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Travel, Cruise & Leisure
Shipping
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Our specialist travel, cruise and leisure lawyers provide multidisciplinary expertise in shipping, aviation, travel law, regulatory compliance, company/commercial matters, dispute resolution, health & safety, crisis management, IT/IP and data protect... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Shipping Yachts Employment, Immigration and Personal Injury Dispute Resolution Corporate EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Insurance & Reinsurance Travel, Cruise & Leisure -
Trade Finance
Finance
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Our finance practice covers the whole spectrum, from trade and asset finance, through to project finance. We are well known for our work in the shipping, offshore, yacht and corporate jet sectors, and frequently handle assets relating to the transpor... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Financial Institutions Energy Shipping Trade Finance -
Fraud and Insolvency
Legal Services
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Our fraud and insolvency group are experienced commercial litigators with a particular focus on dealing with high value, cross border matters where there is an overlap between fraud and insolvency. Our expertise spans a wide range of sectors and ind... Sector/service Joins: RESTRUCTURING HUB Fraud and Insolvency -
Corporate
Legal Services
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Our international corporate team has extensive experience of advising on high value, domestic and cross-border transactions. Our team combines in-depth sector expertise with experience across all corporate disciplines to deliver pragmatic and commerc... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Finance Projects Corporate -
Commercial
Legal Services
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We specialise in advising clients on a wide range of day-to-day commercial matters across our core sectors of focus. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Commercial -
Construction
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Our construction team advises on procurement, risk management and disputes for a wide range of clients, including contractors, owners, consultants and insurers. We have worked on some of the largest and most technically complex projects in the world,... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Shipping
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Our shipping lawyers provide a comprehensive service to the global maritime business community. We have over 200 lawyers and 13 Master Mariners worldwide, specialising in maritime law, reflecting our long involvement in this field. Our maritime lawye... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Ports & Terminals
Legal Services
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We have one of the largest teams specialising in legal matters relating to the acquisition, disposal, development and operation of national and international ports and terminals. Our team of transactional and dispute resolution lawyers has a wealth o... Sector/service Joins: Ports & Terminals -
Employment
Legal Services
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HFW's employment, litigation and counselling practice combines our long-standing, top rated reputation for litigation, with our extensive corporate management experience in running high value, multijurisdictional regulatory, complex commercial and em... Sector/service Joins: Employment -
Finance
Legal Services
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Our expertise covers the whole spectrum, from trade and asset finance, through to project finance. We are well known for our work in the shipping, offshore, yacht and corporate jet sectors, and frequently handle assets relating to the transportation ... Sector/service Joins: Finance -
Commodities
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We act across the spectrum of the international sale of goods, including soft commodities, oil and gas, coal and steel, and non ferrous and precious metals. We advise and represent clients in their related freight business. Our worldwide clients incl... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Aerospace
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HFW has a pre-eminent global specialist aerospace practice, having been at the forefront of legal developments in this sector for over three decades. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Dispute Resolution
Legal Services
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Our principal strength is our experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and alternative forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all of our offices, regularly handling high-value, complex, mu... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Insurance & Reinsurance
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Our insurance & reinsurance practice is recognised internationally as an industry leader. Through our integrated global network of offices, we offer a comprehensive range of dispute resolution, transactional and regulatory legal services to the ... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Trade Sanctions
International Trade Regulation
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HFW's international trade regulation practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to, the impact of regulations mandated by the European Union and World Trade Organization. Our primary objective is to help clients overcome commercial obst... Sector/service Joins: Trade Sanctions -
Government Services
Legal Services
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Our team has wide experience and capability in assisting governments, local authorities, state corporations and international organisations, NGO's and private sector entities in their dealings. Sector/service Joins: Government Services -
Oil and Gas
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Our team of lawyers have expertise that spans the entire oil and gas lifecycle where we support oil majors, independents and service companies at every stage of the process, including upstream advice on exploration and production sharing contracts, ... Sector/service Joins: Oil and Gas -
Digital Trade
Legal Services
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At HFW, we are committed to helping our clients understand and engage with market innovations and key disruptors that have the potential to revolutionise their industries. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Ports & Terminals Commodities Insurance & Reinsurance Shipping International Trade Regulation Digital Trade -
Corporate Reorganisations and Restructurings
Fraud and Insolvency
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We have an international corporate team with extensive experience of advising on high value, domestic and cross-border transactions. Our team draws on the firm's in-depth sector expertise and works closely with clients to acquire, dispose, finance, o... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Corporate Finance Dispute Resolution Restructuring and Insolvency RESTRUCTURING HUB Corporate Reorganisations and Restructurings -
Insolvency Litigation
Fraud and Insolvency
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We provide a full range of restructuring and insolvency services, in both UK domestic and international markets. We have a long tradition of successful involvement for our clients in corporate restructuring and insolvency, acting for banks and other... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure RESTRUCTURING HUB Insolvency Litigation -
Projects
Legal Services
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We specialise in energy and natural resources, and major infrastructure projects, such as ports and terminals. Projects are frequently complex and multi-jurisdictional, and our lawyers regularly work as part of a team with technical and financial adv... Sector/service Joins: Projects -
Logistics
Legal Services
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We have a dedicated, specialist logistics and multimodal transport team that advises clients on how to manage all issues that arise from their logistics operations. Our team provides joined-up transactional, litigation, projects and regulatory s... Sector/service Joins: Logistics -
International Trade Regulation
Legal Services
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HFW's international trade regulation practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to, the impact of regulations mandated by the European Union and World Trade Organization. Our primary objective is to help clients overcome commercial obst... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Space
Aerospace
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Our specialist space team provides advice and legal representation to the space industry, and to its insurers and reinsurers on all matters arising out of product supply, launch, in-orbit and other risks. We understand the usual contracting principle... Sector/service Joins: Space -
EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory
Legal Services
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Our specialist EU, competition and regulatory practice covers a broad spectrum of EU/national antitrust and merger control, State aid, EU litigation, actions for damages, and EU and regulatory law matters. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Dispute Resolution EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Offshore Wind
Construction
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Our specialist construction team has market leading expertise in the offshore wind sector. Sector/service Joins: Construction Offshore Wind -
Gafta
Commodities
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Lawyers to the international grains industry. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Gafta -
Energy
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Our team of transactional and dispute resolution lawyers have expertise at every stage of the energy chain, from exploration and production, storage and transportation, LNG, refining, trading and sale of oil and gas, to electricity generation, energy... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Corporate Finance Projects Restructuring and Insolvency Commercial International Tax International Trade Regulation Employment, Immigration and Personal Injury Energy -
Public Procurement
International Trade Regulation
