International Trade, Transport & Maritime
Our International Trade, Transport & Maritime team offer clients a comprehensive understanding of the laws and regulations impacting international business and logistics. Advising owners, operators, financial institutions, insurers, vessel and airline operators, commodity traders and charterers on the full range of legal services, both contentious and non-contentious.
Our clients include regional and international market players who require specialist legal advice and on-the-ground regulatory expertise. We provide technical advice commercially, ensuring that no matter the challenge, a successful outcome is achieved.
Shipping litigation is a speciality field in which we excel. We regularly represent transportation companies, port terminals and authorities, and warehouses on a range of different litigation matters arising from M&A, employment, insurance, building and financing transactions, including non-maritime litigation arising from these transactions. Whatever your needs, we’ll meet them.
Services
- Dispute resolution: arbitration & litigation
- Distribution and importation arrangements
- M&A
- Joint ventures
- Asset and trade financing & acquisition
- Regulatory & compliance
- Trade law
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Sanctions
- Leasing agreements
- Financing options
- Risk advisory & crisis management
Key Contacts
Antonios Dimitracopoulos
Partner
Rima Mrad
Partner
Jonathan Brown
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