Phil’s work focuses on transactional and regulatory issues across the transportation services and supply chain management continuum, where he represents users and providers, including manufacturers, distributors, retailers, carriers, brokers, intermediaries, forwarders, and managed transportation service providers in connection with general business consultation, regulatory compliance, drafting and negotiation of contracts, litigation, dispute resolution, enforcement defense, investigations, and audits. Phil’s clients span the spectrum of market participants, so he works closely with clients’ in-house counsel, business teams, and supply chain management colleagues to advise on the legal and regulatory impact of commercial, operational, and enterprise risks.
Phil has broad experience advising clients across all modes of transportation, but he regularly provides strategic legal, commercial, and operational guidance to clients who procure and provide services in the ocean transportation industry, including shippers, ocean transportation intermediaries, drayage carriers and inland service providers, and the steamship lines for the movement of cargoes in international trade as well as the domestic and noncontiguous trade of the United States. Phil has extensive experience counseling clients on maritime and admiralty law issues, ocean regulatory compliance, drafting and negotiating ocean transportation service agreements for all manner of cargoes, including containers, roll-on-roll-off, break bulk, specialty cargoes, and charters, managing and negotiation ocean bids, advising on processes and adjustments to general average and salvage claims, diversion claims, casualty matters, freight charge disputes, and cargo claims for loss, damage, or delay.