About me
I’m an associate in Hill Dickinson’s Hong Kong Shipping and Dispute Resolution team. My expertise spans advising shipowners, charterers, commodity traders and P&I clubs on a wide range of disputes, including charterparty, bill of lading, and vessel damage claims, as well as commercial and insolvency matters.
My practice covers proceedings before the Hong Kong courts and international arbitrations under HKIAC, LMAA, SIAC, LCIA and ad hoc rules. I take a hands-on, detail-driven approach which means working closely with clients to provide clear, strategic advice and quick turnaround on complex cross-border cases.
Clients describe me as calm under pressure, friendly and easy to work with. I’m drawn to the fast-moving, global nature of the shipping industry and the problem-solving challenges it brings.
When I’m not enjoying travelling with family or discovering new perspectives through language and culture, I immerse myself in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
My experience
- Acting for a Singaporean commodity trading house for enforcement and recovery of an arbitral award in the sum of US$13 million involving successful applications of Mareva injunction and Chabra injunction in the Hong Kong Court.
- Acting for a Japanese financer and shipowners as plaintiffs in a LMAA arbitration involving claims under guarantees of over US$30 million in respect of breach of JOLCO financing agreement and bareboat charterparty.
- Acting for a Turkish buyers in a HKIAC arbitration involving a US$5m claim regarding sale and purchase of a vessel.
- Advising a global commodities trading house headquartered in London on a USD75m claim against one of the largest cryptocurrency financiers in relation to an ISDA financing agreement arising out of geopolitically sensitive Venezuelan oil trades.
- Acting for shipowner as plaintiff in a LMAA arbitration involving a claim of over US$3 million in respect of stevedore and vessel damage by dangerous cargo.