DSK Legal : True Value, True Values

Banking and Finance

Corporate &
Commercial

Employment

IT & Intellectual
Property

Infrastructure &
Project Finance

Litigation & Arbitration

Media & Entertainment

Real Estate

Shipping

Tax

Transaction Support

The Shipping team brings together the skills of experienced lawyers specialised in this area of practice. Our lawyers engage in 'dry', 'wet' and general shipping related legal work, both in contentious and non-contentious areas. Our lawyers seek to understand your business and to exceed your expectations, structuring transactions and dispute resolution strategies to your best advantage, assisting you in relation to acquisition or divestment of vessels, obtaining of necessary Government approvals, and seeking tax efficient structural solutions.

Members of the Shipping team represent and advise shipowners, charterers, cargo owners and insurers on legal issues in areas such as:

	Arrest and release of ships

	Marine insurance

	Indian shipping law

	Laytime and demurrage disputes

	Disputes arising out of charterparty/ bills of lading

	Cargo damage / claims arising out of mis-delivery / non-delivery of cargo Including claims arising out of damage/contamination of cargo

	Enforcement of maritime lien / maritime claim

The Shipping Group also advises clients on a range of related issues such as:

	Personal injury claims of seamen

	Customs duty/penalty arising out of importation of cargo including confiscation of ship due to carriage of smuggled goods

	Wharfage charges, demurrage charges for uncleared cargo and sale deficit in auction sale of the uncleared cargo by the port trust

	Employment issues

	Impact of Special Economic Zones upon vessels calling at Indian ports

	Representation on various disputes (arising out of bills of lading) before courts and tribunals including consumer courts

The Shipping team also advises clients on a range of maritime corporate and transactional matters, including:

	Ship registration and mortgage

	Documentation for ship sale and purchase

	Negotiating / drafting and reviewing commercial shipping documents including charterpartles and contracts of affreightment

	Documentation on ship financing transactions

	Container terminal issues and land operation contracts

DSK Legal has an enviable reputation for clear legal analysis and effective dispute resolution. Reinforcing this legal expertise is a firm-wide belief in the need to understand clients' industries and in particular, their business interests.

The Shipping team also works with international law / consulting firms to deliver seamless solutions to global challenges, through a single point of contact with the client.