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HFW's international trade regulation practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to, the impact of regulations mandated by the European Union and World Trade Organization. Our primary objective is to help clients overcome commercial obst... Sector/service Joins: Public Procurement -
Disputes Funding and Financing
Dispute Resolution
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How best to finance litigation and arbitration is a major consideration for clients when deciding whether to bring an action or resist a claim, no matter the size of the organisation, or merits of the claim. Sector/service Joins: Disputes Funding and Financing -
Admiralty and Crisis Management
Shipping
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HFW's Admiralty and Crisis Management Group, serviced by over 30 lawyers and master mariners, is the largest specialist marine casualty practice in the world. Our team has a physical presence in nine countries through offices in Europe, the Middle Ea... Sector/service Joins: Admiralty and Crisis Management -
Fraud & Asset Recovery
Dispute Resolution
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Our principal strength is our experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and alternative forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all of our offices, regularly handling high-value, complex, m... Sector/service Joins: Fraud & Asset Recovery -
Corporate Litigation
Dispute Resolution
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Our principal strength is our experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and alternative forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all of our offices, regularly handling high-value, complex, m... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Litigation -
Commercial Litigation
Dispute Resolution
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Our principal strength is our experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and alternative forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all of our offices, regularly handling high-value, complex, m... Sector/service Joins: Commercial Litigation -
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Dispute Resolution
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Our principal strength is our experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and alternative forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all of our offices, regularly handling high-value, complex, mu... Sector/service Joins: Alternative Dispute Resolution -
Data Protection
Legal Services
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HFW's Data Protection practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to regulations concerning Data Protection. Sector/service Joins: Data Protection -
Financial Institutions
Legal Services
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Our banking and finance practice has developed to encompass all manner of domestic and international banks, and other financial institutions. Our experience ranges from infrastructure and project finance, ship and aviation finance and leasing, to Isl... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Financial Services Regulation Commodities Financial Institutions -
Mining
Legal Services
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We have a long association with the international mining sector, and our mining lawyers provide advice and support on the full range of issues our clients face in this sector, including mergers and acquisitions, projects, construction and development... Sector/service Joins: Mining -
Marine Insurance
Shipping
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With one of the longest established and largest marine practices in the world, our team has a specialist understanding of the legal principles relating to marine insurance and a sound commercial understanding of the marketplace. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Marine Insurance -
Capital Markets (Equity)
Corporate
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We have an international corporate team with extensive experience of advising on equity capital market transactions, including IPOs rights issues, open offers and placings on both the main market and AIM. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Capital Markets (Equity) -
International Arbitration
Dispute Resolution
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Our principal strength is our experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and alternative forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all of our offices, regularly handling high-value, complex, m... Sector/service Joins: International Arbitration -
Financial Services Regulation
Legal Services
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Cyber Security
Legal Services
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Our cross-jurisdictional expertise in maritime risk, crisis management, insurance and regulation means that HFW is ideally placed to assist with any cyber-related query or incident. We have a dedicated Cyber Team, which draws on the extensive skills ... Sector/service Joins: Cyber Security -
Yachts
Shipping
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Our market leading yacht practice draws together a team of expert international lawyers who have in-depth technical and commercial knowledge of this specialist sector. Our clients come from across the yachting industry and, amongst others, include ow... Sector/service Joins: Yachts -
Islamic Finance
Finance
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Our finance practice covers the whole spectrum, from trade and asset finance, through to project finance. We are well known for our work in the shipping, offshore, yacht and corporate jet sectors, and frequently handle assets relating to the transpor... Sector/service Joins: Financial Institutions Shipping Insurance & Reinsurance Islamic Finance -
Start-up commodity trading company service
Commodities
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With more than 100 years of experience and wide-ranging relationships in international commerce, we understand the demands of setting up and operating new trading businesses. Sector/service Joins: Start-up commodity trading company service -
State Aid
EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory
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We have successfully represented corporations and governments in several landmark cases and high-profle State aid investigations before the European Commission and the European courts and in international arbitrations. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory State Aid -
Merger Control
EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory
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We deal with a range of matters for merging parties or third parties in merger control proceedings, before the European Commission and national competition authorities, including obtaining relevant clearances. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Merger Control -
EU Litigation
EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory
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All of our lawyers have extensive experience of contentious and litigious competition, State aid, public procurement and general EU law matters. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory EU Litigation -
Compliance
EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory
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We regularly carry out competition compliance audits, prepare the relevant compliance policy manuals, deliver specific "mock" dawn raids training, and train management and sales staff in accordance with our clients' requirements. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Compliance -
Antitrust
EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory
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Our specialist team is frequently asked to advise on matters in the following sectors: maritime and air transport, commodities, insurance and reinsurance, energy, mining, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, logistics, food and drink, financial services/bank... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Antitrust -
Customs
International Trade Regulation
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HFW's international trade regulation practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to, the impact of regulations mandated by the European Union and World Trade Organization. Our primary objective is to help clients overcome commercial obst... Sector/service Joins: Customs -
Capital Markets (Debt)
Corporate
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We have an international corporate team with extensive experience of advising on high value, domestic and cross-border transactions. Our team draws on the firm's in-depth sector expertise and works closely with clients to acquire, dispose, finance, o... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Capital Markets (Debt) -
M&A (Public and Private)
Corporate
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Our team has substantial experience advising buyers, sellers, and funders on all aspects of acquiring and disposing of companies and assets and bidders, targets and financial advisers on both recommended and hostile bids (whether by way of takeover o... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Insurance & Reinsurance Financial Institutions Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure M&A (Public and Private) -
Asset Finance
Finance
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Our finance practice covers the whole spectrum, from trade and asset finance, through to project finance. We are market leaders in the shipping, offshore, yacht and corporate jet sectors, and frequently handle assets relating to the transportation in... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Shipping Yachts Asset Finance -
Project and Infrastructure Finance
Finance
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Our finance practice covers the whole spectrum, from trade and asset finance, through to project finance. We are well known for our work in the shipping, offshore, yacht and corporate jet sectors, and frequently handle assets relating to the transpor... Sector/service Joins: Ports & Terminals Energy Construction Financial Institutions Shipping Project and Infrastructure Finance -
Anti-bribery and Anti-corruption
International Trade Regulation
