Mr Jesper Windahl > WSCO Advokatpartnerselskab > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile

WSCO Advokatpartnerselskab
FREDERIKSGADE 7
1265 COPENHAGEN
Denmark
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Work Department

Shipping practise group.

Position

Jesper Windahl is head of Windahl Sandroos & Co.’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 20 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.

Memberships

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.

Lawyer Rankings

Denmark > Shipping and transport

WSCO Advokatpartnerselskab‘s team uses its ‘extensive knowledge‘ of arbitration and litigation proceedings to advise on both wet and dry shipping issues. The team takes a ‘realistic and creative‘ approach when advising logistics, insurance, and transport companies. The ‘highly skilledJesper Windahl heads up the practice, and often represents domestic and international clients in disputes before the Maritime and Commercial Court of Copenhagen; he regularly handles claims concerning liability for cargo damage.