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  • Shipping disputes and contracts

    Day to day shipping involves understanding the allocation of risk between the various stakeholders. Often disputes arise when that risk allocation is misunderstood and we have a wide range of real-world experience to make sure that you understand the legal consequences of short term decision making. Our aim is to help to resolve disputes without damaging important commercial relationships.
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  • Admiralty law and casualties

    We have handled many high profile casualties including groundings in sensitive waters, fires, collisions as well as hijackings and kidnappings. We fully understand the issues that arise such as pollution, GA and transhipment of cargo. We provide a casualty response expertise: assisting in forum selection, ship arrest, limitation of liability, evidence collection and analysis and contract selection from LOF through to bunker removals and wreck removal.
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  • Piracy and security

    The world does not get any safer and it is difficult not to transit across waters where coastal states are subject to internal conflict and where your vessels are not potentially exposed to collateral damage from attacks by warring factions or criminal gangs.

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  • Marine insurance

    Whatever your role in a maritime venture you will want to make sure that your commercial risk is insured. We provide contentious and advisory services to all stakeholders.

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  • Offshore

    Whether you are an oil, drilling, or service company or an insurer we are experienced in reviewing contracts and in dispute resolution.

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  • International trade

    When goods are delayed or their condition differs from what is expected, parties to sale contracts need on the spot advice as to what can and can’t be done against the counterparty and possibly against a transport provider, and as to what practical and legal steps to take to minimise exposure and to secure the best possible recovery.

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  • Aviation

    We fly high! Aviation lawyers with an intimate understanding of the industry, and an approach that prioritises speed, straight talking and flexibility. Providing solutions that work for you.

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  1. Shipping disputes and contracts
  2. Admiralty law and casualties
  3. Piracy and security
  4. Marine insurance
  5. Offshore
  6. International trade
  7. Aviation
Shipping disputes and contracts

Shipping disputes and contracts

Day to day shipping involves understanding the allocation of risk between the various stakeholders. Often disputes arise when that risk allocation is misunderstood and we have a wide range of real-world experience to make sure that you understand the legal consequences of short term decision making. Our aim is to help to resolve disputes without damaging important commercial relationships.
Learn more
Admiralty law and casualties

Admiralty law and casualties

We have handled many high profile casualties including groundings in sensitive waters, fires, collisions as well as hijackings and kidnappings. We fully understand the issues that arise such as pollution, GA and transhipment of cargo. We provide a casualty response expertise: assisting in forum selection, ship arrest, limitation of liability, evidence collection and analysis and contract selection from LOF through to bunker removals and wreck removal.
Learn more
Piracy and security

Piracy and security

The world does not get any safer and it is difficult not to transit across waters where coastal states are subject to internal conflict and where your vessels are not potentially exposed to collateral damage from attacks by warring factions or criminal gangs.

Learn more
Marine insurance

Marine insurance

Whatever your role in a maritime venture you will want to make sure that your commercial risk is insured. We provide contentious and advisory services to all stakeholders.

Learn more
Offshore

Offshore

Whether you are an oil, drilling, or service company or an insurer we are experienced in reviewing contracts and in dispute resolution.

Learn more
International trade

International trade

When goods are delayed or their condition differs from what is expected, parties to sale contracts need on the spot advice as to what can and can’t be done against the counterparty and possibly against a transport provider, and as to what practical and legal steps to take to minimise exposure and to secure the best possible recovery.

Learn more
Aviation

Aviation

We fly high! Aviation lawyers with an intimate understanding of the industry, and an approach that prioritises speed, straight talking and flexibility. Providing solutions that work for you.

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Latest knowledge

NEWS & KNOWLEDGE

When is a head on situation not a head on situation?

In the first Admiralty case of 2023 the Court handed down its judgment in FMG HONG KONG SHIPPING LIMITED, THE DEMISE CHARTERERS OF FMG SYDNEY (“SYDNEY”) and THE OWNERS OF THE MSC APOLLO (“APOLLO”) This is a collision matter and the incident has the usual features common in most collisions that of bad decisions and […]

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February 2023 – Ionna Vitta and Paul Haworth join Tatham & Co as senior hires.   »

Ionna Vitta has joined us (from Penningtons) as a partner and is based in Athens, servicing the firm’s Greek clientele. Paul Haworth is a British Master Mariner with 16 years’ seagoing experience and a solicitor, qualified in 2009,  specialising in Admiralty and crisis response.

ITS 2022 – Istanbul   »

Simon Tatham gave a paper at this well attended conference at the end of September on “The salvage of alternatively fuelled vessels” and also accepted the invitation to give  the wrap-up speech on the conference’s final day in Istanbul. He comments: “It was good for the towage and salvage industry to gather once again after […]

Do not delay salvage contracting   »

by Simon Tatham Regular columnist Simon Tatham examines a recent maritime accident report to highlight the risks of not taking the offered LOF The International Group of P&I Clubs (IG) has been working on what it calls its Salvage Delay Project, an independent study into the increasing tendency for delays in the take up of emergency […]

NEWS & KNOWLEDGE

Simon Tatham presented this month for BIMCO at their Offshore, Project and Heavylift Masterclass, providing a talk on deep sea towage contracts.

Simon Tatham presented this month for BIMCO at their Offshore, Project and Heavylift Masterclass, providing a talk on deep sea towage contracts.

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Simon Tatham presents BIMCO’s Masterclass on Towage & Salvage in Rotterdam, 28-29 April 2022   »

Simon Tatham is to present BIMCO’s Masterclass on Towage & Salvage in Rotterdam on 28-29 April 2022. The masterclass presented by Simon Tatham will focus on a wide range of ocean towage and salvage agreements provided by BIMCO.

Featured case studies

We have particularly good experience in dealing with vessels caught up in complex environments made difficult or dangerous by war, geo-political issues or simply a capricious judicial system.

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There is anecdotal evidence that the gangs operating off West Africa (and it remains the case that most kidnappings are carried out by Nigerian gangs) have become more sophisticated. It is believed that attacks are carried out by one gang and the victims then “sold” to another who carry out the negotiations.

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