(Partner); Admitted, 2013, Germany.
Dr. Vivian Fuchs specialises in international commercial and company law with a focus on the maritime sector. An essential area of her work, in addition to representing and providing general advice to German and international shipping lines, brokers, forwarders and issuing houses, is shipbuilding, as well as buying and selling of ships, registering vessels and ship mortgages in all major flag States. She also advises on all aspects of dry shipping, especially charterparties and bills of lading.
Dr. Vivian Fuchs studied law at the Universities of Heidelberg and Barcelona. After a legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court Hamburg with stages including the German Embassy and a lawfirm specialised in shipping law both in London, she obtained a doctorate degree with her thesis on closed-end shipping funds at the University of Hamburg. After having worked two years at a lawfirm specialised in maritime law she joined our lawfirm in 2015.
Dr. Vivian Fuchs is a member of the German Association for International Maritime Law. She is admitted to practise at the German Bar as a member of the Bar Association of Hamburg. Besides her mother language German she speaks English and Spanish.
She has been a partner in the law firm and a partner in the registered partnership since 2017.
