Shipping

About

Provided by Harper Macleod LLP

Our respected team has extensive experience across the full breadth of the shipping industry and provides a specialist, full service offering across the sector including vessel specific (from sale and purchase, ship building, to registration and chartering), banking, corporate, real estate, energy (including offshore renewable energy), dispute resolution, employment, construction, restructuring & insolvency, projects, procurement, state-aid, personal injury and private client matters. 

We have a unique geographical spread of offices which gives us in-depth local market knowledge in relation to the key issues and commercial drivers in the shipping sector (in particular in Shetland and the Highlands). We are a key Scots law partner (and referrer of work) to numerous UK and international firms and have vast experience in acting, and leading, on complex multijurisdictional matters in the sector.

The firm boasts an enviable list of Scottish and international clients (from individuals, SMEs, large corporates, financial institutions and insurers to local authority bodies, trade associations, membership bodies, fish producer organisations, shipping agents, and port and harbour authorities).