Alex Kemp
Partner
Alex predominantly advises clients on the legal issues arising from casualty management and crisis response including salvage, wreck removal, groundings, collisions, fires and piracy with a particular interest in container ship casualties and war risk claims. Alex has extensive experience in marine insurance advising insurers, brokers and assureds in relation to H&M, war, kidnap & ransom, increased value, cargo, builder's risks, yacht and ports & terminals insurance policies. Alex is also part of the firm's dedicated yacht team: http://hfwyachts.com/
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Alex predominantly advises clients on the legal issues arising from casualty management and crisis response including salvage, wreck removal, groundings, collisions, fires and piracy with a particular interest in container ship casualties and war risk claims. Alex has extensive experience in marine insurance advising insurers, brokers and assureds in relation to H&M, war, kidnap & ransom, increased value, cargo, builder's risks, yacht and ports & terminals insurance policies. Alex is also part of the firm's dedicated yacht team: http://hfwyachts.com/
Alex
has been involved in a number of reported High Court cases including Osmium
Shipping Corporation v Cargill International SA (The Captain Stefanos) [2012] 2
Lloyd's Rep. 46, Taokas Navigation SA v Solym Carriers Ltd (the Paiwan Wisdom)
[2012] EWHC 1888 (Comm), The Owners of the Ship “Theresa Libra” v The Owners of
the Ship “MSC Pamela” [2013] EWHC 2792 (Admlty), The Owners of the Ship “Stolt
Kestrel” v The Owners of the Ship “Niyazi S” [2014] 2 Lloyd’s Rep. 483, and The
Atlantik Confidence [2016] EWCA 2412 (Admlty).
Alex has spent time in the firm's Dubai office
and has undertaken a secondment to the legal department of an oil major and a
London market insurer.
Alex is an Associate member of the Association
of Average Adjuster. He has been part of the Association of Average Adjusters'
Committee of Management and has was involved in the UK Chamber of Shipping's
working group on general average for the 2016 revisions to the York Antwerp
Rules.
Alex has been named as a next Generation Lawyer
in the Legal 500 UK 2017, 2018 and 2019 and a next Generation Partner in the
Legal 500 UK 2020.

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