Shipping: Finance

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The lawyers of the Shipping, Aviation and Transportation Department at Legance have gained highly specialised expertise through qualified professional experiences of the highest level. They constantly adopt an integrated, cross-disciplinary approach while assisting leading domestic and international shipping companies, airlines, port terminals, airport operators, shipyards, insurance companies, banks and financial institutions, operators in the local public transportation sector, as well as in relation to all issues and matters connected with their practice area.

The Department sets up ad hoc teams on a case-by-case basis, based on the specific needs of the client and the relevant transaction, after carefully evaluating the specific skillsets and expertise of its professionals, and often involves lawyers from other departments of the Firm, who are specifically experienced in similar transactions on the domestic, European and international market.

The legal advice and assistance that the Shipping, Aviation and Transportation Department offers includes both typical sector activities, of a judicial and extrajudicial nature (e.g. assisting in relation to contracts for the use of means of transport, sale and purchase and leasing of ships, aircraft and other means of transport, maritime and aviation labour law, construction of ships and aircraft, etc.), and extraordinary transactions, such as mergers, acquisitions and other M&A transactions, restructuring and insolvency proceedings.