Douglas Bateson > Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP > Piraeus, Greece > Lawyer Profile

Douglas Bateson

+30 210 361 4840 douglas.bateson@penningtonslaw.com

Work Department

Shipping, Marine, trade and energy

Position

Douglas is the head of the firm’s Piraeus office with more than 35 years’ experience in all aspects of wet and dry shipping. A key member of the firm’s emergency response team, Douglas has lived in Greece since 2001.

His considerable experience covers a wide variety of shipping problems ranging from charterparty and international trade disputes, cargo sale and purchase claims, and groundings and collisions to fires and total losses, marine insurance, superyacht work and banking. Douglas is frequently instructed by some of the world’s largest ship owners to handle highly complex problems often spreading across a number of jurisdictions.

Career

Douglas became a partner of Thomas Cooper in 1989 after joining the firm as an articled clerk in 1983.

Memberships

Douglas is admitted both as a solicitor (Law Society of England & Wales) and an attorney at law (Athens Bar Association), and is also a member of the British Hellenic Chamber of Commerce in Athens.