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Mr. Peloquin is a member of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group. With over 20 years of experience as a business and civil trial attorney, he concentrates his practice on admiralty and maritime law.
Mr. Peloquin counsels clients in marine and marine-related commercial and corporate transactions involving the “brown water” and “blue water” trades. He provides advice to owners, charterers, insurers and lenders primarily in the areas of acquisitions and sales, affreightment, brokerage, charter parties, construction and dredging, documentation and registration, environmental regulation, finance and foreclosure, management and crewing, service agreements, towage, transportation (ocean, air and inland marine) and other trade-related agreements, and vessel construction. Mr. Peloquin’s litigation practice emphasizes traditional areas of admiralty practice involving allision and collision, arrest and attachment, bankruptcy and creditor’s rights, cargo, casualty and insurance defense, foreclosure, maritime liens, pollution, possesory actions, salvage, and surety claims.
Mr. Peloquin received his B.A., cum laude, from Boston College and his J.D. cum laude from Suffolk University. He is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the Rhode Island Bar Association, and Adjunct Professor of Admiralty Law at Southern New England School of Law. Additionally, he is a member of Dartmouth Waterways Management Commission and a director of Buttonwood Park Zoological Society. Mr. Peloquin is admitted to practice in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and before the U.S. District Courts of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, the U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.