E-mail:
nap@psh.com
(tel) 401-861-8258 (fax) 401-861-8210
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 serves as mediator and arbitrator in maritime matters.
EDUCATION
Suffolk University, J.D.
cum laude, 1987
Boston College, B.A.
cum laude, 1984
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Maritime Law Association of the United States
Defense Research Institute
Rhode Island Bar Association
Defense Counsel of Rhode Island
Southern New England School of Law
Adjunct Professor of Admiralty Law
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
“2009 Stimulus Bill: Maritime Administration Authorized to Make Grants”, Partridge Snow & Hahn LLP Take Note E-news, March 2009
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Dartmouth Waterways
Management Commission
Member
Buttonwood Park Zoological Society
Director
BAR MEMBERSHIPS
Massachusetts, 1987
Rhode Island, 1989
U.S. District Court of Massachusetts
U.S. District Court of Rhode Island
U.S. District Court of Connecticut
U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court