AA is Portugal’s leading firm in the field of shipping finance. Our shipping finance and maritime law team also deals with general contractual issues (time, voyage and bareboat charter parties, analysis and arbitration, and litigation in Portugal), acquisition and sale of vessels, and liability and enforcement issues relating to international commercial and charter contracts. Past and present clients include some of Portugal’s largest shipowners.

AA is also Portugal’s leading law firm in the field of seaport operations. The country’s largest port operators are among its most important clients. Partners have helped draft key Portuguese maritime legislation, including the law regulating stevedoring companies, port concessions and labour regulations for dockworkers.

In the Portuguese port sector, AA has acted in all tender procedures conducted by the authorities for public service port concessions in Portugal, as well as advising on shipyard concessions and on industrial relations in the port and shipyard sector.