意外事故和環境事務

Our team members have the experience needed to react quickly when cargo is damaged or personal injury, marine pollution and vessel loss claims arise. With more than 100 years of collective expertise working with all manner of maritime casualties including groundings, sinkings, pollution and collisions, our lawyers can be counted on to respond across the globe. With the assistance of our environmental, health and safety lawyers, we guide clients through environmental crises and assemble teams to resolve large claims. Clients turn to us because our firm has the size, scope and global reach to handle casualty and environmental matters involving complex jurisdictional issues.

The best approach to prevent calamities is through advice on creating effective compliance programs. Beyond our representation in casualty losses, cargo claims and contract disputes, our clients look to our overall strength in white collar criminal, regulatory and environmental law issues.

With a substantial environmental regulation team assisted by our regulatory lawyers based mainly in our Brussels and Washington DC offices, we guide our clients through complex regulatory schemes. We have experience representing our clients before state, federal, and international agencies and organizations in inspections, investigations and documentation. We advise clients on the US Shipping Act, and when questions arise regarding diplomatic, international conventions and trade embargoes we turn to our antitrust, competition & internatioal trade lawyers to bring to bear their direct experience with competition and trade regulation. Many of our lawyers have spent portions of their careers with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Department of Justice, International Trade Commission or the European Commission. The breadth and expertise of our antitrust, competition & international trade team allow us to achieve our clients’ objectives in an expedited and cost-effective manner. We also have extensive experience with national security issues and regulatory proceedings before the many US federal agencies.