A dedicated marine practice built on the founder's certified maritime-law background and a working partnership with one of the largest independent tanker fleets in the Asia-Pacific. Shipping, marine structures, marine and ship-mounted power, and maritime law — one desk.
The Marine desk advises ship-owners, charterers, traders, sovereign port authorities, IPP developers, lenders and insurers on the commercial, legal and engineering dimensions of marine assets. It draws on three direct sources: the founder's Lloyd's-certified maritime law, the IPTG / Zhong Heng Thai trading group's fleet and storage infrastructure, and the house's downstream engineering partnerships.
Time- and voyage-charter strategy, COA structuring, freight derivatives, fleet deployment, S&P advisory. Coverage of crude, clean and dirty products, chemicals, LPG and dry bulk — with the IPTG fleet (47 oil and gas tankers) and 30 million cbm of Asian storage available behind the desk.
Marine terminals, single-point moorings, jetties, FSRU and FSO infrastructure, marine pipelines and offshore loading systems. Owner's-engineer / PMC mandates from concept through commissioning. Co-delivered with the Energy desk on integrated refinery-marine programmes.
Powership and floating-power programme advisory — gas-fired, dual-fuel and LNG-to-power barges, FSRUs feeding shore-side generation, modular floating generation for islands and coastal corridors. Commercial structuring, host-government PPA work, lender and ECA strategy.
Floating small modular reactor (SMR) programmes — the Akademik Lomonosov precedent and successor designs. Commercial, legal and host-government structuring for floating-NPP procurement and deployment. Delivered exclusively in partnership with vetted nuclear engineering counterparties; nothing on the public surface beyond programme positioning.
Lloyd's-certified maritime law — charterparties, bills of lading, marine insurance, P&I matters, salvage, demurrage and laytime, cross-border dispute resolution. Co-delivered with Consulting's Legal & Strategy line.
Vessel finance, ECA-backed shipbuilding, sale-and-leaseback structures, mortgage and aircraft-mortgage style packages. Co-ordinated with Capital on cross-asset structures.
The Marine desk operates in partnership with IPTG — a multinational group of independent oil, petroleum and chemicals trading, shipping, storage and financing companies, with ownership of 47 oil and gas tankers, more than 30 million cubic metres of storage in Asia, and a physically traded liquid-commodity book exceeding 40 million tons. The founder is partner, chairman and legal representative for Russia and CIS.
The Marine desk covers the full asset surface of a deep-water trading and infrastructure operation. Coverage extends from the vessels themselves to the terminals they call at and the floating power assets that increasingly use those terminals as their host points.
VLCC, Suezmax, Aframax, LR1/LR2, MR2, Handysize. Clean and dirty trades. Newbuild advisory through scrapping.
Stainless and coated chemical tankers, LPG fully-pressurised and semi-refrigerated, LNG conventional and reliquefaction tonnage.
Capesize, Panamax, Supramax, Handysize. Iron-ore, coal, grain, fertiliser and minor-bulk trades.
FSO, FSRU, accommodation vessels, supply and anchor-handling tonnage, offshore-construction support vessels.
Crude and product marine terminals, single-point moorings, jetties, conventional buoy moorings, FSRU berths, marine pipelines and onshore tank storage.
Powership barges, LNG-to-power floating assets, FSRU-coupled generation, modular floating generation for islands and coastal corridors.
The Marine desk maintains a discreet practice in floating small-modular-reactor (SMR) programmes — advising sovereign and sponsor counterparties on the commercial, legal, and host-government structuring of floating-NPP procurement and deployment. The reference programme in this market is the Russian Akademik Lomonosov, in commercial operation in Pevek since 2019, and the successor designs in development.
This work is conducted under three rules: (1) strictly in partnership with vetted nuclear-engineering counterparties capable of holding the technical content; (2) under whatever non-proliferation, IAEA, and host-state licensing framework the deployment requires; and (3) never advertised on the public surface beyond programme-level positioning. Specific mandates are discussed only with verified counterparties in person, under NDA.
The Marine desk's role on these mandates is the commercial overlay — capital structuring, host-government statecraft, lender and ECA strategy, sovereign communications, the legal envelope, and the long-life stewardship view. The nuclear engineering remains with the nuclear engineers.
The Marine desk delivers five distinct service lines — each operated to institutional standard, each available individually or in combination across a single mandate.
Full chartering desk capacity across crude, clean and dirty products, chemicals, LPG, LNG, and dry bulk. Time-charter, voyage-charter, bareboat and COA structuring. Freight derivatives. Owner- and charterer-side broking through the IPTG network. Pre- and post-fixture support. Operations coverage 24/7.
Backed by the IPTG fleet (47 oil & gas tankers) and 40+ Mt physical trading book.
Full ship-management services for principals who own tonnage and do not wish to run an in-house technical organisation. Crewing, classification interface, ISM/ISPS, dry-docking and major-survey programmes, vetting (OCIMF/SIRE 2.0, CDI), spare-parts and condition-based maintenance, voyage performance, fuel-management and emissions reporting under CII/EEXI/EU-ETS.
Lloyd's-trained maritime-law capacity. Charterparty drafting (BIMCO and bespoke), bills of lading, marine insurance & P&I matters, salvage and casualty advisory, demurrage and laytime, cross-border dispute resolution. Sanctions and OFAC posture on every voyage. Flag-state, port-state, and MARPOL compliance.
Full marine consulting capacity — fleet strategy, market analysis, vessel feasibility studies, technology and licensor selection, partner search and structuring, owner's-engineer / PMC mandates on marine infrastructure programmes (terminals, SPMs, FSRU, powership host ports), commercial and technical due diligence, port-state and host-government advisory.
Vessel and project finance for marine assets. ECA-backed shipbuilding paper (Hermes, K-SURE, NEXI, Sinosure), commercial-bank syndication, leasing and sale-and-leaseback structures, sponsor-equity raises, Sharia-compliant marine finance (Murabaha / Ijara), restructuring of distressed marine debt. Co-delivered with the Capital desk.
End-to-end project-management consultancy on marine infrastructure programmes — marine terminals, SPMs, FSRU developments, powership host-port programmes, ship-mounted nuclear deployments. From feasibility through commercial operation.
Charterer- or owner-side advisory on fleet strategy, COA structuring, S&P, newbuild orders, fleet renewal, and operational reform. Coordinated with IPTG operating capacity where helpful.
Principals can outsource the entire marine function to the desk — chartering, technical management, legal cover, and finance — under a single master agreement. Designed for industrial groups, family offices, and sovereign principals who do not wish to staff an in-house maritime team.
Defined-scope mandates: a single charter file, a single newbuild, a single restructuring, a single marine-terminal programme, a single financing. Fixed scope, fixed fee, named senior partner.