The practice applies the know-how and experience acquired in two decades of intensive work in a multiplicity of cases in the focused areas.

 

A recommendation by the directory Chambers & Partners has been constantly issued in Carlos Costa e Silva since 2010. The present one is as Band 2 for Shipping & Transport and reads:

 

Carlos Costa e Silva represents shipowners, charterers and banks in various shipping matters. He advises on the registration of vessels and ship mortgages

  

Focused Areas:

 

Commercial Law

Commercial Litigation

Shipping (including Ship Finance)

Transport (specially CMR)

Insurance

Distribution Law

Distribution Litigation

 

Cases and matters frequently handled:

 

Advice on commercial matters (contracts, business and corporate)

Litigation on commercial matters

Arbitration on commercial matters

Transport litigation (both maritime and land (CMR))

Ship Arrests and litigation and advice on matters associated to Shipping (cargo, collisions, pollution, others)  

Advice on matters of Ship Finance, Ship Flagging & Ship mortgages

Advice on Distribution issues

Litigation on Distribution disputes, especially in connection with termination and clientele.

 

Type of clients:

       

Businesses in general, with emphasis on the following:

Companies

Foreign lawyers and law firms (*)

Banks

Businesspeople

Insurers

Reinsurers

P&Is

Claims’ managers

Brokers

Ship owners

Cargo owners

Carriers

 

Principles

 

The practice is client focused, aiming to deliver work of value for the client’s interests;  

 

It is guided by the imperativeness to execute timely actions;

 

It provides the highest standards of information and update to the client (*);

 

Down to earth assessment of cases and matters;

 

Intensive study of all angles and possibilities of a case or of a defence;

 

The practice is client committed in the stages of litigation and interaction with third parties.  

 

(*) Foreign lawyers, either at firms or offices, as well as head-consuls and in-houses, are frequent clients and the practice is accustomed to meet the highest standards of update and information demanded by those practices.