In what ways are a team of legal professionals of multiple nationalities better equipped to face the sector’s challenges? In my case, I chair the shipping law portfolio of Allievi Larre-Marins & Pezoa, a law firm exclusively dedicated to international trade law. As you can see, shipping law is only one link in the immense supply chain. Thus, all the lawyers who make up this boutique firm are dedicated to various branches of the commercial business. Thus, there is a branch of maritime law, a branch of customs law, a branch of banking law and a branch of international law. In this way, our advice and representation are comprehensive and enable trade players to rely on lawyers in all segments of the supply chain. The firm’s lawyers are the most prominent in their disciplines and in their respective countries. But what is perhaps most relevant is the fact that all the lawyers reside in different countries and we have offices in the main cities of South America: Santiago de Chile, Buenos Aires, Lima, Asunción, Santos, Caracas, Valparaíso and Huasco Port. Thus, our coverage is total in the Pacific, Atlantic and Caribbean oceans. Together with this, we maintain a wide network of correspondents in Central America, mainly in Panama, and a consolidated team of non-legal professionals, such as accountants, auditors, experts in foreign trade and even a ship’s captain for technical or expert matters. All this consolidates us as a leading law firm in South America, with a huge and powerful presence in all latitudes. Our way of working is joint and we make use of new information technologies to serve our clients. We hold meetings mainly by telematic means using modern digital platforms, which allows all partners in the various countries to be present in front of the client, and the latter has the convenience of not having to travel from their country of origin to one or more South American cities. This makes us the only law firm in Latin America to implement a technological system to serve our clients and has THOUGHT LEADER 93 At the beginning of the pandemic only two shipping companies qualified as large-cap companies, yet as of June this year that number has increased to six.
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