Achieving Excellent Outcomes for our Clients
We settle around 95% of our cases before they go to a hearing, an award or a judgement, securing excellent outcomes for our clients using our immense experience and expertise.
But we also have a very successful track record in court proceedings and arbitrations in the remaining cases.
Our Shipping team handles:
- Dispute resolution (arbitration, English and Greek court proceedings, and alternative dispute resolution) for all types of shipping contracts including:
- Time charterparties
- Voyage charterparties
- Contracts of affreightment (COAs)
- Bareboat charterparties
- Ship sale contracts (MOAs)
- Shipbuilding contracts
- Bills of lading
- Ship casualties:
- Groundings
- Collisions
- Allisions
- Main engine breakdowns
- Subsequent general average disputes
- Drafting and negotiating shipping contracts, in particular:
- Shipbuilding contracts
- MOAs
- Charterparties/COAs or individual clauses of theirs and addendums to them
- Letters of indemnity
- Letters of Undertaking
- Bills of lading
- Associated documents
We have experience & expertise in:
- LMAA arbitration
- LCIA arbitration
- ICC arbitration
- English and Greek Court proceedings
Representing:
We act for shipowners and ship operators, P&I Clubs, hull & machinery underwriters, shipyards and cargo traders.