
Our Firm provides services in relation to maritime/admiralty law including the negotiation and documentation of contracts for carriage of goods by sea, sale & purchase of vessels, marine insurance, voyage and bareboat charter parties. We regularly liaise with the Nigerian Shipping Registry.
Members of the Firm have benefitted from training in all aspects of maritime law. They have acquired experience in resolution of claims relating to charter parties, cargo, collision, demurrage and damages for detention, sale and purchase of vessels, ownership of vessels, arrest and release of ships, and negotiation of settlement of claims.
We offer advisory to a broad spectrum of corporate clients from vessel owners to charterers, terminal operators to marine insurers, financial institutions to oil and gas companies on a host of legal issues related to ship financing and mortgages, cabotage financing, ship sale and purchase, time and bareboat charters, flag state registration, contracts of carriage, marine insurance, shipbuilding and conversion, construction of terminals and port-related infrastructure, offshore oil and gas assets, maritime arbitration and litigation, broad transactional work and general regulatory compliance.
The in-depth industry knowledge and specialist Maritime expertise of our team enables us to advise on various transactions relating to charter parties, bills of lading, corporate structures for ship ownership and joint ventures, management agreements, flag and operational registrations, employment, port & logistics, ship finance and lease, ship sale and purchase, ship mortgage registrations, ship recycling, crude oil and commodities trading, trade finance, international sales, documentary credit, marine insurance, marine casualties, pollution, piracy, ship arrest and release, Nigerian Cabotage trade and the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010.
Our expertise also covers the legal, regulatory and policy issues relating to the shipping industry.