Shipping & Oil Services
Our Shipping and Oil Services partner has been described as ‘technically versed’, ‘practically knowledgeable’, ‘responsive’ and ‘an industry encyclopedia who makes himself available despite his schedule’. Indeed, these are standards our entire shipping and oil services team adhere to.
Bringing our combined experience spanning about forty years of practice in this field across leading domestic and international law firms, as well as shipping and offshore companies, to the table, we have serviced a full range of clients on different legal and transactional matters across these fields.
Our clients are owners, charterers, shipyards, Insurers, protection and indemnity (P&I) clubs, financiers, international agencies, brokers, offshore and marine companies, port and terminal operators/promoters, petroleum marketing and distribution companies, commodity trading houses and trade associations. Whether you’re a well-established player, a smaller player or a new entrant to the field, we are well equipped to adequately cater to your legal and business needs as a participant in the shipping and oil services industries.
Our services cut across the negotiation and drafting of documentation related to charter parties, bills of lading, corporate structures for ship ownership and joint ventures, drilling and service contracts, management agreements, flag and operational registrations, employment, port & logistics, ship finance and lease, ship sale and purchase, ship mortgage registrations, ship recycling, crude oil and commodities trading, trade finance, international sales, documentary credit, marine insurance, marine casualties, pollution, piracy, ship arrest and release, Nigerian Cabotage trade and the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act 2010.
