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Paul advises traders, insurers, ship owners, charterers and operators, P&I clubs, oil majors and companies generally. In addition to his commodities and shipping expertise, he has extensive marine and non-marine insurance experience.
Paul handles disputes in England before the High Court and appellate divisions as well as disputes in ICC International Court of Arbitration, London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA), Gafta, FOSFA, FCC and LME arbitration. He has appeared before the courts and arbitrators throughout France. Paul lectures around the world and publishes on issues in the commodities, shipping and insurance fields.
Paul studied law and French Law at University College London, spending a year at the University of Aix-Marseille. He qualified as a solicitor in London in 1997 and as an avocat of the Paris Bar in 2004.
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Experience
- Gunvor Singapore Pte Ltd -v- Xiang Da Marine Pte Ltd [2019] EWHC 2284 (Comm) - successfully maintaining an anti-suit injunction on new vexatious and oppressive grounds
- Gunvor SA -v- CruGas Yemen Ltd [2018] EWHC 2061 (Comm) - judgment confirmed, inter alia, that demurrage time bar provisions in a contract of affreightment were not incorporated into a gasoline sale contract
- Uttam Galva Steels Ltd -v- Gunvor Singapore Pte Ltd [2018] EWHC 1098 (Comm) - disputes under bills of exchange fell within the scope of an arbitration clause in the underlying sale contract
- PHP Tobacco Carib SARL -v- BAT Caribbean SA & Ors [2017] EWCA Civ 1131 – successful defence of an appeal on jurisdiction where the Court of Appeal considered the nature of a jurisdiction agreement
- Obtaining anti-suit injunction for Swiss trader in support of $38 million claim (September 2016)
- SARPD Oil International Ltd -v- Addax Energy SA [2016] EWCA 120 - successfully obtaining security for defendant’s and third party’s costs
- Raetsmarine & Swiss Re -v- Voies Navigables de France [2015] Flaux J. - obtaining declaratory judgment bringing competing French proceedings to an end
- Gunvor Belgium NV -v- KAAI 12 N.V. [2015] EWHC 3150 (Comm) - declaratory English law judgment in support of proceedings against guarantor in Belgium
- Quadra Commodities -v- Ergo Versicherung AG & Ors [2014] - defending insurers against soybean heating and misappropriation claims in two High Court cases
- Addax Energy SA -v-Choil S.A. [2009] EWHC 2472 - successful jurisdictional challenge in a JV trading dispute
- P -v- A and Another [2008] EWHC 1361 (Comm) - successfully defending owners where a laycan nomination in a long term COA was held to be a condition
- ICC International Court of Arbitration Case No. 12460 of 2004 - defence of manufacturers of ship’s engines where issues of French, English and US law arose
- Trygg Hansa -v-Equitas [1998] 2 Lloyd’s Rep 439 - incorporation of terms as between insurance and reinsurance contracts
- Amoco -v-TGTL & Philips Petroleum -v-Enron Corp (1996) Waller J - take or pay gas dispute relating to J Block gas fields in the North Sea
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Affiliations
- Member of the Law Society
- Member of the Paris Bar
- Member of the London Arbitrators Association (LMAA)
- Member of the Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA)
- Member of the Federation of Oils, Seeds and Fats Associations (FOSFA)
- Member of the Association Francaise de Droit Maritime
- Member of the Cercle des Intervenants du Transport
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Languages
- French (fluent)
- Spanish (basic)
Paul Taylor's Expertise
Commodities
