The contracts I work on.

§1

EPCI & FT&I — Major offshore installations

An EPCI contract — Engineering, Procurement, Construction & Installation — is a single turnkey contract for an offshore capital project. The contractor takes on everything: design the asset, source the parts, build it, install it. The owner gets one counterparty, a fixed scope and (usually) a fixed price. Most of the legal work sits in how the parties share risk when something doesn't go to plan: supplier failures, interface clashes, weather windows, regulatory changes. FT&I (Fabrication, Transportation & Installation) is the same idea narrowed to the build-and-install phase. Both sit behind floating production units, FPSOs and offshore wind installations.

• $100M+

  Gulf of Mexico

  FT&I — multiple FPU units

  Procurement, pile fabrication and installation under U.S. regulatory compliance.

• $10–100M

  Brazilian pre-salt

  EPCI — FPSO unit

  Liability and risk allocation structured to protect project timelines.

• Offshore wind

  T&I — Offshore wind farms

  Transportation & Installation contracts for offshore wind. Weather-window risk, liability caps and contractor obligations.

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Charterparties & vessel chartering

A charterparty is the contract behind hiring a vessel. In offshore, most of them sit on top of BIMCO standard forms — Supplytime for offshore service vessels, TOWCON and TOWHIRE for towage, HEAVYCON and HEAVYLIFTVOY for heavy-lift cargo. BIMCO forms matter because everyone in the market recognises them; the negotiation happens in the rider clauses bolted onto the standard text. Most of the legal weight sits in three places: knock-for-knock indemnities (each party covers its own people and property regardless of fault), off-hire (when does the charterer stop paying) and liability caps. Get those three wrong and a small operational hiccup becomes a multi-million-dollar dispute.

• €1–10M

  North Sea

  BIMCO Supplytime 2017

  Subsea infrastructure deployment, with project-specific rider clauses on liability and contractor obligations.

• €1–10M

  Mediterranean

  Heavy-lift offshore logistics

  Heavy-equipment transport, with performance guarantees and HSE compliance tied to delivery milestones.

• Ongoing

  TOWCON · SUPPLYTIME · HEAVYCON · HEAVYLIFTVOY

  Vessel chartering across BIMCO standard offshore forms.

§3

Framework & supply agreements

A framework agreement is the master contract that sits above repeated orders or services with the same supplier. Instead of negotiating every project from scratch, the parties agree once on pricing, quality, delivery, liability and dispute resolution — then issue individual call-offs under that framework as projects come up. In offshore, frameworks cover equipment supply (drill pipe, valves, subsea components), specialist services (ROV, diving, surveying) and recurring vessel charters. Done well, they compress costs, shorten lead times and remove the friction of re-negotiating the same terms across concurrent programmes. The legal craft is in writing terms that survive ten projects, not one.

• Cross-border

  Multi-year framework supply

  Framework with key equipment suppliers across multiple offshore programmes. Pricing, delivery and quality terms designed to reduce supply costs and improve lead times.

§4

Marine claims & insurance

Marine insurance covers the marine adventure: vessels, cargo, freight and the liabilities that come with moving things at sea. The two pillars are Hull & Machinery (which covers physical damage to the vessel) and P&I — Protection & Indemnity — which covers third-party liabilities for cargo, crew, pollution and collision. When something goes wrong — a collision, equipment damage, a cargo loss — a marine claim file opens. The work is mostly factual reconstruction (surveyors, technical experts, witness statements) and coverage analysis. A policy isn't the same as actual cover: exclusions, warranties and limits often mean an insurer can decline. The lawyer's job is to close the gap, or fight to close it.

• €1–10M

  Offshore

  High-value asset claims

  Asset claims for insurers and vessel owners following collisions and equipment damage. Surveyors, technical experts and settlement strategy.

• Offshore

  Hull & machinery cover

  Coverage and claims advice on cargo, offshore supply equipment and subsea assets.