Maritime and Corporate Legal Excellence,
Built on Three Decades
of Absolute Trust

A Firm Defined by Fierce Client Advocacy and Proven Competence

At the heart of Gerli & Co. is a simple philosophy: loyalty, family values, and an uncompromising commitment to protecting our clients' interests. The firm is founded and personally led by Ismael Gerli, LLM, a Panamanian attorney with more than thirty years of unblemished international practice in maritime and corporate law. Over those three decades, the firm has earned a reputation that the Panama Ship Registry's own statistics confirm — placing Gerli & Co. among the top-ranked maritime law firms in the country.

For Ismael Gerli, a client is never a file number. Shipowners, corporate groups, family offices and high-net-worth families come to this firm because they want more than a service provider; they want someone who will treat the protection of their assets with the same seriousness they would apply to defending their own family. That is the standard the entire team is held to: present from A to Z, at every stage, with no excuses. Whether the matter is a Port State Control detention at 3 a.m., an urgent vessel registration before a closing, or a corporate restructuring driven by a change in compliance law, the team mobilises immediately. Our track record is not a marketing promise — it is a documented, decades-long fact.