Fareya Azfar & Araoui LLP

Shipping companies are increasingly exploring alternative financing options. Joint venture financing in the shipping industry enables capital raising from private investors looking at diverse investment opportunities.

We have the specialist niche experience of advising, shipowners, operators and private capital investors in creating industry specific, one of a kind, and multi-entity joint-ventures for vessel acquisition and financing with built-in management structures. 

Disputes are ultimately a business problem, not merely a legal one. Clients must decide whether to pursue, defend, or settle a dispute often without clear visibility into cost, timeline, and realistic commercial outcome. At the heart of our strategy for legal and commercial victories winning complex is Early Case Assessment (“ECA”); a systematic approach to evaluating the strengths and weaknesses, risks, timeline, and cost of a matter. While our extensive experience means we scope work more precisely and anticipate possibilities more than non-specialists, our transdisplinary practice approach means we combine principles of the DuPont legal model with our proprietary SaaS technology to provide unparalleled assessments. The outcome places clients in a position to make a 'business choice' on whether to pursue, settle, or defend a matter.

We advise on the choice between contractual joint ventures (governed by partnership or consortium agreements) and corporate joint ventures We handle entity formation, capitalisation structuring, and regulatory filings across ADGM and other GCC jurisdictions; draft and negotiate definitive agreements that allocate rights, obligations, management authority, and profit distribution.