Shipping, Aviation & Logistics
Due to our team’s extensive experience and our rights of audience before courts throughout the Gulf, we are frequently asked to provide advice on the most intricate, multi-jurisdictional transactions and disputes.
We provide the aviation and maritime sectors, including ports, airlines, owners, charterers, shipyards, agencies, maintenance companies, insurers, banks, and maintenance groups, with a comprehensive range of legal services. Additionally, we provide legal and regulatory advice on matters about shipping, aviation, and logistics to governments around the Gulf.
Practical, business-oriented solutions to ensure client success
Our knowledgeable shipping and aviation attorneys practice in ten Gulf region jurisdictions and have in-depth knowledge of the industry. Our expertise in both international and local laws, along with our in-depth knowledge of the industry, ensures that our advice is practical, effective, and commercial.
In the event of a dispute, we offer practical, individualized counsel intending to effectively resolve the issue and avert other disputes. When necessary, we can provide our clients with strong litigation strategies or other alternatives to resolve disputes. We have the right to audience before all local courts, unlike many other law companies.
Expert guidance from professionals in the field
As a professional user entity registered with the International Registry of Mobile Assets, Al-ajaleen can register aircraft, engines, and related assets on behalf of clients by the Cape Town Convention.
Our multicultural, multilingual staff communicates in Arabic and English in addition to additional languages as needed.
Our expanding staff of more than thirty solicitors includes professionals recognized by respected legal directories Chambers & professionals and Legal 500 as leaders in their respective fields.
Our expertise in logistics, shipping, and aviation
Our services encompass the entire spectrum of legal concerns that clients in this industry may face and consist of
- Envoying
- Dispute settlement
- general counsel, and writing for corporations
- Logistics of shipping
- Construction of vessels Mortgage and finance for vessels and assets
- Logistics and customs
- Trade internationally
- Accidents, pollution, and salvage
- Finance for assets/aircraft
- Aircraft purchase or lease
Our expert customs and international trade services
Our services encompass the entire spectrum of legal matters that clients within this practice may come across and comprise:
- Advising on registrations, declarations, and appraisals, among other customs-related issues.
- Discussions about commerce in goods and services.
- Consultation regarding earlier disclosures to the police.
- Consultation regarding the origin nation and the classification of goods.
- Discussion of concerns with free zone warehouses
- Advising on audits and inspections by customs
- Giving customs compliance advice
- Guiding infractions of customs compliance
- Providing anti-dumping advice, defending clients in front of the appropriate authorities in any talks, and participating in anti-dumping proceedings.
- Representation during administrative hearings and fine reviews.
- Defending clients in court against offenders involved in smuggling and customs audits.
- International trade contracts, logistics services agreements, freight agreements, and their negotiation, preparation, standardization, review, and amendment.