Admiralty & Maritime

Reitler’s Admiralty and Maritime practice provides highly specialized legal counsel to clients in the shipping and cargo industry and related businesses. Our unique group of attorneys is experienced in resolving all types of disputes relating to vessel construction contracts, charter parties and other contracts and incidents that take place on inland navigable waters and the high seas. As a result, we have been involved in multiple high stakes maritime disputes resulting in several of the largest awards in the maritime arbitral community.

Our talented attorneys have successfully represented both U.S. based and foreign clients in disputes involving vessel purchase and sale; insurance claims; compliance with domestic regulations; environmental and spill issues; shipping industry taxation; ship finance transactions; and capital markets transactions in the shipping and offshore industries.