The long-standing transportation practice at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP consists of a dedicated shipping team, with lawyers practising from offices across Canada. Its vast client list includes ship-owners, operators, liner companies, charterers, marine terminal operators, defence clubs and ship builders. The team has a reputable dispute offering, often overseeing customs claims, cargo claims, ship arrests and major collision cases. In addition to contentious expertise, the team is also well versed in regulatory and transactional matters. The shipping group, which forms part of the firm’s wider transportation practice, is led by Jean-Marie Fontaine; he advises high-profile clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters with specific expertise in charter party contracts, limitation actions, collisions, spills and the arrest of cargos. Dionysios Rossi is noted for his specialized disputes work.