1) Ship Sale, Purchase & Finance

Our dedicated team focuses on ship, yacht and marine project finance.

Our ship finance team has a dedicated focus that gives them a unique position for understanding and advising on the issues faced across the industry. We deliver first class, commercially efficient solutions for our clients through a full complete service approach across a broad range of ship finance work. We can manage the entire transaction for each client, advising on asset finance and wider corporate and commercial matters.

We are able to assist our clients over the entire ship sale and purchase process, from early negotiations through to delivery. We act for a variety of clients, on all types of vessels and are able to advise on all standard industry forms.

Our dedicated ship finance lawyers cover all types of asset finance including secured lending, leasing, export credit financing and asset value support.

2) Shipbuilding & Offshore Construction

Advising on every aspect of shipbuilding, offshore construction & refitting.

Our shipbuilding & offshore team has extensive experience in providing legal advice to buyers and shipyards on large scale projects including negotiating, drafting, amending, renegotiating, and restructuring contracts.

We can assist in both advisory and contentious matters, whether dealing with new build, conversion, shipbreaking or ship recycling. In contentious matters, we can advise on all aspects of a dispute on the basis of our lawyers’ experience and understanding of the technical issues that may arise.

3) Complete logistics and Transportation

Our logistics team provide the full complement of services relating to the domestic and international movement of goods. We are a market-leading transportation and shipping practice acting for global logistics companies, traders and end users in every aspect of their supply chain management.

As one of only a handful of firms with experience of transport and logistics matters across all our practice areas, we advise on all issues relating to the domestic and international movement of goods. Given the ever-growing need to support end-to-end logistics, we are particularly experienced in managing large complex, multi-jurisdictional, multi-modal transport matters.

Our reputation in both road and rail has flourished in recent years, as we handle a complete range of work to support our clients in both these sectors. We have also worked on a number of significant infrastructure projects that combine several transportation elements to ensure the raw materials meet their trading hub.