Shipping & Maritime Transactions

The shipping sector faces ever-increasing complexity, scrutiny and challenges, from decarbonisation and digitalisation to geopolitics and sanctions. In this environment, we can help you manage risk, execute transactions and deliver projects with confidence and efficiency.

Our specialist shipping and maritime transactional lawyers support clients across a range of non-contentious and transactional issues, from shipbuilding and fleet renewal programmes to investment and finance, sale and purchase, mergers and acquisitions, and operation and management. We also provide strategic guidance on offtake arrangements and employment matters, as well as joint ventures, portfolio transfers, ownership structures, restructurings and workouts, refit and repair, and ship recycling.

The team brings together experts in all areas of commercial shipping. We can guide clients through the most complex, cross border and high-profile maritime challenges, delivering this within a fully integrated offering that benefits from the strength of our wider corporate, disputes, regulatory, sanctions and insurance specialists.

We support banks, export credit agencies (ECAs), leasing companies, investors, owners and operators, charterers, brokers, and governments and regulators. The team has specialist experience across all types of maritime asset, including tankers, bulkers and container vessels, alongside gas carriers, offshore and energy transition vessels, RoRo and RoPax ferries, cruise ships and large yachts.

With the world’s largest dedicated shipping law team, comprising of over 220 maritime lawyers and a substantial group of Master Mariners, we work across many of the world’s commercial shipping hubs, including Dubai, Geneva, Hong Kong, London, Paris, Piraeus, Shanghai, Sao Paulo and Singapore. The transactional team offers a truly global perspective, regularly advising on transactions involving multiple jurisdictions and competing regulatory frameworks.