Black Sea Law Company

Black Sea Law Company offers a wide range of corporate services in Ukraine, from the incorporation of all types of companies, structuring holdings and commercial groups, including, but not limited, trading, ship owning and operating the business, to handling complex corporate disputes between shareholders and entities, either private sector and state authorities. We combine vast experience with a wealth of knowledge of local law and business practice.

The successful experience of our Team includes investigating fraud in the shipping industry, auditing the financial activities and management efficiency of Shipping companies, as well as advising on a wide range of corporate governance issues for companies providing maritime services, such as ship management, ship repair, bunkering, crewing, ship agency services, etc.

Our Team advises clients on a broad range of finance and private equity matters. This includes advising major lenders, operating companies, and equity investors on all aspects of the financing of ships. Black Sea Law Company focuses on both cross-border and domestic shipping finance.

The Company’s lawyers’ experience in Maritime litigation and arbitration is the undisputed indicator of excellent work in this sector. Our lawyers offer our Clients the best legal support in Ukrainian courts, including the Supreme Court of Ukraine and International Arbitration Institutions. Our specialists are involved in the most complicated Maritime disputes and cases in Ukraine, Europe, the USA, and Asia. Our Clients are shipowners, P&I Clubs, banks, charterers, managers, agents, shipbuilders, suppliers as well as bunker, grain, seed, and other commodity traders, who are major players in the international shipping market.

We successfully protect our Clients’ interests in arrests of vessels, collisions, bunkers, cargo, and charter party cases, and ensure enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. Furthermore, we have great experience in disputes arising from ship repair and ship-building contracts.
Hard work, high standards, and a professional attitude to each client and every occasion, gave us the opportunity to achieve international recognition.

We advise on a broad range of shipping and international trade issues and provide legal support in matters relating to:

- Arbitration and ADR (LMAA, LCIA, FOSFA, GAFTA, etc.)
- Enforcement of court arbitration awards, judgments, and mortgages
- Cargo claims
- Bunker and other supply claims
- Shipbuilding and ship repair disputes
- Marine insurance
- Ship sale & purchase disputes
- Collisions, salvage, and wrecks
- Environmental regulation
- Ship and crew management agreements
- Vessel ownership disputes
- Shipping fraud and asset tracing
- Ship Mortgage
- International Sanctions
- Inland Water Transport

Our real estate team advises a wide range of Ukrainian, EU-based and other international clients, including developers, landlords, investors and financiers.

Whoever you are and whatever your property needs, members of our experienced and dedicated team have the experience and resources to provide the advice and support you need.

Real estate remains one of the most stable assets, which is related to the profitability of investing in this industry. Financing and investments require a complex approach and risk analysis, which is professionally provided by our team. We conduct comprehensive due diligence, including sanction and regulatory compliance, providing clients with professional service.

Our projects include:

- investments in real estate

- commercial real estate and private property

- financing of real estate projects

- public-private partnership

- construction

- industrial investment