Practice

Maritime Law

The AA  Maritime Team has partners and associates of maritime and trading litigation from competitor boutique firms and has expertise in maritime corporate, finance, and commodity trading advice and services including litigation (civil and criminal), arbitration, casualty, and pollution response, regulatory compliance, and corporate reorganization. The Team's clients center on the shipping and commodity trading industries and closely related fields including finance, insurance, and agency. The team's attorneys are involved on a daily basis in drafting, negotiating, offering advice, investigating, and litigating matters concerning:

• Contracts for the sale, purchase, insurance, construction, and repair of ships
• Contracts for the sale, purchase, and transportation of commodities
• Agreements for the financing of ships and other maritime-related property, including marine terminals and container equipment
• Contracts of carriage of all types, including contracts of affreightment, time charters, voyage charters, bills of lading, space sharing, and vessel pooling agreements
• Contracts for the purchase or leasing of equipment, including containers and chassis
• Ship management, agency, and freight forwarding contracts
• Stevedore and ocean marine terminal contracts
• Insurance, reinsurance, excess insurance, and insurance brokerage contracts
• Contracts for passenger vessel operations
• Private placements, bond financings, and other financial investment vehicles
• Regulatory/Inquiry/Casualty matters before the Federal Maritime Commission and Coast Guard

The Team's attorneys also investigate and handle the resolution of maritime casualties as they arise throughout the world, including vessel fires, groundings, sinkings, collisions, and equipment failures resulting in cargo and vessel loss and damage, pollution, loss of life, and bodily injury.
The AA Maritime Team recently assisted a ship-owning group with over $2 billion in financing for a series of ships being constructed in Europe and Asia.