Emad and James Lehmann discuss a significant judgment issued by the Dubai Court of Cassation about the recovery of legal costs in arbitration.
In this article, Mike Phillips and Archit Dhir discuss the recent Supreme Court decision on recovery of piracy ransom payments and its relevance to current issues in the Red Sea.
