Mme Sarah Hunt > HFW > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
HFW Offices
6TH FLOOR
COURS DE RIVE 13-15
1204 GENEVA
Switzerland
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Mme Sarah Hunt
Work Department
Commodities
Position
Partner
Career
Sarah acts for a range of trading companies, charterers and owners in shipping and international trade disputes. Her work involves petroleum products, crude, gasoil, cement, coal, bitumen, steel and ferrous as well as non-ferrous metals, ethanol and soft commodities including grains, soyabeans, oils and seeds, sugar, coffee and cocoa. Her most high-profile matter was Taurus v SOMO, in which the Supreme Court overturned the Power Curber decision and held that there is no special rule of jurisdiction relating to debts represented by LCs. She has successfully litigated or settled in favour of or to client satisfaction, all Commercial Court claims. Her litigation profile includes freezing orders arising out of various frauds, hedging losses, defaults on sale contracts (failure to perform), off-specification cargo quantum disputes and non-delivery disputes. Impressively, she has also recovered judgment sums awarded against recalcitrant defendants including a significant proportion of costs.
Languages
French, English
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Transport
(Leading individuals)HFW‘s ‘professional and client oriented’ team collaborates with its international network to advise client such as shipowners, charterers, P&I Clubs, banks, governments, and brokers on commercial, regulatory, and litigation matters. The team has extensive knowledge of the dry shipping, admiralty and crisis management markets as well as transactional work. Practice head Michael Buisset specialises in advising clients on dry shipping litigation and arbitration, including charterparties, bills of lading, ship sale and purchase, marine insurance (hull, cargo and P&I), and contracts of affreightment and is often involved in landmark court cases. Sarah Hunt has extensive experience advising trading companies, charterers and owners on complex shipping and international trade disputes. Hunt also heads a team of lawyers which has advised HFW’s industry clients on shipping, trading, insurance and complex trade finance matters involving multi-jurisdictional sanctions arising out of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Georges Racine and William Hold are also key members of the team.