Mr Jesper Windahl > WSCO Advokatpartnerselskab > Copenhagen, Denmark > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Jesper Windahl
Work Department
Shipping practise group.
Position
Jesper Windahl is head of WSCO’s shipping practice group. He is a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Copenhagen (1996). For many years Jesper Windahl has focussed on the shipping, transport and insurance sectors. He conducts court and arbitration proceedings and has right of appearance before the Danish Supreme Court.
His work particularly includes C/P- and B/L-disputes, liabilities and claims arising from the collision and grounding of vessels, FD&D-disputes, the arrest of vessels, cargo claims and insolvency-related issues in the shipping and transport industry. He regularly attends seminars and conferences abroad, gives lectures and speeches and writes for legal periodicals. He has published the first Danish legal text book on freightforwarders’, hauliers’ and stevedores’ liability insurace.
He has been employed as a part-time teaching assistant and associate professor in property and insolvency law at the University of Copenhagen, the Faculty of Law and has been an associate professor in transport law.
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 is known for its litigation and arbitration work, instructed by Danish and foreign clients to act on contentious matters concerning the arrest of vessels, injunctions and other interim measures in the shipping and transport sector. The group’s transactional work also includes shipbuilding and repair contracts and sale and purchase of ships and registration. Practice head Jesper Windahl is praised as ‘highly skilled, very professional and always works efficiently’.