Fourteen practice areas
across nautical & maritime law.
Astrabe's marine legal services line covers the asset, the contract and the dispute around it — fourteen practice areas across the yacht, commercial, and nautical-business audience: vessel purchase & sale; legal due diligence; nautical and maritime contracts; charter; registration, flag and vessel documentation; legal compliance review; shipyards, repairs, maintenance and refit; marine insurance and claims; nautical claims and dispute resolution; brokerage, intermediation and broker relations; yacht management and nautical services provision; documentation review for navigation and operations in Spain; general terms and contractual documentation for nautical businesses; and comprehensive legal coordination of nautical operations. Direct line: hello@astrabemarine.com.
Direct line — partner-led, not delegated
hello@astrabemarine.comThe legal-services umbrella under Astrabe's wider mandate.
The marine legal services line sits squarely on the legal side of Astrabe's split — alongside the regulatory compliance mandate (Med ECA, EU ETS, CII, IHM, CSRD / ESG), the bunkering line (with its BDN / EU ETS surrender discipline), the yacht management line, and the yacht-survey line. The legal-services umbrella owns the asset, the contract, and the dispute around it. The regulatory compliance mandate remains anchored on the home page and on its own reference pages.
Asset, contract, dispute — fourteen areas.
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Med ECA · EU ETS · CII · IHM · CSRD / ESG.
See the home page practice areas.
Fourteen numbered areas — the work we do, itemised.
Each area is a discrete engagement shape; most matters combine two or three. We will tell you in the scoping call whether the work is one of these, a combination, or something we should refer by name to a firm that owns it.
- Legal review of purchase / sale transactions
- Drafting and review of purchase contracts
- Review of letters of intent, offers, reservations, and preliminary agreements
- Advice during buyer / seller / broker negotiation
- Review of price, deposit, technical inspection, sea trial, delivery, warranty and liability clauses
- Legal coordination of closing
- Review of title, registration, flag and encumbrance documentation
- Coordination with notaries, brokers, surveyors, managers and foreign lawyers
- Title review
- Review of registration records
- Check for liens, encumbrances and seizures
- Review of technical and administrative documentation
- Review of seaworthiness certificates and onboard documentation
- Review of CE marking / conformity documentation (legal-documentary perspective)
- Review of insurance policies
- Identification of legal risks pre-closing
- Findings, risk and recommendations report
- Vessel purchase / sale contracts
- Charter contracts
- Brokerage / intermediation contracts
- Yacht management contracts
- Maintenance, repair and refit contracts
- Shipyard contracts
- Mooring and winter storage contracts
- Nautical service contracts
- Confidentiality agreements
- Engagement letters and general terms
- Review of liability, warranty, penalty, payment and dispute clauses
- Drafting and review of charter contracts
- Review of general terms for clients
- Review of liabilities between owner, broker, manager and client
- Clauses on cancellations, deposits, damages, security deposits and usage conditions
- Advice on charter-related claims
- Coordination with tax, labour and immigration specialists when needed (this service excludes tax, labour and immigration matters directly).
- Assistance with registration procedures
- Ownership transfers
- Vessel name changes
- Private / commercial use changes
- Assistance with Spain's 6th and 7th list procedures
- Review of registry documentation
- Coordination with the Harbour Master's Office, registries and authorities
- Preparation and review of administrative filings
- Follow-up on filings and corrections
- Review of mandatory vessel documentation, certificates, permits and authorisations
- Review of safety / seaworthiness documentation
- Legal review of mandatory insurance policies
- Review of nautical qualification compliance (legal perspective)
- Identification of administrative / contractual risks
- Legal compliance reports
- Support ahead of inspections
- Note: legal-documentary in nature — does not replace the official technical inspections or certifications issued by authorised bodies.
- Drafting and review of repair, refit and maintenance contracts
- Review of quotes, work orders and general terms
- Clauses on deadlines, payments, warranties, damage liability, and additional work
- Claims for delays, defects, breaches and damage
- Negotiation with shipyards, suppliers, marinas and insurers
- Coordination with naval surveyors and technicians
- Legal review of marine insurance policies
- Analysis of coverage, exclusions and insured obligations
- Assistance with claims against insurers
- Defence against third-party claims
- Coordination with surveyors and insurers
- Claims for damage in port / at sea / dry dock / transport / shipyard
- Marine third-party liability claims
- Note: excludes insurance brokerage and sale except in collaboration with an authorised brokerage.
- Claims for breach of purchase / sale contracts
- Claims for hidden defects and non-conformity
- Disputes between buyers, sellers and brokers
- Disputes from charter contracts
- Disputes with shipyards, marinas, workshops and suppliers
- Claims for vessel damage
- Claims against insurers
- Out-of-court negotiation
- Mediation
- Arbitration and judicial proceedings when necessary
- Review of brokerage contracts and commission agreements
- Review of sale / rental mandates
- Advice on the obligations of the parties
- Claims for commissions, breaches or intermediation disputes
- Review of pre-contractual documentation
- Legal support in negotiations between owner, buyer, broker and third parties
- Drafting and review of yacht management contracts
- Nautical service provision contracts
- General terms for management companies
- Supplier contracts
- Review of liabilities between owner, manager, captain, broker and suppliers
- Advice on management-related disputes
- Review of liability, payment, duration, termination and confidentiality clauses
- Review of vessel documentation, flag, ownership and declared use
- Review of authorisations and administrative documentation
- Identification of legal risks for operating in Spain
- Coordination with authorities, marinas, brokers, managers and other professionals
- Legal status reports
- Excludes tax, customs, immigration and labour matters — referred to specialists.
- General contracting terms
- Website legal notices
- Privacy and cookie policy
- Service provision, client and supplier contracts
- Liability, cancellation, data protection, jurisdiction / governing-law and dispute-resolution clauses
- Especially useful for brokers, charter companies, maintenance companies, yacht managers, marinas, nautical schools and service providers
- Coordination with foreign lawyers
- Coordination with tax specialists
- Coordination with labour lawyers
- Coordination with immigration / visa specialists
- Coordination with naval surveyors
- Coordination with brokers, shipyards, marinas and insurers
- Legal oversight from a contractual / documentary perspective
- Identification of risks and referral to specialists when appropriate
Tell us the area, the vessel and the deadline. We respond within one working day.
Same direct-line model as the rest of Astrabe's mandate — no intake form, no sales qualification. Our team takes the first reply and routes the matter to the named counsel.
Direct partner email · not a shared intake address