Shipping moves across time zones, flag states, and jurisdictions that legacy law firms are often too slow to match. Our maritime practice runs on the clock the industry actually keeps.
BauHaus advises owners, charterers, operators, insurers, and financiers across the full life cycle of a vessel and a voyage. From newbuild and financing through charter and voyage disputes, casualties, arrests, and cross-border enforcement, we act in New York and coordinate with local counsel wherever a matter takes us. We are conversant in English and U.S. admiralty law, the Hague-Visby, Hamburg, and Rotterdam regimes, BIMCO and ASBA forms, and the rules of SMA, LMAA, SCMA, and HKIAC.
What we do
Charter parties and contracts of affreightment. Cargo claims, misdelivery, and bills of lading disputes. Vessel finance, registration, and mortgage enforcement. Shipbuilding, sale and purchase, and recycling contracts. Casualties, salvage, general average, and collisions. Vessel arrest and sister-ship proceedings. Pollution, sanctions, and environmental compliance. Marine insurance, P&I coverage, and subrogation. Crewing and personal-injury matters. Maritime arbitration in New York, London, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
How we use AI
Our maritime workflow ingests charter chains, bills of lading, AIS voyage data, and disclosure bundles at a speed that allows us to brief the right authority before the window closes. Sanctions and beneficial-ownership diligence, voyage-event chronologies, and rider-clause maps are produced in days, not weeks.
Why BauHaus
Shipping matters live and die on speed. Hours matter to a master taking on water. Days matter to a charterer racing a laycan. Weeks matter to a lender enforcing against a vessel. A senior admiralty attorney responds to inbound matters within 24 hours, seven days a week.
Representative matters
Illustrative only. Acted for an LNG carrier owner on a ten-year time charter negotiation. Represented a cargo interest in a $45M dry-bulk cargo claim under Hague-Visby. Acted for a lender on the enforcement of a first-preferred ship mortgage. Closed a 9-vessel S&P portfolio acquisition for a U.S.-based shipping fund.
