Norton Rose Fulbright advises on Costamare Shipping - Doehle joint venture

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has advised entities owned by the shareholders of Costamare Shipping Co. S.A. in relation to the joint venture with Döhle.

The newly formed German company will act as charter broker to leading boxship providers, German owned Döhle and Greek owned Costamare, and their combined fleet of over 250 container ships, making it one of the largest containership fleets in the world available to containership end users.

The Norton Rose Fulbright team was led by banking partner Dimitri Sofianopoulos (head of Norton Rose Fulbright Greece and Norton Rose Fulbright Monaco) together with Hamburg based Norton Rose Fulbright partners Timo Noftz (shipping), Uwe Eppler (tax) and Ludger Verfuerth (corporate).

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Meeta Vadher, Senior PR Manager
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