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SHIPPING TRANSPORT & INTERNATIONAL TRADE
TAC Law Firm acts for clients globally on every aspect of shipping and international trade. Our international clients include ship owners and operators, their agents and managers, banks, traders and suppliers, cargo interests and the insurance sector, whether defence, P&I, H&M, war risk, cargo or other market insurance.With our partners’ and consultants’ education and experience, TAC Law Firm provides service mainly in the following areas of Shipping Transport & International Trade.
We act in disputes through the English Courts and up to European level, whether as the forum of choice, in support of foreign proceedings or ancillary to arbitration. We regularly handle cases or advise in foreign arbitrations where English law is the law of the contract, as is often specified in shipping and trade contracts.
We act in all forms of arbitration for clients, whether LMAA, ICC, LCIA, CIETAC, AAA or LOF salvage, whether the seat is in London or elsewhere, and we have expertise in all forms of ADR including mediation. Liasing as required with an extensive international network of lawyers, with whom we have strong links, we aim to achieve the best result for our clients, resolving and finalising disputes, seeking security and/or enforcing awards or judgments.
• Demurrage and freight disputes
• Cancellation and termination claims
• Off hire
• Piracy
• International sanctions
• Pollution
• GA and salvage
• Hold cleaning and contamination claims
• Speed and performance disputes
• Hull fouling and damage claims
• Insolvency and restructuring
• Ship sale and delivery disputes
• Enforcement and arrest, both in the UK and internationally
• Freezing injunctions and jurisdictional disputes
• GAFTA and FOSFA disputes
• Cargo claims
• Salvage and General Average
• Collisions
• Unsafe ports
• BIMCO ‘Wreck’ contracts
• Lloyd’s Open Form salvage contracts
Our clients are commercial enterprises. The years of experience that we have had ensure that we can both advise on and assist in resolving our clients’ commercial problems in a manner that suits their businesses.
Our clients know that whatever service they need, shipping and international trade is a 24 hour a day business and we are available to them at all times.
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