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HFW's international trade regulation practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to, the impact of regulations mandated by the European Union and World Trade Organization. Our primary objective is to help clients overcome commercial obst... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Anti-bribery and Anti-corruption -
Regulated Markets
Dispute Resolution
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Our principal strength is our experience and expertise in international litigation, arbitration and alternative forms of dispute resolution. We have specialist dispute resolution teams in all of our offices, regularly handling high-value, complex, mu... Sector/service Joins: Regulated Markets -
Insolvency Litigation
Dispute Resolution
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Derivatives
Finance
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Our specialist team advises clients trading commodity derivatives, both over-the-counter and exchange-traded. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Financial Institutions Derivatives -
Employment
Employment, Immigration and Personal Injury
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Our lawyers have considerable experience advising on all aspects of employment law issues. We handle litigation both in the context of employment and social security law. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Ports & Terminals Mining Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Employment -
Commodity Trading
Finance
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We have market leading expertise in advising clients looking to establish commodities trading desks and in providing ongoing assistance and advice on trading issues as they arise. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Financial Institutions Energy Mining Commodity Trading -
TMT
Commercial
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We specialise in advising clients on a wide range of day to day commercial matters across our core sectors. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Ports & Terminals Mining Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure TMT -
Personal Injury
Employment, Immigration and Personal Injury
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Our personal injury team provides advice across all of the firm's sectors of focus and works alongside our casualty and emergency response team to provide unrivalled experience in dealing with accidents in core sectors including energy, transport, po... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Energy Ports & Terminals Mining Shipping Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Personal Injury -
Joint Ventures and Strategic Partnerships
Corporate
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We have an international corporate team with extensive experience of advising on high value, domestic and cross-border transactions. Our team draws on the firm's in-depth sector expertise and works closely with clients to acquire, dispose, finance, o... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Mining Logistics Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Travel, Cruise & Leisure Yachts Joint Ventures and Strategic Partnerships -
Corporate Reorganisations and Restructurings
Corporate
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We have an international corporate team with extensive experience of advising on high value, domestic and cross-border transactions. Our team draws on the firm's in-depth sector expertise and works closely with clients to acquire, dispose, finance, o... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Reorganisations and Restructurings -
Investment Funds
Finance
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Our international team advises clients on a variety of investment funds and asset classes. We understand and have experience of dealing with investment structures and regulation across a range of jurisdictions. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Corporate Finance Insurance/Reinsurance Commercial Projects Investment Funds -
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Commercial
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We specialise in advising clients on a wide range of day to day commercial matters across our core sectors. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure IP -
Commercial Contracts
Commercial
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We specialise in advising clients on a wide range of day to day commercial matters across our core sectors. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Financial Institutions Insurance & Reinsurance Logistics Mining Ports & Terminals Shipping Space Yachts Travel, Cruise & Leisure Commercial Contracts -
Trade Compliance
International Trade Regulation
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HFW's international trade regulation practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to, the impact of regulations mandated by the European Union and World Trade Organization. Our primary objective is to help clients overcome commercial obst... Sector/service Joins: Trade Compliance -
WTO
International Trade Regulation
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HFW's international trade regulation practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to, the impact of regulations mandated by the European Union and World Trade Organization. Our primary objective is to help clients overcome commercial obst... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Mining Aerospace Shipping WTO -
Anti-dumping
International Trade Regulation
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HFW's international trade regulation practice advises clients on, and resolves issues related to, the impact of regulations mandated by the European Union and World Trade Organization. Our primary objective is to help clients overcome commercial obst... Sector/service Joins: Anti-dumping -
Capital Markets (Debt)
Finance
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Our People
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Fernando Albino
Partners
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Fernando is a Partner in the firm's São Paulo office. Fernando has worked on most aspects of aviation law, with a particular focus on complex multi-jurisdictional liability claims arising in major aviation accidents. He is a native Portuguese speaker... Sector/service Joins: -
Neil Chauhan
Associates
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Marcus Price
Associates
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Selma Agopian
Associates
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Selma is an associate in HFW’s aerospace team in Dubai and specialises in asset financing. She advises airlines, global financial institutions and lessors in respect of the financing, leasing and sale and purchase of aircraft. Sector/service Joins: -
Alastair Forward
Associates
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Alastair is a dispute resolution lawyer focusing on energy, resources and competition law matters. He has experience representing clients in a diverse range of complex and high-value litigation, as well as arbitrations and expert determinations with... Sector/service Joins: -
Francisco Gross
Associates
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Francisco specialises in international trade and maritime law, including commercial transactions, insurance and reinsurance and dispute resolution. Sector/service Joins: -
Derek Bayley
Associates
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Derek joined the dispute resolution team in Dubai in 2017 after training at a magic circle firm in London. Sector/service Joins: -
Samer Al Janabi
Associates
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Samer is an energy and resources lawyer who has been involved in various mining and oil & gas projects, within Australia and internationally. Sector/service Joins: -
Ben Williams
Associates
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Ben specialises in commercial and regulatory law with a particular emphasis on electricity and competition law. Ben has an extensive background in electricity market design, law mathematics and statistics and economics – this unique blend of experien... Sector/service Joins: -
Irene Tse
Associates
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Irene joined Holman Fenwick Willan in 2013 and is an Associate in our corporate, project and finance Department. Irene has considerable experience in corporate and finance transactions. She has handled commercial transactions relating to ship finance... Sector/service Joins: -
Nick Moon
Associates
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Nick specialises in international dispute resolution and advisory work, focusing primarily on commodities, banking and dry shipping matters. He has experience acting for and advising traders, producers, investment banks and P&I Clubs on sale and purc... Sector/service Joins: -
Kirsten James
Associates
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Kirsten is involved with complex cross-border and reinsurance disputes, arising from corporate restructuring, statutory assignments, policy interpretation and product/public liability. She has advised on coverage issues, double insurance and restitut... Sector/service Joins: -
Julian Bayford
Associates
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Julian is an Associate in the Melbourne office specializing in corporate and commercial law, including M&A, restructures and insolvency, joint ventures, and general corporate and commercial law issues. Sector/service Joins: -
Amira Shaat
Associates
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Rachel Turner
Associates
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Rachel specialises in commercial dispute resolution with a focus on commodities, derivatives and international trade. Rachel acts for trading houses, shipping companies, producers and banks in English court proceedings and international arbitration a... Sector/service Joins: -
Giselle Deiró
Consultants
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Giselle is an Legal Consultant in our São Paulo office. Sector/service Joins: -
Josh Clarke
Special Counsel
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With nearly 20 years practice in Asia and Australia, Josh has broad experience in complex tendering exercises, urban regeneration, cross-border investment, real estate development, natural resources and leveraged, project, structured-commodity and ex... Sector/service Joins: -
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Eviaty Jenie
Senior Associates
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Evie is a Senior Associate based in our Singapore office. Sector/service Joins: Commercial Corporate Energy -
