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Transportation: Shipping - France

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What the Team is Known For

HFW has a standout shipping practice covering both dry and wet matters. The team has extensive experience handling contentious matters, ranging from contaminated cargo disputes to collisions and the grounding of vessels. It is additionally active on a variety of shipping finance mandates, often representing banks or other investors. The law firm also maintains a strong aviation team that works with a variety of insurers and national airlines on transactions, litigation and compliance.

Work Highlights

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  • HFW represented Norse Atlantic Airways in litigation before the French courts regarding the alleged transfer of its assets from Norwegian.

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Notable Practitioners

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Guillaume Brajeux
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Guillaume Brajeux
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Guillaume Brajeux is a leading figure in the shipping market and handles a broad range of mandates, including collisions, pollution cases and shipbuilding disputes. He is highly sought after by insurers, ship owners and construction companies.

Guillaume is just excellent, a clever and very dedicated lawyer. You cannot fault him.

Pierre Frühling
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Pierre Frühling
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Advancing in the rankings this year is Pierre Frühling. He assists insurers and airlines with regulatory, litigious and transactional matters.

He is an excellent professional.

Pierre produces very good quality work. He is responsive and nice to deal with.

Stanislas Lequette
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Stanislas Lequette
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Stanislas Lequette is experienced in a range of shipping disputes. He assists clients with cargo claims, wreck removals and arbitration. He offers additional expertise in piracy matters.

Jean-Baptiste Charles
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Jean-Baptiste Charles
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Jean-Baptiste Charles earns a higher spot in the rankings this year. He demonstrates particular skills in litigious aviation matters, with work spanning crashes, damages claims and product liability issues.

He is a really good lawyer.

Jean-Baptiste is brilliant, absolutely amazing. He is very dedicated and has very deep knowledge.

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Jean-Marc Zampa
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Jean-Marc Zampa routinely assists French banks with shipping finance mandates. He is particularly recognised for his expertise in French tax lease structures.

Stéphanie Schweitzer
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Stéphanie Schweitzer
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Stéphanie Schweitzer operates across both contentious and non-contentious shipping mandates for ship owners and investment funds.

Stéphanie is an excellent transportation lawyer.

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Vincent Bénézech
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Vincent Bénézech is qualified in France and England and assists clients with cargo damage disputes, with particular expertise in soft commodities cases.

He is a good lawyer and a nice person.

Vincent is an excellent lawyer in transport and commodities law.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Transportation: Aviation

Pierre Frühling
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Pierre Frühling
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Jean-Baptiste Charles
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Jean-Baptiste Charles
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Band 2
Transportation: Shipping

Guillaume Brajeux
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Guillaume Brajeux
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Stanislas Lequette
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Stanislas Lequette
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Stéphanie Schweitzer
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Stéphanie Schweitzer
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Vincent Bénézech
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Band 3
Transportation: Shipping: Finance

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Jean-Marc Zampa
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