Bynane & Co features a unique facility for handling multi-jurisdictional litigation. A significant part of our practice has involved dealing with complex, multi-jurisdictional litigation and coordinated state law proceedings. This includes experience as national coordinating counsel and in joint defense efforts. As an adjunct to these activities, we are also experienced in alternative dispute resolution activities, both arbitration and mediation.

We have extensive experience in connection with Caribbean jurisdictions, from the West Indies to Central America, arising from vessel arrests, marine casualty claims, charter party disputes, and cargo claims involving difficult or extraordinary situations.

Our Admiralty practice, contentious and non-contentious, offers the following:

• Vessel financing, shipbuilding, and sales contracts, vessel registration and re-flagging, and creation of ship-owning companies.
• Interpretation and enforcement maritime liens, domestic and foreign.
• Vessel arrests.
• Disputes over interpretation of various kinds of marine insurance.
• Charter party disputes and cargo claims.
• Disputes between principals and agents/brokers.
• Marine casualties, collisions and allisions.
• Marine environmental incidents.