Marine
Our extensive experience enables us to understand your challenges quickly and provide effective solutions and advice. With offices across the globe, we can offer you the comprehensive legal services you need.
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Our extensive marine capability includes hull and machinery, freight, cargo and project cargo/DSU, as well as builders' risk, charterers' and ship repairers’ liability and related war and strikes, terrorism and political risk cover.
Our marine team has extensive experience from bulk carriers to yachts, and across the full range of claim scenarios from towage loss to piracy, seizure, grounding and unseaworthiness to breach of survey warranty. We have particular experience in project cargo and related DSU claims, and in carriers’ and forwarders’ liability.
Where fraud is identified in marine claims, our lawyers will work together to combine their expertise to provide the best litigation strategy and deliver successful outcomes.
Featured experience
- Acting for insurers in defence of a major cargo policy claim arising from damage to various cargoes of fruit shipped from the Philippines to China. Evidential disputes as to cargo damage and alleged political rejection.
- Acting on behalf of NVOCC interests following loss of the vessel MOL Comfort.
- Advising marine insurers and reinsurers in relation to a constructive total loss under a hull and machinery policy arising from the grounding of a ship in French territorial waters in the Caribbean. Litigation corresponding to three jurisdictions successfully concluded.
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Our insurance experts have extensive experience in handling goods in transit issues across the UK and globally.
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What our clients say
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”A very good understanding of our business, and what the levers are to success in our markets.
Legal 500, UK 2021
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”Their legal criteria are exceptional, clear and to the point. They differ in going straight to the point, beyond filling their concepts with information that is not relevant when making decisions.
Legal 500, Latin America 2021
Marine key contacts
Anthony Menzies
Partner
Londres
Toby Vallance
Partner
Londres
José María Álvarez-Cienfuegos
Partner
Madrid
José María Álvarez-Cienfuegos
Partner
Madrid
+34 91 781 6300
jmcienfuegos@dacbeachcroft.com
Summer Montague
Partner
Singapur
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¿Por qué elegir DAC Beachcroft?
Somos un bufete comercial de amplia base que presta servicios a una gran variedad de sectores, con una sólida herencia en seguros,
salud e inmobiliario. Combinamos excelentes conocimientos jurídicos y experiencia de vanguardia para diseñar soluciones en
que se adapten a las necesidades de nuestros clientes, a menudo con un uso inteligente de la tecnología.
Seguros
DAC Beachcroft es reconocido como un asesor preeminente en el mercado de seguros, y ponemos un fuerte énfasis en las relaciones a largo plazo que construimos con usted para que realmente podamos agregar valor a su negocio.
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Sanidad y asistencia social
DAC Beachcroft está considerado líder del mercado en la prestación de asesoramiento jurídico corporativo, comercial y normativo a proveedores de servicios sanitarios.
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Inmobiliario
Con 170 abogados, somos uno de los mayores equipos jurídicos inmobiliarios del Reino Unido. Nuestra amplia red nos proporciona conocimientos y acceso a nivel nacional, regional y local.
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Servicios financieros
Asesoramos regularmente a diseñadores y fabricantes de productos, organismos comerciales y minoristas, distribuidores e inversores de capital riesgo que desean invertir en el sector de los servicios financieros.
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Tecnología
Como asesores de confianza desde hace muchos años en el sector tecnológico, ofrecemos soluciones pragmáticas e innovadoras que le permiten tomar decisiones informadas sobre la mejor manera de maximizar su éxito.
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Especialidades industriales
Combinamos nuestro profundo conocimiento del sector con una astuta conciencia comercial y un alcance mundial.
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