Elías Bestani

Elías F. Bestani specializes in shipping and maritime law, insurance and reinsurance in addition to the resolution of complex disputes. He advises clients on ship-finance, ship-building and ship-purchase contracts and in the merchant marine and cabotage regimes. He has experience in the structuring of LNG operations and has negotiated time and bareboat charters and volume contracts. He advises clients in marine pollution matters, collisions and in the arrest of ships. Elías also advises clients in insurance—marine and non-marine— and reinsurance, including claims and regulations. He has advised clients in the setting up of insurance companies, their investment regime, portfolio transfers and in strategic distribution arrangements. He has handled complex litigation, including cases involving sovereign immunity and oil price disputes, heard by the Argentine Supreme Court. He also advises clients on cross-border litigation. · Marval O’Farrell Mairal

ArgentinaShipping & Maritime, Insurance & ReinsuranceEnglish, Spanish

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Elías F. Bestani is a leading partner at Marval O’Farrell Mairal in Argentina, specialising in shipping and maritime law, insurance and reinsurance and the resolution of complex disputes. He advises on ship finance, shipbuilding and purchase contracts, time and bareboat charters, LNG structuring, marine pollution, arrests of ships and cross‑border litigation, and has handled high‑profile matters heard by the Argentine Supreme Court.

Practice areas

Shipping & MaritimeInsurance & ReinsuranceLitigation & Arbitration

Office

Argentina

Marval O’Farrell Mairal · Elías F. Bestani specializes in shipping and maritime law, insurance and reinsurance in addition to the resolution of complex disputes. He advises clients on ship-finance, ship-building and ship-purchase contracts and in the merchant marine and cabotage regimes. He has experience in the structuring of LNG operations and has negotiated time and bareboat charters and volume contracts. He advises clients in marine pollution matters, collisions and in the arrest of ships. Elías also advises clients in insurance—marine and non-marine— and reinsurance, including claims and regulations. He has advised clients in the setting up of insurance companies, their investment regime, portfolio transfers and in strategic distribution arrangements. He has handled complex litigation, including cases involving sovereign immunity and oil price disputes, heard by the Argentine Supreme Court. He also advises clients on cross-border litigation.

Argentina

Expertise

Ship financeShipbuilding and ship-purchase contractsTime and bareboat charters and volume contractsStructuring of LNG operationsMarine pollution, collisions and ship arrestsInsurance company setup, investment regime and portfolio transfersReinsurance and insurance claims and regulationCross-border litigation including sovereign immunity and oil price disputes

Education

Undergraduate degree in Law, Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires (1999)
LL.M., Columbia University in the City of New York (2003)

Languages

EnglishSpanish