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ØSTBANEGADE 7, 2100 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
Tel:
Work +45 35 25 38 00
Fax:
Fax +45 35 25 38 01
Web:
www.birchwindahl.dk
Email:

Jesper Windahl

Tel:
Work +45 35 25 38 04 (direct)
Email:
Birch Windahl

Work Department

Shipping practise group.

Position

Jesper Windahl is head of Birch Windahl's Shipping practise group. Areas of expertise includes: Insurance law; wet and dry maritime law; FD&D work, charter party and bill of lading disputes; pollution from ships; CMR transport, NSAB 2000, multi-modal transport, customs laws and contract terms and conditions within the transport and logistics industry.

Career

Jesper Windahl has for more than 17 years focused on the shipping, transport and insurance sectors. He conducts court and arbitration proceedings. The work includes, in particular, C/P- and B/L-disputes, liabilities and claims arising from collision and grounding of vessels, FD&D-disputes, arrest of vessel, cargo claims and insolvency-related issues within the shipping and transport industry. He further works extensively with issues on liability within CMR-carriage, multimodal transport and aviation as well as within liability and hull-insurance in the transport sector. He negotiates and drafts contract agreements and standard conditions for transport and logistics operators. He regularly attends seminars and conferences abroad, give lectures and speeches, and write for legal periodicals.

Languages

English, the Scandinavian languages.

Member

Comite Maritime International (CMI). AIDA. AIJA.

Education

Cand.jur. (Master of Laws, LLM) from University of Copenhagen 1996. 1996-2006: Teaching assistant and associate professor in property and insolvency law at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of law. Associate professor in transport law.

Leisure

Art, design, architecture, literature, swimming, travelling.

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