OCL MEMBER LAW FIRMS ADVISE CONTRACTORS AND SUBCONTRACTORS IN THE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AND MARITIME INDUSTRIES

Who we are

Offshore Contracting Lawyers (“OCL”) is a network of independent law firms specialised in the international energy and maritime industries. The members of OCL share information on the law of their jurisdictions and work together on cross boarder cases.

The member law firms of OCL are completely autonomous and perform their professional services independently. They are not affiliated for the joint practice of law.

The law firms that are members of OCL provide the following services:

Drafting all types of contracts in the offshore oil and gas and maritime industries.
Assistance with the drafting of contractual qualifications and contract negotiations in tender procedures.
Contract management and the advising on contract disputes.
Handling of arbitration and litigation cases
Asset searching and tracing and bringing actions to seize assets and enforce arbitration awards/court judgments worldwide

expertise

The members of OCL have a vast amount of experience in reviewing and advising on the following types of agreements:

The complete suite of BIMCO contracts, including Supplytime, ASV Time, Bargehire, Towcon, Towhire amongst others
Directional drilling contracts and well workover contracts in the oil and gas and geothermal energy industries
EPCI, T&I and EPC contracts, including the LOGIC and FIDIC suites of contracts
Shipbuilding and vessel sale and purchase contracts
Design and build fabrication contracts
The inhouse charterparties, rental agreements, construction contracts, EPCI, T&I and EPC contracts of the major international contractors and International Oil Companies.

OCL members all have a vast amount of experience handling arbitration and litigation matters concerning the above-mentioned contracts. The members regularly represent energy and offshore clients in arbitration under all the main arbitral rules including LMAA, ICC, LCIA, SIAC, SCC, SCMA, UNCITRAL, UNUM taking place in London, Rotterdam, Paris, New York and other cities in the USA or Singapore.