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Our global marine insurance team supports clients across Europe, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, the Americas and Bermuda, acting for Lloyd’s syndicates as well as leading marine insurers and reinsurers.
Many of the world’s largest insurance and reinsurance companies turn to us when facing complex, high-value, and sensitive disputes. With decades of experience in marine claims, we offer pragmatic and commercial advice, always focused on helping you achieve the best outcome; whether through clear policy drafting, effective claims strategies, or preserving valuable commercial relationships.
Our marine expertise
- Marine insurance coverage - Advice on policy drafting, interpretation and disputes across all classes of marine insurance.
- Cargo and goods in transit - Claims and coverage across the supply chain, including project cargo and delay in start-up (DSU).
- Hull and machinery - Disputes and policies covering increased value, mortgagee’s interest, loss of hire, and builder’s risks.
- Fine art & specie - Protection of high-value goods such as fine art, jewellery and bullion.
- Marine & excess liabilities - Including charterers’ liability, freight services, marine trades, ports and terminals, ship repairers’ liability and stevedores’ liability.
- Marine personal injury - Defence and liability claims for crew, passengers and third parties.
- War & terrorism risks - Claims arising from piracy, seizure, confiscation, blocking and trapping, and malicious damage.
- Yachts & pleasure craft - Insurance and dispute resolution for owners, insurers and brokers.
- Trade credit & political risk - Advising on cover and disputes linked to political instability, sanctions and non-payment.
- Marine casualty - Collisions, groundings, salvage, and general average claims.
- Third-party claims - Property damage, financial loss and personal injury under bills of lading, charter parties and other carriage contracts (sea, road, rail and air).
- Subrogated recoveries - Global recovery actions for insurers and reinsurers.
- Jurisdiction & enforcement - Advice on jurisdictional disputes, applicable law, enforcement of judgments and arbitral awards.
- Shipbuilding & classification - Disputes with shipyards and Classification Societies.
