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Douglas Shoemaker
Overview
Douglas Shoemaker is a Partner of BLANKROME Houston, and member of the Maritime Emergency Response Team (“MERT”). Douglas focuses his practice on complex maritime transactions and litigation. He has over 25 years’ experience advising clients on a wide range maritime law topics, including charter party negotiation and drafting, arbitration, vessel construction and flagging, purchase and sale, and mergers and acquisitions, personal injury, property damage, pollution, onboard investigations, navigational error, Jones Act, stevedoring accidents, cargo damage defense, and general average. He has particular experience in:
• Negotiating and drafting complex maritime agreements, including vessel construction, purchase and sale; time, voyage and bareboat charter parties; towage; contracts of affreightment; bills of lading; master services agreements; general terms and conditions; indemnity and insurance provisions
• Defending maritime personal injury and property damage cases in state and federal courts
• Arbitrations before the Society of Maritime Arbitrators in New York, the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, the Houston Maritime Arbitrators Association, the American Arbitrators Association, and JAMS
• Defending and prosecuting maritime seizure proceedings
• Insurance defense and coverage
• Domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, particularly concerning maritime assets and issues.
