NICOLAS & ASSOCIES is a Paris-based French law firm with a strong focus on maritime law, transport law, insurance and international trade. The firm provides both advisory and litigation services and represents clients in arbitration proceedings as well as before French courts, including in mainland France and French overseas territories.
The firm’s maritime practice covers ship arrests, maritime casualties, carriage of goods, charterparty disputes, marine insurance, pollution, vessel sale matters and yachting-related disputes. Its broader transport and insurance practice also includes logistics, forwarding, multimodal transport, P&I, Hull and Machinery, cargo insurance and industrial risk matters.
NICOLAS & ASSOCIES is led by Christophe Nicolas, a recognised practitioner in transport, insurance, international trade and industrial risk matters. According to the firm’s public profile, Christophe Nicolas previously spent 28 years with Richemont Nicolas & Associés, acts for P&I Clubs, brokers, leading insurers and foreign law firms, and regularly pleads before the Chambre Arbitrale Maritime de Paris, the Chambre Arbitrale Internationale de Paris and the ICC Court of International Arbitration.
The firm is also listed by The Legal 500 in the Paris maritime and transport law category. Legal 500 describes NICOLAS & ASSOCIES as handling maritime-related matters involving transport, insurance, commercial law, international law and industrial risks, with particular know-how in maritime casualties, pollution events, charterparty disputes, ship arrests, insurance matters and vessel acquisition cases.
For the VesselArrested.com network, NICOLAS & ASSOCIES may provide legal assistance in urgent ship arrest matters, maritime claims, casualty response, security negotiations, P&I and insurance-related disputes, charterparty and carriage claims, and representation of shipowners, charterers, insurers, P&I interests, cargo interests and other maritime stakeholders before the competent French courts and arbitral bodies.
Ports and jurisdictions covered
NICOLAS & ASSOCIES has indicated that it may provide maritime legal services in the following ports and locations: Ajaccio, Bastia, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Brest, Calais, Cherbourg, Dieppe, Donges, Dunkerque, Fos-sur-Mer, La Pallice, Lavera, Le Havre, Le Verdon, Marseille, Mayotte Island, Monaco, Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Paris, Rouen, Sète, Saint-Malo and Toulon.
The firm has also indicated that it may assist with ship arrest matters in French overseas territories, including French Guiana, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, La Réunion, Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Contact details
NICOLAS AND ASSOCIES
65 rue d’Anjou, 75008 Paris, France
From 1 September 2026: 51 bis rue de Miromesnil, 75008 Paris, France
Tel.: +33 1 53 77 64 13
Website: nicolas-associes.fr
Email: nicolas-associes@avocatline.fr
Email: christophe.nicolas@avocatline.fr
Email: cnicolas@nicolas-associes.fr
Relevant contacts: Christophe Nicolas, Mathilde Nicolas and Marie Ziegler.