We act for Insurers, P&I Clubs, Ship owners, Charterers, Shipbuilders, Financiers, Port authorities, Oil Majors and Oil Traders in both dry shipping (charter parties, bills of lading and maritime insurance) and wet shipping (collisions, salvage and towage).

Our 30 years of maritime law experience ensures that we understand the terms and practices of the maritime world and our firm has contributed to developments in maritime law that are now regarded as the benchmark of international maritime trade. Zaiwalla & Co has acted in over 72 cases reported in the English and International Law Reports as having set a new legal precedent.

In the case of “LA PINTADA”, a test case concerning the law on interest & liability for compound interest in a maritime dispute, the firm succeeded for the President of India, in the Indian Government’s first ever success in the House of Lords.