Maritime merchants

Maritime merchants

Huisheng is recognized by the industry as a leader in maritime and commercial legal services, with unparalleled experience in this field. Huisheng Law Firm has gathered several expert level senior lawyers with good professional ethics and rich practice experience, and is equipped with three well-known Chinese maritime law experts, one senior ocean captain, and one senior foreign expert as senior maritime law or navigation or foreign legal advisors. Among the lawyers of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs, there are not only professional lawyers who have studied, exchanged or worked overseas, but also many outstanding ones from relevant universities. All members are bilingual lawyers who can proficiently use Chinese and English to work.

Our firm is capable of providing comprehensive legal services to domestic and foreign shipowners, P&I associations, ship operators, brokers, charterers, insurance companies, shippers, freight forwarders, port operators, logistics companies, etc. We are particularly skilled in the following areas of legal affairs:

• The transportation of goods by sea involved in transport documents such as bills of lading, ocean bills, and intermodal transport documents

• Coastal and inland transportation

• Voyage charter, time charter, and bareboat charter

• Ship detention and maritime guarantee

• Goods retention, maritime injunction

• Agency Agreement, Ship Agency, Freight Forwarding

• Multimodal transportation and logistics services

• Rescue, towing, towing, pilotage

• Ocean engineering (offshore oil and gas extraction, storage and transportation, and environmental protection, etc.)

• Collision, collision, and grounding

• Maritime rescue

• Oil pollution and environmental damage

• Maritime casualties

• Sale, construction, repair, leasing, and financing of ships, other maritime mobile devices, or containers

• Salvage and removal of sunken ships and debris

• Common and particular average

• port operation

• Investigation and Handling of Maritime Fraud

• Maritime administrative litigation

In addition, due to the presence of several well-known domestic legal experts and scholars, as well as rich practical experience, and long-term participation in many shipping legislation in China, our firm is often invited to provide the following forms of non litigation legal services to domestic and foreign clients:

• Provide legislative consultation to relevant government agencies on the formulation and revision of laws, regulations, or other normative documents

• Provide expert legal opinions or general legal opinions

• Provide enterprise planning and legal consulting services for domestic and foreign transportation and logistics enterprises

• Provide legal advice or provide legal opinions on China's shipping policies

• Assist and represent clients in negotiations for investment and financing projects, or communicate and coordinate with relevant government departments

• Provide comprehensive legal services for the construction and financing of major projects such as seaports, airports, and logistics centers

• Provide full legal services for foreign investment projects in the maritime industry

• Handle the relevant procedures for the establishment, change, and cancellation of resident representative offices of foreign enterprises, foreign-invested enterprises and their subsidiaries on behalf of others

• Draft and review the terms of bills of lading, ocean waybills, and other transportation documents, as well as legal documents related to business contracts

• Other forms of non litigation legal services requested by the client