About me
I’m an experienced shipping lawyer who helps clients navigate difficult legal issues and meet their goals. I work with shipowners, charterers, traders, insurers, P&I clubs and underwriters.
I specialise in handling both ‘dry’ and ‘wet’ shipping matters such as disputes relating to charterparties, carriage of goods by sea, MOAs, collisions, salvage, general average and marine insurance matters. I also handle international trade matters such as disputes arising out of sale and purchase contracts.
Clients describe me as “extremely hardworking” and “always willing to go the extra mile” and this sums up the way I operate. I work very closely with clients and their teams, familiarising myself with their requirements and challenges so I can offer a highly tailored service suited to their situation.
The breadth and depth of my expertise makes me stand out, giving me the insight I need to analyse a matter from every perspective, ensuing I offer well-rounded guidance to enable success.
My experience
- Acting for shipowners and their P&I club in a high value marine insurance claim before the English High Court and Court of Appeal for the constructive total loss of a vessel.
- Acting for salvors in a high-value Lloyd’s salvage arbitration involving LOF services to a vessel laden with a full cargo of volatile explosives.
- Acting for shipowners and their P&I club in a high-value LMAA arbitration involving a claim for damage to bulk cargo.
- Acting for disponent owners and their P&I club in a complex dispute under a chain of charterparties involving claims for late redelivery of a vessel under a time charter and damages in addition to demurrage under a voyage charter.
- Involved in a high value marine insurance claim heard up to the UK Supreme Court.
- Member of the Law Society of England and Wales, Cyprus Bar Association and Piraeus Bar Association.