Cozen O'Connor

Cozen O'Connor‘s maritime regulatory team acts for shipping liner trade associations, joint ventures, consortia, carrier alliances, and equipment pools. The group consistently represents maritime companies in regulatory and competition issues, as well as in relation to maritime-related US sanctions. The practice also comprises experts in Jones Act work (and other US cabotage laws), and matters regulated by the Federal Maritime Commission, Coast Guard, Maritime Administration, Customs and Border Protection, and Office of Foreign Assets Control. On the litigation front, the team acts in major marine casualties, as well as complex personal injury, wrongful death, loss of cargo and pollution claims. In Washington DC, David Heffernan is transportation and trade group chair; Jeffrey Lawrence and Robert Magovern regularly appear before DC’s federal transportation and trade agencies, as well as before foreign governments and international organizations; Wayne Rohde and Jeff Vogel are ’go-to individuals in this space’; and Joshua Stein and Matthew Howell also handle maritime-related regulatory matters. Over in New York, Geoffrey Ferrer‘s expertise encompasses maritime lien and mortgage enforcement actions; and Christopher Raleigh focuses on maritime-related litigation and arbitration.