Michael Nghiem
Knowledge Management Team
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Michael has worked in the eDisclosure industry for over ten years managing a multitude of different eDisclosure projects across industries including insurance, construction, automotive and pharmaceuticals. He is a Relativity Certified Expert and has ... Sector/service Joins: -
John Rollason
Legal Directors
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John advises clients doing international trade, acting in particular for producers, traders and banks in soft commodities and oil trading. Sector/service Joins: -
Salma Achour Khouaja
Senior Associates
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Salma's practice focuses on insurance litigation, including subrogation/recovery claims, defence work, coverage disputes, civil and commercial litigation, and shipping disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
Neil Adams
Partners
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Neil advises on all aspects of employment counselling and complex litigation for clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, commodities and technology. He has significant experience of advising on both individual and team moves,... Sector/service Joins: -
Benjamin Adamson
Associates
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Ben is an Associate in our Perth office and specialises in the area of dispute resolution in the shipping and construction sectors. Ben has dual qualifications in engineering and law. Prior to qualifying as a lawyer, Ben spent 10 years as a naval ar... Sector/service Joins: -
Tunde Adesokan
Senior Associates
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Tunde is a dual-qualified seven-year Senior Associate (England & Wales and Nigeria). He advises companies, banks, ship owners, insurance companies and other institutions in the shipping, energy, and commodities sectors, as well as other sectors in w... Sector/service Joins: -
Yaman Al Hawamdeh
Partners
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Yaman is a Partner in HFW's office in Dubai. He qualified in 2002, and built up his regional practise and local litigation experience through working with top local firms in Jordan and the UAE. He is fluent in Arabic and English, and is registered as... Sector/service Joins: -
Khalid Al Saadoun
Other
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Khalid has more than three years of experience working as an associate in Saudi Arabia. He has advised the governmental sector on various legal matters and provide legal advice in connection with applicable Saudi laws and regulations in a wide range... Sector/service Joins: -
Rami Al Tal
Senior Associates
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Rami has been admitted to the Jordanian Bar Association since 2008 and previously practised with a reputable Jordanian law firm working primarily for the litigation department. He has been handling all types of litigation including matters involving ... Sector/service Joins: -
Anas Al Tarawneh
Senior Associates
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Anas specialises in commercial litigation and also handles construction disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
Virginie Alberto
Associates
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Virginie is an associate qualified in France and is a member of the Paris and Brussels bars. Graduated in European law and in international trade, Virginie's practice focuses on transactional, litigation and regulatory work. She advises clients on t... Sector/service Joins: -
Shareefa Ali Abbas Bomnah
Associates
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Shareefa is a highly experienced bilingual (Arabic and English) court advocate based in Kuwait. Sector/service Joins: -
Mohammed Alkhliwi
Partners
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Mohammed is a Partner in the HFW Riyadh office and his practice focuses on corporate and commercial matters and local litigation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is experienced in drafting contracts and handling administrative proceedings regarding... Sector/service Joins: -
Ruth Allan De Maldonado
Knowledge Management Team
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Ruth is a member of the knowledge management team at HFW with a particular focus on shipping. She focuses on the provision of knowhow support to the shipping group and its clients, as well as on firmwide KM and legal training projects. Sector/service Joins: -
Amulya Appalaraju
Associates
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Amulya is an associate in the aerospace team in Dubai. Sector/service Joins: -
Pauline Arroyo
Partners
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Pauline specialises in insurance law, civil liability, customs law and environmental litigation. Sector/service Joins: -
Paul Aston
Partners
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Paul acts for clients in the maritime, offshore and commodity sectors (mainly coal, iron, steel, oil and gas). He specialises in all aspects of shipping, transport and insurance, down, midstream oil and gas transactions, ship building and repair disp... Sector/service Joins: -
Ben Atkinson
Legal Directors
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Ben has specialised in insurance and reinsurance since 2009. In that time, he has acted for (re)insurers, brokers and policyholders in relation to disputes arising out of a wide range of lines of business including onshore and offshore energy, mining... Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Bandurka
Partners
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Andrew Bandurka FCIArb is a very experienced lawyer in our insurance/reinsurance department in London. He acts regularly in large, complex commercial claims with an international flavour. These include professional indemnity, products liability, indu... Sector/service Joins: -
Simon Banner
Associates
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Simon specialises in international commercial dispute resolution, focussing on the insurance and reinsurance sector. He advises on major insurance/reinsurance disputes, usually complex, cross-border and high-value, particularly in relation to energy,... Sector/service Joins: -
John Barlow
Partners
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John advises insurers and reinsurers of Financial Institutions in connection with their fidelity, computer crime, D&O, PI/Civil Liability and cyber liability programmes, and on claims that arise under these products. John has handled and settled many... Sector/service Joins: -
Kristen Barratt
Special Counsel
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Kristen has over 20 years' experience practicing in workplace relations as an advocate, solicitor and in-house specialist. Kristen has also worked as an in-house workplace relations specialist for the largest division of a publicly listed building co... Sector/service Joins: -
Olivier Bazin
Partners
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Olivier leads the Restructuring and Finance team in Geneva. With a particular focus on commodities trading and shipping, he regularly advises trading houses, corporates and financial institutions on their bilateral, club and syndicated financings (tr... Sector/service Joins: -
Sammy Beedan
Associates
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Sammy’s practice is focused on dispute resolution and crisis management in the aviation sector. Sector/service Joins: -
Edward Beeley
Associates
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Edward is an Associate in the energy and resources group of HFW's Hong Kong office where he acts for commodity houses, shipowners and charterers. Sector/service Joins: -
Michael Bekkali
Associates
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Michael specialises in transportation law, in particular shipping law. He deals with international commercial disputes and with complex cross-border issues, such as conflicts of law and jurisdiction as well as enforcement of foreign judgments and arb... Sector/service Joins: -
Winston Bell-Gam
Legal Directors
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Winston is a legal director in HFW's Projects and Project Finance group. His practice assists commercial banks, developers, sponsors, investment managers, development finance institutions, multilateral lending agencies, export credit agencies and gov... Sector/service Joins: -
Vincent Benezech
Partners
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Vincent is a commercial litigator, with a particular focus on commodities, shipping and more general international litigation and arbitration. He regularly acts before French courts and various arbitral institutions, and advises on international enfo... Sector/service Joins: -
Gudmund Bernitz
Partners
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Gudmund is a finance lawyer with specialist experience in shipping, offshore and export financings. He acts for a range of finance providers and borrowers/sponsors on a variety of matters including new financings, leasing transactions, restructurings... Sector/service Joins: -
Perrine Bertrand
Senior Associates
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Perrine joined HFW in 2012 after having worked in another international law firm in Paris and London. Perrine focuses on contentious civil matters in various fields (construction, energy - nuclear industry, hydroelectric energy, photovoltaic energy -... Sector/service Joins: -
Yasmin Bhatti
Senior Associates
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Yasmin advises and represents clients on a wide range of legal issues relating to the aviation sector, including commercial, regulatory, finance and passenger rights issues. She pleads regularly before the commercial and civil courts in Belgium. ... Sector/service Joins: -
Christopher Birks
Associates
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Chris is an Associate in the Aerospace team based in London, having qualified in 2018. His practice covers a broad range of aviation-related work, both contentious and non-contentious. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Christopher Birks
Associates
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Chris is an Associate in the Aerospace team based in London, having qualified in 2018. His practice covers a broad range of aviation-related work, both contentious and non-contentious. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Archie Bishop
Consultants
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Archie is a Solicitor both in England and Hong Kong, an Examiner in Admiralty and between 1988 and 2000 Senior Partner of the firm. He is now a Consultant. Sector/service Joins: -
