24 Mar 2025
NEMO is thrilled to announce that Reed Smith has become an Associate member.
Reed Smith is a dynamic international law firm dedicated to helping clients move their businesses forward. It’s team of 3,000 people (including more than 1,600 lawyers) operates across more than 30 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, delivering smarter, more creative legal services that drive better outcomes for clients.
The firm has a strategic model focused on five key industry groups, each comprising multi-disciplinary practices, including market-leading Transportation and Energy and Natural Resources groups. Its global shipping team consists of more than 120 lawyers, including seafarers and Master Mariners. A track record of advising clients for nearly 100 years gives the firm an unparalleled knowledge of business operations and challenges, as well as strong connections and excellent working relationships across the shipping industry. Whether clients are financing, re-financing or restructuring their business, are dealing with a marine casualty, navigating a cargo claim or charter problem, managing a shipbuilding dispute or other shipping related roadblock such as a sanctions violation or regulatory issue, the Reed Smith team is trusted to tackle some of the most challenging work on the market.
The team is at the forefront of the sustainability and technological challenges facing the industry, highlighted by members of the team taking key industry roles around some of the new maritime decarbonisation regulations. This aligns to the team’s broader commitment to leading change in the sector.