Ilyashev & Partners provides comprehensive legal services for companies whose activities are related to port infrastructure and maritime sector, including seaports, terminals, stevedoring companies, shipyards, ship repair yards, freight forwarders, as well as banks and financial institutions.

We also serve as legal advisers to companies operating in the area of maritime shipping among which are major ship owners, charterers and P&I Clubs.

For many years in a row the firm has been included into the list of TOP-5 law firms in Maritime & Shipping according to the results of national independent research Ukrainian Law Firms. A Handbook for Foreign Clients.

Our cross-disciplinary capabilities include the following:

• Dispute resolution and international arbitration
• Crew claims
• Cargo damage
• Pollution and product liability
• Defending clients’ interests in disputes with port authorities, customs authorities, state environmental inspection bodies and other state authorities 
• Complex marine insurance claims 
• Ship sale and purchase
• Transactional counsel, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and vessel sales
• Financing and the full range of shipping, logistics, marine terminal, salvage and other agreements and contracts 
• Local and international regulatory issues, including environmental law, security regulations and other shipping laws and policies

Our maritime group of lawyers is especially skilled at handling complex international maritime arbitrations, mediations, adjudications, and other forms of alternative dispute resolution. We also regularly represent clients before the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA). We handled a wide variety of international maritime cases as professional arbitrators.