The Legal 500

Position

Partner specialising in shipping, energy, international trade, insurance and international commercial arbitration, ADR and litigation.

Career

Articled Ince & Co; qualified England 1977, Hong Kong 1986; partner Ince & Co 1983; accredited mediator CEDR, The Academy of Experts, ADR Chambers and ADR Net; joint head of firm’s ADR group. In 2001, established and then managed firm’s first German office in Hamburg presiding over its increase from four to 12 lawyers and then, at the beginning of 2004, returning to practice in London. Publications: co-author ‘Tug, Tow and Pilotage’, ‘The Law and Practice of Marine Insurance and Average’; ‘Bunkers’; ‘Corporate Social Responsibility’ and editor of ‘Classification Societies’ and ‘Maritime Law Handbook’; author of various publications in the field of maritime law and international trade and frequent lecturer on these subjects at home and abroad.

Languages

French, German.

Member

Director of London Shipping Law Centre; LMAA; German Maritime Arbitration Association; Arbitration Panel China Maritime Arbitration Commission (CMAC); Fellow Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; International Bar Association (former chair of Maritime and Transportation Law Committee and of Human Rights Institute’s Committee on Legal Systems, currently co-chair of Corporate Social Responsibility Committee; member Council of International Bunker Industry Association Ltd; Association of Average Adjusters; Freeman City of London; Liveryman Worshipful Company of Solicitors; Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre; Hungarian Chamber of Commerce.

Education

Graduated 1973 LLB Hons Exhib; awarded French Government scholarship for post-graduate law studies at the University of Aix-Marseilles leading to DES; qualified solicitor in England 1977 and Hong Kong 1986.

Leisure

Single seater motor-racing and endurance rallies (Peking to Paris 1997; Argentinian Mille Miglia 2000).

Practice Areas

Arbitration, ADR, mediation; International commercial arbitration; Shipping - marine