About Stephen Hanemann
Stephen Hanemann is a partner in Kean Miller’s New Orleans office. His practice focuses on a wide array of transportation-related subject matters, including admiralty and maritime contracts and disputes involving cargo shipped by vessel, marine-asset, truck and rail; project and asset finance; international trade, import, export, and custom-regulation compliance; municipal law and construction. Stephen has extensive experience in handling contract negotiations, litigation, and dispute resolution related to Jones Act compliance, injury defense, oil and gas exploration, pipeline spills and regulations, drilling accidents, well blowouts, cargo loss and damage, ship and barge collisions and allisions, vessel groundings, lift boat and jack-up rig accidents, dock damage, vessel liens, vessel seizures, cargo seizures, ocean cargo, land-shipped cargo, sunken barges, vessel and marine asset acquisition, product liability, redhibition, commercial lease agreements, inland and offshore vessel-charter parties, contracts of carriage and affreightment, and time charters and terminal-servicing agreements, and other transportation agreements for bulk and break-bulk cargo handlers, shippers, LPG, and LNG terminals and facilities.
Stephen has formed numerous companies in the marine, transport, and construction arenas, and assisted them with various issues relating to contract procurement and negotiation, as well as demolition and remediation services, and operational compliance. Stephen also maintains an active land use practice, which enables him to assist both well-established and new businesses with adherence to zoning requirements and municipal ordinances. From organic food markets and national restaurant brands to local hotels and bars, he is able to guide his clients through issues ranging from ABO and permit procurement, to premises liability, to efficient and compliant daily operating.
Stephen has developed the transactional aspects of his practice by providing a variety of legal and logistical services to commercial and private lenders, including local and national banks, private equity groups and investors, vessel-finance providers, and borrowers such as vessel owners and operators, and owners and operators of oil and gas and pipeline assets. Stephen's representative experience encompasses the preparation of marine asset finance and re-financing documents, including preferred ship and vessel mortgages, security agreements, commercial loan agreements, UCC-1 financing statements, purchase and sale agreements, commercial and personal guarantees, promissory notes, and conventional and unconventional loan closing packages.
Stephen has formed numerous companies in the marine, transport, and construction arenas, and assisted them with various issues relating to contract procurement and negotiation, as well as demolition and remediation services, and operational compliance. Stephen also maintains an active land use practice, which enables him to assist both well-established and new businesses with adherence to zoning requirements and municipal ordinances. From organic food markets and national restaurant brands to local hotels and bars, he is able to guide his clients through issues ranging from ABO and permit procurement, to premises liability, to efficient and compliant daily operating.
Stephen has developed the transactional aspects of his practice by providing a variety of legal and logistical services to commercial and private lenders, including local and national banks, private equity groups and investors, vessel-finance providers, and borrowers such as vessel owners and operators, and owners and operators of oil and gas and pipeline assets. Stephen's representative experience encompasses the preparation of marine asset finance and re-financing documents, including preferred ship and vessel mortgages, security agreements, commercial loan agreements, UCC-1 financing statements, purchase and sale agreements, commercial and personal guarantees, promissory notes, and conventional and unconventional loan closing packages.
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Details
Location
New Orleans, LA
Years of Experience
22
Expertise Area
Construction Law
Licenses
Louisiana Bar