Constantinos Bitounis
Senior Associates
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Constantinos Bitounis joined HFW in April 2019 as a Senior Associate in the litigation team of the firm's Piraeus office. He has extensive experience in handling a wide range of shipping disputes, both Dry and Admiralty, with a keen commercially min... Sector/service Joins: -
Simon Blows
Consultants
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Simon acts in complex commercial litigation cases and international arbitrations, and advises on contract wordings. His clients are engaged world-wide in oil and gas, the construction and design of ships, the offshore industry, and the transportation... Sector/service Joins: -
Matthew Blycha
Partners
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Matthew advises on the development, construction and operation of resource projects. He has worked on large-scale infrastructure projects and project finance transactions in industries including power, mining, rail and oil and gas across Asia, Austr... Sector/service Joins: -
Richard Booth
Partners
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Richard specialises in construction and engineering matters, both in the UK and internationally. Sector/service Joins: -
Leigh Borrello
Partners
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Leigh is an asset finance and leasing partner working from our Sydney office and also spends time in our Singapore office. He has nearly 21 years experience, including over 16 years being based in Asia. He has particular skills in aircraft and equip... Sector/service Joins: -
Alix Bosson
Associates
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Alix regularly acts in commercial and corporate matters. Alix has experience with corporate matters and commercial law disputes as well as in debt collection and bankruptcy proceedings, labour law and white-collar crime, in both judiciary and consult... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Joseph Botham
Senior Associates
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Joseph is a corporate and commercial Associate in our London office. Sector/service Joins: -
Steve Bowler
Senior Associates
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Steve specialises in resolving employment and workplace issues including redundancy, workplace disputes, contract and policy review and OHS obligations. Steve also advises clients in relation to discrimination and workplace investigations. Steve is... Sector/service Joins: -
Nick Braganza
Partners
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Guillaume Brajeux
Partners
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Guillaume specialises in shipping, focussing mainly on dispute resolution arising from charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, collisions, fire and explosion, salvage, general average, groundings, total loss, towage, offshore and limitation. Sector/service Joins: -
Emilie Brammer
Associates
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Emilie is an associate in HFW's London office, specialising in international commercial dispute resolution, with a particular focus on shipping, offshore and logistics disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
Ami Brett
Senior Associates
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Ami specialises in aviation and shipping finance, advising banks, owners and operators in the financing and leasing of aircraft and aircraft engines, corporate jets and ships. Sector/service Joins: -
Hazel Brewer
Partners
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Hazel specialises in shipping, offshore, marine insurance and international trade matters. Hazel’s offshore practice includes contract advisory work and handling contentious matters arising under contracts for rigs, drilling units; accommodation vess... Sector/service Joins: -
Erwan Briant
Associates
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Erwan specialises in transportation law, in particular shipping law. He assists and represents carriers, shipowners, freight forwarders and charterers in their various legal issues, ranging from legal advices to litigation. Sector/service Joins: -
David Brotherton
Partners
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David has over 20 years’ experience advising financiers, lessors and operators on aviation, shipping and offshore and equipment finance and leasing transactions. David has particular experience in debt finance, operating lease, sale and lease back an... Sector/service Joins: -
James Brown
Partners
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Jim has an active trial and appellate practice focused on maritime collision, personal injury, and offshore energy matters. He also handles marine and energy administrative proceedings before state and federal regulatory bodies. Sector/service Joins: -
Rick Brown
Partners
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Rick is Co-Head of the Fraud and Insolvency team. Rick specialises in complex, high value cross-border fraud and insolvency matters, including those which involve claims for breach of contract, fraud and/or breach of fiduciary duties and asset tracin... Sector/service Joins: -
Ed Brown-Humes
Associates
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Ed is an associate in the firm's London office, undertaking a broad mix of commercial litigation, international arbitration, and investment treaty arbitration. He has been involved in arbitrations under a number of the common institutional rules incl... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Jonathan Bruce
Partners
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Jonathan specialises in marine and energy/property insurance and reinsurance, and shipping. He acts mainly for insurers, reinsurers, brokers, energy companies, shipowners, insureds, and any others involved in the insurance chain. His practice is glob... Sector/service Joins: -
Ben Buckhurst
Special Counsel
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Ben handles dust, disease, maritime worker's compensation, and common law injury matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Sally Buckley
Senior Associates
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Sally specialises in shipping dispute resolution and her practice encompasses a broad range of contractual and casualty matters. She is experienced in handling charterparty, bill of lading, shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase, bunker and cargo disp... Sector/service Joins: -
Emma Bud
Associates
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Emma works mainly in the commodities sector. She has assisted in a range of transactional and contentious matters, including joint venture disputes, multi-million dollar asset financings, and a variety of insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings. She ha... Sector/service Joins: -
Michael Buffham
Senior Associates
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Mike has expertise in commodities, international commercial dispute resolution and corporate and financial services advisory work. Mike's commodities practice covers both dispute resolution and advisory and transactional work, advising and assisting ... Sector/service Joins: -
Michael Buisset
Partners
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Michael has extensive experience advising clients in international commercial transactions, subject to English, French and Swiss law or international conventions. Michael joined the firm in 2007 and was based in HFW's Singapore office for about 7 ye... Sector/service Joins: -
Donya Burguet
Associates
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Specialised in dispute resolution, Donya mostly represents clients in the energy, insurance and transportation sectors in multi-jurisdictional contentious matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Ben Bury
Partners
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Ben is a specialist construction lawyer with over 15 years' experience, advising clients in relation to disputes arising out of complex and high value construction projects. Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Rory Butler
Partners
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Rory specialises in shipping, including dispute resolution arising from charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, fire and explosion, piracy, collisions, groundings, general average, salvage, limitation and total loss. His expertise encompasses ... Sector/service Joins: -
Joanne Button
Associates
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Joanne specialises in construction and engineering law, both in the UK and internationally. She has experience of contract review, negotiation, dispute avoidance and dispute resolution, including adjudication, arbitration, litigation and mediation. Sector/service Joins: -
Emilie Caleix
Associates
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Emilie specialises in dispute resolution, with a focus on insurance, civil liability and industrial risks. Sector/service Joins: -
Aileen Camacho
Partners
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Aileen is one of the Partners in the Aerospace practice specialising in Latin American claims. She has been involved in multiple high profile claims arising out of major air accidents that have occurred over the past two decades within the LATAM regi... Sector/service Joins: -
Noel Campbell
Partners
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Noel is Co-Head of the Fraud and Insolvency team. Noel specialises in commercial litigation with an emphasis on financial litigation, fraud and asset recovery, insolvency, company law matters and trusts. He has much experience of handling matters in ... Sector/service Joins: -
Courtney Campion
Associates
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Courtney is an associate in the Houston office and a member of the firm's energy and resources practice group.Courtney has a background in physics and master's in engineering which provides her the tools needed to go beyond the legal surface of the m... Sector/service Joins: -
Fernando Cano Lasa
Partners
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Fernando is an experienced transactional attorney. His practice focuses on both domestic and international corporate transactions, energy operations, commercial agreements and ventures (including specialized procurement) and compliance with respect ... Sector/service Joins: -
Jamie Cao
Associates
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Jamie is an associate in the Shanghai office. Sector/service Joins: -
