Transport, Traffic & Infrastructure

Transport, Traffic & Infrastructure

With an interdisciplinary team of lawyers that has many years of experience in transport, traffic and infrastructure industries, we offer our clients professional and comprehensive advisory services. These services exceed each individual area of specialist expertise and take into account the economic and legal interconnections that occur in practice. The competencies summarized in the Practice Group range from traditional transport and logistics law and transportation insurance law to comprehensive legal advice on infrastructure projects and project management up to maritime law, including ship financing.

Particularly the higher rate of European and international regulations increases the legal requirements on companies in the transportation and logistics industries and in the public sector. By providing comprehensive advice at an early stage, we can help you to organize and implement projects in an optimum manner and to avoid conflicts.

The main focus of the Practice Group includes:

Transportation and Logistics

National and international transport law for all methods of transport including multimodal traffic
Logistics law (such as in connection with outsourcing, supply chain management, data warehousing, etc.)
Forwarding and warehousing law (including complex warehousing solutions)
Transport insurance law (such as insurance for the transport of money and valuables, product consultancy)
Pursuing or defending insurance recovery claims (transport insurance and carrier’s liability insurance)
Legal advice in matters of antitrust and merger control law and representation of transport and logistics companies
Representation in court and arbitration proceedings

Shipping

National and international maritime law including questions relating to bills of lading
Law on domestic shipping
Maritime contract law (such as drafting of ship management and charter agreements, pool and cooperation agreements, management agreements)
Handling and processing of damage events in shipping
Havarie-grosse

National and international maritime arbitration proceedings (such as GMAA and LMAA)
Representation in court of ship owners, ship managers, charterers and insurers
National and international ship arrests
Execution of foreign arbitration awards and judgments
Acquisition and sale of ships
Shipbuilding law
Maritime construction law
Ship financing, structuring of shipping funds, creation of prospectuses
Maritime insurance law (such as P&I, Charterer’s Liability, etc.)
Legal advice to port terminals, shipping companies and suppliers of logistical services in the field of sea port logistics (such as cargo handling companies, stevedoring companies or packaging service providers)
Maritime employment law

Traffic

Legal advice to the public sector and private investors on infrastructure projects
Advising clients on large projects (such as long-term transport agreements or life-cycle projects in road construction)
Providing legal advice on the law on state aids in connection with public promotion of transport investments
Planning and realising public invitations to tender in the transport sector
Legal advice on the privatisation of tasks in the transport sector
Planning and realising restructuring measures, collaborations and PPP projects
Legal advice to private rail operators