Anne Mickey is a Partner in the firm and represents clients before the Maritime Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Defense, and other agencies. Ms. Mickey regularly advises foreign and U.S. companies on contract, corporate, conventional and government guaranteed finance and transactional matters. She also assists clients with contract disputes (private and government), and with issues concerning cabatoge laws, leases, charters, equipment acquisition, and citizenship.
Professional Background
From 1977-1980, Ms. Mickey was an attorney with the Federal Maritime Commission (General Counsel’s Office - Litigation section). In 1980, she entered private practice and was a former partner with two prominent law firms. Ms. Mickey joined Sher & Blackwell in 1991 as one of its founding partners.
Ms. Mickey has represented foreign and domestic companies engaged in, among other things, importing and exporting, shipping (liner, breakbulk, bulk and tanker), drilling, ferry services, amphibious vehicles, terminal operations, dredging, and marine construction. Ms. Mickey has handled closings exceeding $1.5 billion in conventional and government guaranteed loans for vessels and other equipment. She has also been actively involved in the Maritime Security Program, capital construction fund, and cargo preference programs.
Ms. Mickey also assists vessel owners in registering and mortgaging vessels in the Marshall Islands and Vanuatu.
Ms. Mickey has obtained favorable rulings from the Maritime Administration, U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection for several clients and has been actively involved in recent litigation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in cases involving whether vessels have been rebuilt in foreign shipyards and have lost their coastwise trading privileges.
Ms. Mickey is listed in The International Who’s Who of Shipping and Maritime Lawyers 2009 (www.WhosWhoLegal.com).
Practice
Areas
Administrative
Corporate & Transactional
Financing
Government Contracts
Maritime Commerce
Maritime Regulation
Professional
Affiliations/Associations
Member of the District of Columbia and Maryland Bars
U.S. Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Fourth and Federal
Circuits
United States District Court for the District of Columbia and Maryland
Unites States Court of Federal Claims
Maritime Administrative Bar Association (Former President)
Recent Publications/Articles
Co-author, “Understanding the Bid Protest Process” published in Inside the Minds Government Contract Bid Protests, Aspatore 2009
Education
The National Law Center, George Washington University, J.D.
with honors, 1976
Smith College, B.A., 1973
