Mrs. Otero Valdés has been engaged exclusively in the practice of maritime, admiralty and marine insurance law for over twenty-five (25) years and is experienced in all facets of civil litigation, including, but not limited to, collisions, allisions, groundings, emergency casualty response, maritime attachments and arrests, marine pollution claims under OPA90 and CLC Conventions, defense of maritime death and injury claims, passenger and crew claims, marine casualty investigations, P&I and FDD matters, H&M claims, subrogation claims, claims coverage evaluation, salvage and SCOPIC matters, cargo claims and recoveries, charter party disputes, Marpol and environmental matters, general liability defense, freight forwarders/NVOCC liability claims, and the negotiation and drafting of maritime-related contracts, including marine loan documents, purchase and sale agreements, charter parties, marina contracts, ship vendor contracts, yacht purchase/sale agreements, chartering, and registration of domestic and foreign vessels, shipbuilding contracts, crew agreements, corporate non-compete/non-disclosure agreements and a host of other international commercial transactions and agreements focused in and around the maritime industry. Mrs. Otero Valdés is licensed to practice law in all the District Courts in Florida, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mrs. Otero Valdés has authored numerous published articles and books involving marine insurance, coverage topics, international litigation and arbitration, vessel arrests, casualty contingency planning and is regularly asked to speak at conferences throughout the world on a variety of topics of interest to the maritime industry and is Board Certified in Admiralty and Maritime Law by the Florida Bar since 2007. Mrs. Otero Valdés routinely blogs on a wide variety of topics related to the maritime industry at http://www.michelleoterovaldes.com/news. She can be contacted by email message at mov@chaloslaw.com, via Twitter at MichelleOteroValdés@miamimaritime or via LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/michelleoterovaldes/.