Y&T Lawyers' Ministry of Commerce and Maritime Affairs aims to provide high-quality maritime legal services. Y&T Lawyers actively communicates, exchanges, and learns from judicial bodies, government departments, and industry associations such as the Nanjing Maritime Court, Shanghai Maritime Court, Jiangsu Maritime Safety Administration, and Jiangsu Shipowners' Association. Some of Yiyou's lawyers are graduates of maritime universities and well-known law schools both domestically and internationally. They possess systematic and solid knowledge of maritime law, are familiar with maritime laws in China and other major shipping countries, as well as related international treaties. They can provide clients with litigation and non-litigation legal services in various specialized maritime matters in multiple languages.

Maritime legal affairs include but not limited to:
Cases of disputes over liability for collision damage of ships;
Cases of disputes over liability for water pollution damage;
Cases of disputes over liability for the damage to fishing and aquaculture facilities, and aquaculture products caused by the sailing or working of ships;
Cases of compensation for the loss of life and personal injury in maritime accidents;
General average and particular average;
Disputes over river-ocean-rail combined transport;
Marine salvage;
Cases of disputes over liability for illegal retention or detention of ships, cargoes on ships, ship stores, fuel and spare parts;
Cases of disputes over product quality liability for existing defects of key parts and special-purpose articles of ships provided for ship engineering.
Legal affairs related to maritime trade include but not limited to:
Contractual disputes related to ships (such as ship buying and selling contract, ship building contract, ship operation contract, and ship rental contract);
Contract dispute cases related to port cargoes (such as port cargo storage, custody and warehousing contract, and port cargo pledge supervision contract);
Contract dispute cases related to shipping containers (such as shipping container ware- housing, storage, and custody contract, shipping container mortgage, pledge and other guarantee contracts, and shipping container financing and rental contract);
Contract dispute cases related to ports or quays (such as port operation contract, port or quay rental contract, and port or quay operation management contract);
Contract dispute cases related to crews(such as employment contract or labor contract);
Contract dispute cases related to cargo transportation, passenger and luggage transportation at sea and sea-connected navigable waters;
Cases of disputes over shipping agency contractand freight forwarding contract;
Contract dispute cases related to the supply of ships’ tools, stores and fuel;
Cases of disputes over maritime insurance, and protection and indemnity (P&l) insurance contract.