Maritime &Transport
Our Maritime & Transport practice focuses on asset protection, secured transactions and risk management in international trade and transportation. We advise clients in the maritime and aviation sectors with a clear understanding of the high-value, time-sensitive and cross-border nature of these operations.
We provide comprehensive counsel on vessel and aircraft acquisitions and disposals, registration and flag matters, financing structures and security arrangements. In financing-related transactions, we work closely with lenders, shipowners and aviation operators to structure mortgages, pledges and other security mechanisms in accordance with international standards and market practice.
In enforcement scenarios, we act swiftly and decisively in ship arrests and aircraft detentions to secure claims and preserve asset value. We strategically deploy provisional remedies and precautionary measures to safeguard our clients’ commercial interests. In cross-border matters, technical accuracy and coordinated execution are central to our approach.
Sanctions regimes and trade compliance considerations increasingly shape international maritime and aviation transactions. We advise on sanctions exposure, embargo regimes and secondary sanctions risk, and we assist in implementing contractual safeguards and compliance frameworks. Our objective is to ensure that commercial operations proceed within a legally sound and defensible regulatory environment.
Where asset security, cross-border enforcement and regulatory compliance are critical, we provide technically rigorous and commercially aligned counsel.