In an article for the shipping industry magazine Bunkerspot, firm principal J. Stephen Simms outlines the steps bunker suppliers should take to reduce their exposure to prosecution under new MARPOL Annex VI requirements for supplying compliant fuel.
Read MoreShip owners are typically well aware when their charterers are not paying for their bunkers, but they are quick to claim wrongful arrest whenever a trader or supplier attempts to recover payment for bunkers supplied.
Read MoreIn a recent article for the shipping industry magazine Bunkerspot, firm principal J. Stephen Simms analyzes sales terms, particularly retention of title, and explains their importance in assisting recovery efforts against buyers in light of the game-changing collapse of OW Bunker.
Read MoreA recent article by firm principal J. Stephen Simms can be found in the shipping industry magazine, Bunkerspot.
Read MoreA recent article by firm principal J. Stephen Simms highlights strategies for marine equipment lessors and maritime lien creditors.
Read MoreA recent article by firm principal J. Stephen Simms can be found in the shipping industry magazine, Bunkerspot.
Read MoreOW Bunker's three U.S. entities (OW Bunker Holding, OW Bunker USA, and OW Bunker North America) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday (November 13) in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut.
Read MoreA recent TradeWinds article (available here in PDF format) discusses the race by bunker suppliers to get in front the rapidly evolving bankruptcy of OW Bunker.
Read MoreA recent article in the shipping industry newspaper TradeWinds highlights the growing risk of cybercrime in the shipping industry.
Read MoreIn a recent case, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland (Judge Blake) interpreted a contract’s choice of law provision as excluding the named jurisdiction’s court-made common law, and applied only that state’s procedural law.
Read MoreFirm Principal J. Stephen Simms discusses the growing threat of cyber crime to the bunker industry and its financial implications in a recently published Bunkerspot article.
Read MoreMarios J. Monopolis, an associate with the Firm, has been named to the 2014 Maryland Rising Stars list, published by Super Lawyers.
Read MoreFirm principal J. Stephen Simms discusses how trade sanctions imposed by the United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) can have significant consequences for bunker suppliers in a recent Bunkerspot article.
Read MoreIn what may be the only case of its kind, Simms Showers successfully used a Rule B admiralty action to attach, and ultimately auction, a domain name.
Read MoreThe Firm represents a blacklisted, whistleblowing third engineer who alerted the United States Coast Guard to illegal dumping in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships.
Read MoreA third engineer whistleblower represented by the Firm whose information to the Coast Guard enabled the U.S. government to levy $2,000,000 in fines is awarded $462,500 by a federal district court judge.
Read MoreSimms Showers will represent the victim of a 2009 shooting by a repeat juvenile offender who was supposedly being tracked by an ankle monitoring device.
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