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Shipping & Maritime Law Firm of the Year Mulla & Mulla Shardul Thacker +91 22 2262 3191 - Board Number +91 22 6634 5496 - Direct Number shardul.thacker@mullaandmulla.com
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ne of India’s largest and most prestigious full service law firms, founded in 1895, the firm has a strength of over 120 lawyers and fee earners. With a sound understanding of commercial and market realities, it provides legal solutions which are legal and of real commercial value. The firm proudly represents MNCs, Fortune 500 Companies and several large Indian Corporates. Partners and lawyers of the firm are members of the IBA, ABA, IPBA, INTA, AMLC amongst others. The firm’s admiralty law practice has a worldwide reputation as specialists in all aspects of shipping laws. Acting for ship owners, charterers, hull & cargo insurers, P&I and Defense Clubs, salvage & tug companies, container handlers, shipbuilders and bunker suppliers, it has acted for international lenders in over 300 ship finance deals in the last decade. Bolstered with a robust litigation and dispute resolution practice, in the last decade the firm has handled over 700 ship arrests in India and 50 arbitrations relating to shipbuilding, oil & gas exploration and charterparties. The firm advises insurance companies in marine insurance, collisions, hijacking, maritime frauds, pollution liability and war risks and interacts with marine surveyors and P&I Clubs. Recent awards won by the firm include Indian Shipping & Maritime Law Firm of the Year, 2012, Corporate LiveWire, Maritime Law Firm of the Year, India, 2012 by Corporate INTL, Shipping & Maritime Law Firm of the Year, India 2012 by Global Law Experts, Indian Law Firm Awards 2011 for Shipping & Maritime by India Business Law Journal, Shipping & Maritime Law Firm of the Year, 2011, India by ACQ Law Awards, Shipping & Maritime Law Firm of the Year, India 2011, by Lawyer Monthly, Shipping Law Firm of the Year in India 2011 by Corporate INTL, Shipping, Maritime & Aviation Award 2008 and 2010 by India Business Law Journal and Transport Law Firm of the Year in India 2010 by Corporate INTL. Key partners are Dr. B.S. Bhesania and Mr. Shardul Thacker, both seasoned admiralty practitioners of world repute. Dr. Bhesania, handles port related matters, has been recognised by Who’s Who Legal and is author of Commentaries on Major Port Trusts Act, 1963. Mr. Thacker has been awarded Banking & Finance and Shipping 2012 and 2011 by Chambers Asia Pacific and the Leading Lawyer Award for Shipping and Maritime from 2003 to 2011 by Asia Law Publication. He is the India correspondent for Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Quarterly and contributes to the India section of the Maritime Law Handbook by Kluwer Law.
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