Jean Cao
Associates
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Jean specialises in shipping and insurance law. Since joining HFW in 2009, she has also been actively involved in finance and commercial matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Christopher Cardona
Partners
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Christopher is head of the insurance and reinsurance global group. He specialises in high-value international dispute resolution in the insurance and reinsurance sector. He is particularly well known for his extensive work in the Latin American marke... Sector/service Joins: -
Philip Carney
Legal Directors
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Philip mostly handles dry shipping issues. He is dual-qualified as a solicitor in England and as an abogado of the Barcelona Bar. He speaks Spanish and French. Sector/service Joins: -
Samantha Cash
Associates
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Samantha is an associate in HFW's London office. She specialises in international commercial dispute resolution, with a particular focus on international trade and commodities. Sector/service Joins: -
Jim Cashman
Partners
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Jim deals with all aspects of shipping litigation, including both P&I and FD&D issues, marine insurance and coverage disputes and other shipping-related commercial disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
David Chalcraft
Senior Associates
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David is a commercial litigator, specialising in complex disputes usually involving elements of international civil fraud and insolvency. He also has significant experience in offshore trust and contentious insolvency litigation in various Caribbean... Sector/service Joins: -
Olivier Challine
Senior Associates
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Olivier specialises in structured finance, asset finance and project finance. Olivier is implicated on various domestic and cross-border ship finance transactions and notably ECA backed financings and French tax leases. He also has experience in proj... Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Chamberlain
Partners
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Andrew is a former Royal Navy officer and specialises in "wet" shipping cases, including salvage (acting for salvors, as well owners and their underwriters), collisions, fire and explosion, total loss and wreck removal. He also advises on both civil ... Sector/service Joins: -
Christopher Chan
Partners
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Christopher specialises in all aspects of marine litigation and arbitration, commercial litigation and international trade disputes. He is renowned throughout South East Asia for his admiralty capability and his practice covers all aspects of shippin... Sector/service Joins: -
Whitney Chan
Associates
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Whitney is an Associate in the Aerospace team in Hong Kong. She qualified in Hong Kong in 2016 and has experience in assisting airlines, lessors and financial institutions in a variety of commercial aviation matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Gordon Chan
Associates
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Gordon joined HFW as a Trainee Solicitor in September 2017. He recently completed his training contract and is now qualified into the Construction Group. Gordon has completed training in various HFW industry groups and practices, including Constructi... Sector/service Joins: -
Jennifer Chan
Senior Associates
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Jennifer works in Holman Fenwick Willan's Shipping group where she advises ferry companies and their P&I Clubs mainly on personal injury cases, death inquests, criminal prosecutions, fatal accidents and cargo claims. Sector/service Joins: -
Erica Chan
Of Counsel
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Erica read law at the City University of Hong Kong and graduated in 2004 with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours degree. After completing the Postgraduate Certificate in Laws at the City University of Hong Kong in 2005, she studied a Master of Laws (Ban... Sector/service Joins: -
Jean-Baptiste Charles
Partners
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Jean-Baptiste specialises in commercial litigation and transport law, with specific expertise in aviation liability. Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Charlier
Partners
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Andrew Charlier is an experienced transactional lawyer specialising in yachts and superyachts, business aviation and general business and finance. He is a qualified English solicitor. Sector/service Joins: -
Neil Chauhan
Associates
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Neil is a commercial litigator who specialises in complex cross-border litigation, including matters which involve claims for breach of contract, fraud and/or breach of fiduciary duties and asset tracing. His focus is on fraud and insolvency litigat... Sector/service Joins: -
Nicole Cheetham
Associates
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Nicole is an associate in our London office. Sector/service Joins: -
Lucy Chen
Senior Associates
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Lucy has 11 years experience in shipping law including bills of lading, marine insurance, charterparties (time charter, voyage charter, bareboat charter and COAs etc), fleet operation contracts, pool agreement, ship sale and purchase transactions, sh... Sector/service Joins: -
Michelle Cheng
Associates
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Michelle joined HFW as a Trainee Solicitor in September 2017. She recently completed her training contract and is now qualified in the Aviation Finance team in Hong Kong. Sector/service Joins: -
Jenny Chester
Senior Managers
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Jenny specialises in salvage, collision, pollution and maritime casualty-related claims. She speaks Mandarin and Shanghainese. Sector/service Joins: -
Wing Cheung
Partners
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Wing assists clients in relation to a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, including initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He advises clients on legal and regulatory issues arising under the Hong Kong listing rules and tak... Sector/service Joins: -
Patrick Cheung
Partners
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Patrick has extensive experience in our non-contentious practice, covering a wide spectrum with special emphasis on the relevant industry sectors including shipping (sale and purchase, registration and shipbuilding), finance (shipping, aviation, othe... Sector/service Joins: -
Ivan Chia
Partners
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Ivan is a corporate and commercial lawyer with a focus on international energy and infrastructure projects. He is dual-qualified in Singapore and UK. Sector/service Joins: Energy Corporate -
Lorraine-Chiu
Associates
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Lorraine is an Associate in the Aerospace team in Hong Kong. She qualified in Hong Kong in 2017 and has experience in advising financial institutions, financial lessors, aircraft owners and airlines in cross-border transactions involving commercial a... Sector/service Joins: -
Chris Cho
Associates
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Chris joined the construction team in January 2014. He has experience working on construction disputes both in Hong Kong and overseas. Sector/service Joins: -
Chloe Chow
Associates
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Chloe is a qualified solicitor in Hong Kong. She has experience in advising clients on a range of transactional and commercial matters, including general corporate matters, joint venture and large-scale asset finance. She advises on general regulato... Sector/service Joins: -
Carolyn Chudleigh
Partners
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Carolyn Chudleigh is the global head of HFW’s international construction team. Carolyn is a highly regarded legal practitioner in Australia's property development sector and has over 25 years experience. Carolyn is also the head of HFW's Sydney off... Sector/service Joins: -
Simon Chumas
Consultants
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Simon is a Consultant specialising in the investigation and handling of all claims (wet and dry) arising out of marine casualties. Acting principally for shipowners and their insurers, he has particular expertise in advising on collisions, allisions,... Sector/service Joins: -
Jacqueline Chung
Associates
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Jacqueline focuses her practices on corporate and commercial matters, including initial public offerings on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. Jacqueline was admitted in Hong Kong. She speaks fluent English and Mandarin. Sector/service Joins: -
Winnie Chung
Associates
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Winnie specialises in dispute resolution in particularly the area of shipping and international trade. She has experience acting for and advising shipowners, charterers, traders and P&I Clubs in a range of litigation and arbitrations, including disp... Sector/service Joins: -
Clare Chyb
Senior Associates
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Clare specialises in international trade and commodities, with a focus on coal, oil and metals in particular. Her clients include banks, energy companies and trading companies. Sector/service Joins: -
Henry Clack
Associates
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Henry specialises in international commercial dispute resolution, with a particular focus on both "wet" and "dry" shipping issues. He has experience representing shipowners, P&I Clubs, commodity traders, brokers and logistics companies. He has worked... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Timothy Clemens-Jones
Partners
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Timothy specialises in international transportation and trade, with a particular focus on conflicts of laws and cross-border transactions in the shipping, aviation and international trade sectors. Sector/service Joins: -
Joel Cockerell
Senior Associates
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Joel is a Senior Associate and Mariner in our Singapore office. He handles all types of disputes arising out of marine casualties, with a primary focus on marine and offshore casualty response. In addition, he has significant experience advising on a... Sector/service Joins: -
