Practice Areas

Our core business practice areas are:

Aviation, Business & Corporate, Commercial Arbitration, Mergers & Acquisition, Maritime, Privitisation,
Probate, Property & Construction, Residency, Nationality & Redomiciliation, Trusts.

As a rule we are instructed to assist with atypical or unique circumstances. These invariably involve cross border challenges or elements. A client may require advice and legal action on a single transaction playing out in several countries contemporaneously.

Our strength lies in our track record. Since three decades we act as the sole point of contact for clients who have business objectives that require constant and dedicated attention in various and, at times, off the beaten track, jurisdictions which are likely to be unfamiliar with the client.

The principal services we undertake often in several jurisdictions on a regular basis are set out below.

Corporate

We design, establish, administer, dissolve, re-domicile, restructure, buy and sell corporate structures for clients across the EU, the Middle-East, Asia, and in the major cities on the eastern seaboard of the United States.

Services range from procuring off the shelf companies to advising and structuring foreign investment venture vehicles including within uncommon jurisdictions, to tailoring complex statutes for multi shareholder corporations, partnership agreements as well as drafting a whole raft of business agreements.

Crisis Management & Government Investigations

Together with leading Washington DC law firms, we assist foreign US government contractors to prevent and manage challenges which arise regularly throughout the lifetime of global multiple hundred million dollar contracts. Similar cases have been handled within the EU theatre including NATO contracting authorities.

Trusts

In a period spanning a quarter century, we have advised on the establishment of a significantly material number of trusts as asset planning vehicles or tax efficient structures including the selection of appropriate jurisdictions worldwide for trusts and trustees.

Maritime

We cover all legal aspects concerning vessel or yacht ownership and management including mortgage registration, financing structures and drafting the entire range of industry related commercial agreements.

In Europe and the Middle-East we have acted on the seller as well as on the buyer side and have been involved in some of the most complex international maritime acquisitions including litigation.

International Arbitration

Only international commercial dispute resolution is handled.

Advisory services range from tailoring arbitration clauses, selecting governing laws, dispute resolution centres, arbitrators, composing litigation legal teams and managing entire litigation processes including where multiple jurisdictions are involved.