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Simon Kerr

020 7910 8300 skerr@7kbw.co.uk

Position

Simon is a barrister specialising in commercial law and all aspects of commercial litigation and arbitration, with particular expertise in insurance and reinsurance, shipping, energy and natural resources, professional negligence and general commercial disputes. He has been involved in a large number of high profile commercial cases in the Commercial Court, in the appellate courts and in arbitration.  His work is split evenly between cases in the High Court and those involving arbitration, whether English arbitration, international arbitration (under rules such as ICC or LCIA) or “Bermuda Form” arbitration.

Career

Called 1997; Lincoln’s Inn.

Author of chapters on damages and other remedies in Carver on Charterparties (1^st ed., 2017)

Languages

Fluent French.

Memberships

British Insurance Law Association; London Shipping Law Centre.

Education

Merchant Taylors’ School; Keble College, Oxford (BA Honours 1st Class – Modern Languages);  Lincoln’s Inn (Hardwicke Entrance Scholar, Full CPE Award, Sunley Scholar).