Charles Cockrell
Partners
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Charles specialises in aviation liability and regulatory law. He acts for a number of Middle East and African airlines, ground handlers, business jet operators, regulators and other aerospace entities on a wide range of matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Lauren Cogley
Associates
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Lauren is an associate solicitor based in our Piraeus office and specialises in commercial dispute resolution with a focus on shipping law. She has experience in dealing with the full breadth of shipping issues ranging from charterparty disputes to c... Sector/service Joins: -
Holly Colaco
Knowledge Management Team
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Holly is a member of the KM team at HFW with particular responsibility for shipping. She focuses on the provision of knowhow support to the shipping group and its clients, as well as on firmwide KM and training projects. Sector/service Joins: -
Geoffrey Conlin
Partners
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Geoffrey is a partner of HFW and a foreign consultant to CAL Advogados in Brazil. He is an English lawyer and is registered as a foreign lawyer with the OAB in Brazil. He has been based in Sao Paulo since February 2013. Sector/service Joins: -
Victoria Cooper
Senior Associates
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Victoria is a Senior Associate in the Aerospace team. Sector/service Joins: -
Louis Cornut Gentille
Senior Associates
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Louis' practice focuses on insurance law as he advises on the wording and application of liability, property and other types of policies on a regular basis. He deals with complex insurance claims involving specialty products such as professional inde... Sector/service Joins: -
Julio Costa
Partners
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Julio Costa is a partner in CAL and specialises in Aerospace having worked on in excess of 50 aviation accidents. He advises airlines, insurers and reinsurers, manufacturers, airport and port operators, investors and P&I Clubs. Julio has extensive ex... Sector/service Joins: -
Jean-Edouard Courjon
Associates
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Jean-Edouard is an associate in the finance department of our Paris office. He advises financial institutions, investors and borrowers in a wide range of financings, notably on asset finance and acquisition finance transactions. Jean-Edouard teaches ... Sector/service Joins: -
Ian Cranston
Partners
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Ian Cranston is the Monaco Office Head. He advises clients on matters involving international trade and commodities, dry shipping, yachts, energy and offshore. Sector/service Joins: -
Richard Crump
Partners
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Richard Crump has been HFW's Global Senior Partner since 2007. He works closely with the firm's Managing Partner and the Management Board in overseeing the firm's strategy and operations and he is responsible for chairing the firm's partnership. Unde... Sector/service Joins: -
Marco Crusafio
Partners
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Marco advises and represents a wide variety of international clients in shipping, yachting and international trade and commodities disputes before the English national courts and in international arbitral proceedings. His expertise in shipping matte... Sector/service Joins: -
François Dainelli
Associates
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Francois focuses on transportation law, in particular aerospace and shipping law. He advises and represents airlines, airports, shipowners, freight forwarders and their insurers in a vast array of litigation, ranging from passenger claims to cargo di... Sector/service Joins: Paris -
Rula Dajani Abuljebain
Partners
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Rula is the Managing Partner of HFW's Middle East Kuwait office and corporate partner of the Dubai office. Rula leads the corporate, projects and finance offering in the Middle East and specialises in transactional corporate and commercial law. Her p... Sector/service Joins: -
Alix d'Arjuzon
Senior Associates
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Alix advises and represents different clients in the transport sector, such as major airlines, insurers and other aerospace entities, on a wide range of legal matters, including finance and leases, the drafting and negotiation of contracts and regula... Sector/service Joins: -
Asheesh Das
Partners
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Asheesh (Ash) specialises in asset and project financing in the transportation and energy sectors and is based in the London office. Before joining HFW Ash was Head of Legal at Elix Aviation Capital and has worked in private practice for over 25 year... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Elinor Dautlich
Partners
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Elinor heads the global finance team. Sector/service Joins: -
Angelina Davidson-Houston
Senior Associates
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Angelina worked for five years in the firm's London and Hong Kong offices, handling mainly dry shipping work before taking a career break. She re-joined HFW in February 2008 and works in the firm's Shipping and Transport Group. Angelina also handles ... Sector/service Joins: -
Jeremy Davies
Consultants
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Jeremy is a Consultant for HFW's Geneva office. He specialises in oil trading disputes and related shipping, banking and insurance issues. Previously, Jeremy spent four years at Gard in Norway, working on defence cases; as the Secretary of the Boa... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Paul Davies
Consultants
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Paul specialises in shipping, including collisions, salvage, fire and explosion, total loss, limitation of liability, wreck removal, both civil and criminal pollution liabilities. Also marine insurance coverage and other shipping-related commercial ... Sector/service Joins: -
Julian Davies
Partners
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Julian is a partner based in our Shanghai office. As well as being a solicitor, Julian is also a master mariner with over twelve years experience at sea on general cargo/container, tankers (VLCC, Product, North Sea Shuttle (DP2) and LNG), gas carri... Sector/service Joins: -
Hélène de Ferrières
Associates
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Hélène specialises in maritime law, and advises clients in both contentious and transactional matters. She is a Member of the Paris Bar. Sector/service Joins: -
Frédéric de Foucault
Associates
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Frédéric's practice focuses on banking and finance transactions. He advises a range of clients including borrowers, sponsors, banks, lenders, state owned entities and corporate clients on financing transactions in France and abroad. Prior to joining ... Sector/service Joins: -
Diane de Mouy
Partners
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Diane de Moüy is a partner in the Finance group of HFW’s Paris office. She specialises in banking and finance transactions with a particular emphasis on leveraged finance, export finance, debt restructuring, project finance and banking and stock exch... Sector/service Joins: -
Tania De Swart
Partners
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Tania is a corporate and commercial partner in our UAE offices. Tania has more than twenty years' corporate and commercial experience, including thirteen years in the UAE. Her practice focuses on corporate, commercial, M&A, joint ventures, restr... Sector/service Joins: -
Paul Dean
Partners
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Paul is Global Head of Shipping at HFW managing 200 specialist shipping lawyers across a worldwide network of 20 offices. Paul specialises in offshore and marine, focusing mainly on charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, rig disputes, collis... Sector/service Joins: -
Mona Dejean
Senior Associates
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Mona is a senior associate at HFW and specialises in shipping and transport. As a French avocat, Mona provides advice on legal risks; she assists with settlement negotiations as well as providing legal representation in arbitration or before the co... Sector/service Joins: -
Arob Deng
Associates
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Arob specialises in banking and finance law with an emphasis on the shipping, superyacht and offshore sectors. Arob has experience acting for financial institutions, export credit agencies and owners on a variety of matters including vessel sale and ... Sector/service Joins: -
Robert Desmond
Partners
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Robert has more than 30 years experience advising clients in the energy sector, with a focus on downstream (petroleum products refining, marketing and distribution) operations. He has extensive experience in M&A/JV, trade practices, storage/infrastru... Sector/service Joins: -
Maria Deus
Legal Directors
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Maria specialises in construction and engineering law, including review and drafting of contract documentation, contract and claims management and representation of clients in arbitration and mediation. Sector/service Joins: -
Thomas Dickson
Associates
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Thomas specialises in international commercial dispute resolution, with a focus on shipping, offshore and logistics disputes. He has advised on both wet and dry shipping matters, including salvage cases, wreck removal, groundings, collisions, cargo d... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Ryan Doherty
Associates
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Ryan advises clients in the energy and resources sector on all aspects of commercial property law, including transactions, bespoke leasing and licencing agreements and environmental matters. He also advises clients in relation to general corporate an... Sector/service Joins: -
Katherine Doran
Senior Associates
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Katherine is a senior associate in HFW's international construction team. Sector/service Joins: -
Vivienne Douglas
Costs Management Team
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Vivienne is a Costs Draftsperson in our London office. Sector/service Joins: -
Martin Downey
