Fichte & Co has a highly skilled shipping department that extends across the full range of maritime law, marine insurance, litigation and arbitration.



  • Corporate Structures & Joint Ventures
  • Loan Agreements
  • Finance Lease Agreements
  • Private Equity
  • Structured and Syndicated Financing
  • Refinancing, Restructuring & Insolvency
  • Islamic Finance
  • S&P Agreements
  • S&P Disputes
  • Escrow Arrangements
  • Shipbuilding Contracts
  • Ship & Mortgage Registration
  • Conversion & Repair of Ships and Offshore Installations
  • Yacht Building Contracts
  • S&P Agreements
  • Yacht Finance
  • Regulatory & Compliance
  • Insurance
  • Crew Employment
  • Accidents & Claims
  • Revolving secured and unsecured credit facilities and syndicated transactions
  • Trade credit insurance policies
  • Swaps, hedges and derivatives
  • Borrowing base facilities
  • Reserve based facilities
  • Warehouse stock and inventory financing
  • Export credit agency (ECA) financing
  • Discounting, forfaiting and debt
  • Supply chain financing
  • Letters of Credit, UCP 600 and guarantees
  • Sharia compliant finance
  • Investment
  • Development
  • Operation
  • Port Rules and Regulations
  • Finance
  • Lease Agreements
  • Concession & Sub-concession Agreements
  • Usufruct Agreements
  • Asset Transfer Agreements
  • Cargo & Port Claims
  • Collisions/allisions
  • Casualty
  • Salvage/LOF matters
  • Grounding
  • Partial/general average
  • Marine pollution
  • FD&D, H&M and P&I insurance
  • Cargo insurance
  • Credit & political risks
  • Energy offshore & onshore
  • Coverage advice & defense
  • Subrogated recoveries
  • Speed & consumption claims
  • Apportionment of cargo claims between owner & charterer
  • Cargo quantity disputes
  • Non performance claims
  • Bunker disputes / claims
  • Laytime & demurrage disputes
  • Off hire claims
  • Agency disputes
  • Unlawful deviation
  • Notice of readiness disputes
  • Frustration of contract
  • Apportionment of costs and expenses
  • Cargo-worthiness
  • Payment of freight or hire
  • Lien on cargo, bunker or vessel
  • Delivery and redelivery of the ship
  • Handling damages
  • Seawater and rain-water wetting
  • Loss over board
  • Non-delivery, wrong delivery, shortage of cargo
  • Commingling or contamination of cargoes
  • Theft and robbery
  • Insufficient care in transit (cooling, ventilation, etc)
  • Fire damage
  • General Average contributions
  • Ship arrests
  • Cargo claims
  • Charterparty disputes
  • Ship management
  • Employment matters
  • Ship chartering disputes
  • Ships Bunkering claims
  • Ship arrest and enforcement
  • Ships Mortgage litigation and enforcement
  • Affreightment contracts disputes
  • Shipbuilding contracts disputes

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