About

Provided by Shook Lin & Bok LLP

Our Shipping & Commodities Practice advises on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Its team of experienced dispute resolution lawyers advises and acts for a global clientele in a wide range of shipping and commodities-related disputes including those involving ship management, shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, charterparties, bills of lading, cargo misdelivery and cargo loss/damage, as well as demurrage or despatch and cargo quality claims.

Our team has experience in arbitrations conducted under various institutions such as the SIAC, SCMA, ICC, LMAA and LCIA, as well as those conducted in accordance with the rules of trade associations such as GAFTA and FOSFA.

Aside from litigation and arbitration, the team is also actively involved in restructuring and insolvency matters, advising banks and non-bank creditors, companies, regulators and insolvency practitioners, judicial managers and liquidators.

On the non-contentious side, the team’s highly regarded transactional lawyers advise on various transactional matters including ship sale and purchase, ship financing, secured and unsecured loans, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions.