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HFW Offices
8 Bishopsgate
LONDON
EC2N 4BQ
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Paul Dean
Work Department
Shipping
Position
Partner and Global Head of Shipping
Career
Paul is Global Head of Shipping at HFW managing over 200 specialist shipping lawyers across a worldwide network of 21 offices. Paul specialises in offshore and marine, focusing mainly on charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, rig disputes, collisions, fire and explosion, salvage, general average, groundings, total loss, towage, seismic and limitation.
Paul regularly speaks at and chairs offshore vessel conferences and has been teaching on the BIMCO panel for their “Using SUPPLYTIME” course for over 10 years. Paul is recognised by Lloyd’s List as one of the 100 most influential people in the maritime industry and one of the market’s Top 10 lawyers in 2019 and 2020.
Paul is qualified in England and Wales and is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Transport > Shipping
(Hall of Fame)HFW‘s shipping practice stands out as a leading player in the maritime sector, renowned for its comprehensive expertise across wet and dry, green shipping, and cybersecurity. Under the leadership of global head Paul Dean
, the team excels in handling high-profile casualties, cargo claims, as well as transactional work. Noteworthy practitioners include Andrew Chamberlain, a wet shipping expert, and Jean Koh, who specialises in dry shipping work and has extensive expertise in matters relating to the Asian market. Crisis management experts Claire Womersley and Richard Neylon, alongside maritime casualty specialist Michael Ritter, are pivotal in addressing major incidents. Core contacts for maritime disputes are Paolo Ghirardani and Jim Cashman, while Alex Kemp excels in container ship casualties and war risk claims. Marine insurance matters fall under the advisory portfolio of Jenny Salmon, and Rory Butler is active across both dry and admiralty work. Elinor Dautlich left the firm January 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation
- Dispute resolution > Commodities disputes
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance litigation: for policyholders
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Transport > Travel
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Renewables
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency