Admiralty and Shipping
We provide comprehensive legal services to the shipping industry, advising shipowners, operators, financiers and other market participants on a wide range of maritime matters.
As one of Cyprus’s leading firms in shipping and admiralty law, we offer comprehensive legal counsel to banks, shipowners, managers, charterers, cargo owners, and their insurers. Our market leading practitioners, with extensive experience in the field, provide strategic advice and representation for our clients’ shipping and aviation operations. From navigating complex dispute resolutions to managing the intricate legalities of maritime and aviation matters, we are committed to delivering exceptional service and results.
Notably, our team specialises in advising clients on their vessel and aircraft acquisitions and ship registration, as well as the underling financing and corporate structures. Our expertise extends to ship management agreements and charterparties and generally other related agreements throughout the life cycle of such an investment. We also provide guidance on the choice of flag and registration, ensuring compliance with all relevant company law and tax matters for ships, yachts, and aircraft.
In addition to transactional services, our firm excels in admiralty claims and maritime dispute resolution, providing legal counsel in a wide array of disputes falling under the admiralty jurisdiction of the courts. Our practice covers personal injury claims, insurance disputes, and finance-related conflicts, such as enforcement of security documents and ship mortgages. Moreover, we assist with ship and aircraft arrests, debt restructuring, insolvency, and advise on Cyprus’s advantageous shipping taxation and VAT leasing schemes.
We invite you to download our Admiralty and Shipping brochure available here.
- acquisition of vessels
- acquisition of aircraft
- shipbuilding contracts
- claims for loss or damage to cargo
- freight and off-hire disputes
- general average
- collisions
- salvage claims
- pollution
- disputes under shipbuilding and repairing contracts
- disputes relating to the employment of officers and crew
- personal injury claims
- marine insurance claims
- shareholder disputes
- finance disputes and enforcement of security documents including ship mortgages
- ship and cargo arrest proceedings
- company registration
- ship registration including parallel registration
- yacht registration
- aircraft registration
- all related company law and tax matters
- company registration
- ship registration including parallel registration
- yacht registration
- aircraft registration
- all related company law and tax matters
- refinance
- debt restructuring
- insolvency matters
- shipping finance
- aircraft finance and leasing
- corporate finance
- security documents including ship mortgages
- refinance
- debt restructuring
- insolvency matters
- arrests of vessels
- aircraft arrests
- licensing of private ship security contractors
- advice on Cyprus’s EU-approved tonnage tax system
- advice on Cyprus’s attractive VAT-saving schemes for private boats and aircraft
- establishment and administration of the appropriate struct
Practice Area Brochure
Admiralty and Shipping
