What We Do

Our Services

As commercial and maritime law specialists, our services cover the spectrum of wet and dry shipping, and general commercial matters. Click the ‘+’ below to read through for more detail.

Casualty Management
  • Covering such casualties as groundings, collisions, wrecks, fire, pollution, damage to third party property (FFO), loss of or damage to cargo, unsafe port issues
  • Initial response, investigation, evidence preservation, coordinating response and mitigation, advising on liability and risk management, management of media and communications with authorities, management of internal communications
  • Dealing with any resulting regulatory inquiries, and civil, criminal or regulatory actions
  • General commercial litigation – Federal and State Courts in Australia.
  • Admiralty litigation – including in relation to vessel arrest, multi-jurisdictional issues, limitation, judicial sale and priorities.
  • International arbitration – including on SCMA, SIAC, LMAA rules, and domestic commercial arbitration
  • Administrative review – internal departmental review, merits review in administrative tribunals, judicial review.
  • Defence of regulatory prosecutions.
  • Claims management and dispute resolution through negotiation, and other appropriate non-litigious means.

Advising on, and assisting with drafting, reviews, due-diligence, negotiations and post-execution management of a range of commercial and maritime contracts, including contracts for:

  • the carriage of goods (including all manner of charterparties concerning carriage of wet and dry bulk, breakbulk and project and heavy-lift cargo)
  • the hire and operation of offshore vessels including facilities and OSVs
  • ship sale and purchase
  • shipbuilding, repair and conversion
  • marine operations including towage, offshore support, salvage, wreck removal, pollution clean-up
  • port/terminal operations and use
  • sale of goods and offtake
  • equipment hire and leases
  • port state and flag state control issues
  • marine operations (DCV and Navigation Act – including show cause notices, reviews of decisions)
  • port operations (including towage, pilotage)
  • offshore energy (including safety cases, vessel and facility registration, and regulatory oversight)
  • environmental regulation, emissions reporting
  • commercial fishing
  • export control issues
  • responding to show cause notices and FOI requests
  • administrative review

Client Sectors

Nair Legal advises clients across the full spectrum of the maritime and trade industries. Our clients range from vessel owners and insurers to port operators, logistics providers and commodity exporters. We understand the regulatory, commercial, and operational complexities of these sectors and provide tailored legal support to help them navigate risk, resolve disputes, and achieve commercial objectives.

We regularly work with clients in the following areas:

Shipping

Owners, charterers, managers, and operators of vessels engaged in the carriage of cargo and passengers (including ferry operators).

Marine insurers, particularly P&I Clubs; other liability insurers; H&M and cargo underwriters; insurance brokers.

Including those engaged in towage, transhipment, marine pilotage, salvage, commercial diving, marine construction and dredging, subsea cable-laying.

Marine tourism and cruise operators.

Freight forwarders; international logistics service providers; agents and brokers.

 

Energy (Offshore)

Operators of offshore support vessels; offshore subsea and marine management service providers; owners, charterers, operators of offshore facilities.

Holders of fishing and/or aquaculture authorisations; operators of commercial fishing vessels.

Operators of ports and terminals, port and harbour authorities.

Mining and resources companies, other exporters, traders, and brokers particularly engaged in commodities trade to and from Australia.

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