Transportation: Shipping/Maritime: Finance

Holland & Knight's Maritime Finance Team is recognized worldwide for its ship and offshore energy financing, corporate, tax, litigation, bankruptcy and regulatory skills and our ability to handle the largest, most difficult maritime matters. Our team provides sophisticated legal counsel in business-critical maritime, offshore and cruise industry transactions.

Our Maritime Finance Team has extensive experience in a wide scope of transactional work relating to shipping and the maritime industry worldwide, including:

• shipping industry taxation issues
• capital markets transactions
• maritime bankruptcies, foreclosures and work-outs
• maritime commercial disputes, charter parties and insurance
• oil pollution and other maritime environmental issues, including ship recycling
• Jones Act, Federal Maritime Commission (FMC), U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD), U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)
• maritime and trade regulations

Additionally, the team has special expertise in the U.S. Jones Act and deep experience in Marshall Islands, Liberia and Vanuatu matters.

Complementing this industry knowledge, our team also includes corporate lawyers who regularly execute various types of maritime industry business transactions. This comprehensive and in-depth experience ensures an informed and precise response to any maritime matter across the globe.