Expertise

Transportation

Our transportation practice area provides clients with advice in legal matters relating to passenger and cargo transportation. Our expertise spans all transportation sectors, including air, rail, shipping and trucking. Clients are supported by lawyers with specialized knowledge of a particular transportation sector and also have access to practitioners in related areas, including tax, financing, labour relations, corporate and commercial law.

We offer legal assistance and advice in connection with:

• Sale, purchase or financing of assets and operations
• Obtaining regulatory approvals and permits
• Representation before administrative tribunals and civil courts
• Drafting and enforcing contracts
• Crisis management

For the last 40 years, we have advised many leading companies with dealings in the transportation industry, including banks, insurers, P & I Club, shipping lines, ship operators, shipyards, terminal operators, railways, airlines and aircraft manufacturers, airports, trucking companies, customs brokers, freight forwarders and logistics providers.

Services

• Admiralty and shipping law
• Aviation and aerospace
• Customs and international trade
• Equipment leasing, acquisition and financing
• Insurance Law
• Labour and employment contracts
• Litigation - transportation
• Logistics/transportation contracts
• Railway regulatory matters
• Safety and security
• Ship building and acquisition
• Strategic alliances
• Trucking