Partners
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Widely recognised as a leading construction lawyer, Martin's practice spans commercial litigation, arbitration, mediation and alternative dispute resolution, including regulatory and environmental issues. A qualified arbitrator and mediator, Martin h... Sector/service Joins: -
Stephen Drury
Partners
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Stephen's practice encompasses all aspects of financing, leasing, operation and management of ships, as well as general company and commercial advice. He advises banks, shipowners, ship managers, operators and entrepreneurs on activities connected to... Sector/service Joins: -
Alistair Duffield
Partners
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Alistair has more than 26 years' experience in South East Asia, advising mining, energy and natural resources companies on M&A transactions and the structuring, development and financing of major projects. Sector/service Joins: -
Henry Dunlop
Partners
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Practising mostly in London maritime and trade arbitration while based in Hong Kong, Henry advises on contract terms and disputes under time charterparties and contracts of affreightment, bills of lading, commodities sale and purchase contracts, joi... Sector/service Joins: -
Diane Dusserre
Associates
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Diane Dusserre is an Energy & Resources lawyer based in HFW’s Paris office, since 2018. Her practice focuses on advising broad range of public and private companies and financial institutions linked to the energy field. Prior to joining HFW Paris as ... Sector/service Joins: -
Rosina Dyke
Associates
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Rosina is a transactional lawyer specialising in yachts and ship finance. She is a qualified English law solicitor. Sector/service Joins: -
Mohamed Eissa
Associates
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Mohamed is a bilingual lawyer and handles shipping and general litigation matters. He has extensive experience in handling litigation matters in various jurisdictions in the Middle East, with a particular focus on the UAE, Kuwait and Egypt. He ... Sector/service Joins: -
Mansour Elaraby
Associates
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Mansour has in-depth commercial dispute resolution experience in the Middle East, focuses on shipping, aerospace and logistics. Further, Mansour has been supporting the Construction Team handling major disputes in the GCC with pre-litigation analysis... Sector/service Joins: -
Ashraf Elbakri
Senior Associates
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Ashraf has been admitted to the Sudanese Bar Association in 1990. He practiced with a number of law firms in Oman and UAE. He is a bilingual (Arabic/English) litigator. Sector/service Joins: -
Eliza Eliades
Associates
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Eliza specialises in international shipping dispute resolution, with a particular focus on disputes arising from charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding and claims for total loss indemnity. Sector/service Joins: -
Peter Emery
Senior Associates
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Peter advises on corporate and commercial transactions, including joint ventures, shipbuilding, offshore contracting, intellectual property and energy related matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Jacob Esparza
Partners
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Jacob handles complex litigation involving the insurance, construction, energy, and transportation sectors. His practice extends to resolving disputes and litigation involving residential and commercial construction defect, oilfield losses, risk allo... Sector/service Joins: -
Sheshe Evans
Partners
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Sheshe Taylor Evans is an experienced business litigator and a trusted counselor. Keenly aware that proactive solutions are central to avoiding costly litigation, Sheshe’s litigation practice is enhanced by her strong commitment to practical advice a... Sector/service Joins: -
Dimitris Exarchou
Partners
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Dimitris specialises in shipping, with particular emphasis on dispute resolution arising from charterparties, bills of lading, management agreements, groundings, salvage, general average, shipbuilding, ship sale and purchase contracts and multi-juris... Sector/service Joins: -
Anna Fazzini
Associates
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Anna acts for a number of developers and international investors into Australia, providing commercial and contractual advice in relation to development matters and more specifically, land titling structures and usage, development structuring, Foreign... Sector/service Joins: -
Alistair Feeney
Partners
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Alistair joined HFW in 2000. He specialises in handling disputes, including in relation to crude oil, petroleum products and LNG; shipbuilding and offshore structures; yacht sale and purchase, refit, and charters. His clients include national a... Sector/service Joins: -
Pierre Feng
Associates
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Pierre specialises in insurance, industrial risks and international commercial litigation. He has been involved in both domestic and international disputes referred to French Courts and arbitral tribunals (ICC, UNCITRAL, ICSID, FED). Sector/service Joins: -
Victor Fenwick
Legal Directors
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Victor specialises in casualty, marine insurance and shipping disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
Robert Finney
Consultants
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Robert’s practice focuses primarily on financial services, markets and products. He advises mainly banks, utilities, energy companies, traders, brokers, investment funds, and exchanges on securities, derivatives and commodities business, and particu... Sector/service Joins: -
Francesco Fiorilli
Senior Associates
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Francesco specialises in aviation liability and regulatory matters. He also has a broader litigation and arbitration experience, particularly on international commercial, insurance and banking and finance matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Nicholas Fisher
Partners
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Nick specialises in commercial shipping and international trade disputes in the High Court and in LMAA, LCIA and ICC arbitration. Sector/service Joins: -
Luke Fittis
Associates
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Luke is an associate in HFW's Dubai office, having trained in both the London and Dubai offices. He is part of the shipping team. Sector/service Joins: -
Leanne Fok
Associates
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Leanne is an Associate in our Hong Kong office. Sector/service Joins: -
Alexandra Forrest
Senior Associates
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Alexandra is a Senior Associate in our Singapore office who specialises in aviation and shipping finance. She advises lessors, banks, owners and operators in the financing and leasing of aircraft, aircraft engines, corporate jets and ships. Sector/service Joins: -
John Forrester
Partners
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John is a Partner based in Singapore who specialises in international ship and offshore finance but who also advises clients in other key industry sectors served by the firm, including the oil and gas trade, insurance and energy sectors. He has acted... Sector/service Joins: -
Lee Forsyth
Senior Associates
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Lee specialises in litigation, arbitration and mediation and advises on shipping, sale of goods (both hard and soft commodities) and derivatives disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
Christopher Foster
Partners
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Christopher is a solicitor advocate with considerable experience in contentious insurance and reinsurance matters, often with an international element, and commercial litigation generally. Sector/service Joins: -
Trevor Fox
Partners
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Trevor is a dual-qualified US attorney and English solicitor qualified to practice in Illinois, England and Wales. Sector/service Joins: -
Diana France
Partners
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Diana advises clients across the energy sector on a wide range of issues, including upstream oil and gas, LNG, energy management, electricity and renewables. She previously worked in industry with British Gas Exploration and Production (now BG Group)... Sector/service Joins: -
Costas Frangeskides
Partners
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Costas is a very experienced lawyer in contentious insurance and reinsurance matters, international arbitration and commercial litigation. He has conducted in the region of 100 or more contentious commercial disputes, whether in arbitration or litiga... Sector/service Joins: -
Anisha Franklin
Associates
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Anisha is a qualified solicitor of England and Wales and an Avocat à la Cour with the Paris bar. Anisha specialises in international transportation and trade, with a particular focus on cross-border commercial disputes and transactions in shipping, c... Sector/service Joins: -
Melanie Fridgant
Associates
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Melanie is an Associate in the Shipping group. Her practice focuses on maritime and offshore energy matters, transactional matters, and commercial litigation. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Pierre Frühling
Partners
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Pierre, who heads the Brussels office, has more than 20 years' experience advising clients in both the Belgian and French markets. Sector/service Joins: -
Henry Fung 冯志文
Partners
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Henry's practice covers a broad spectrum of contentious and non-contentious matters. His contentious work covers traditional shipping and yachting-related work (charterparty disputes, cargo claims, personal injury claims and insurance claims), as w... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Commodities Insurance & Reinsurance -
Maria Galan
Associates
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Maria specialises in dispute resolution, commercial litigation, aviation and insurance/reinsurance. Sector/service Joins: -
Simon Gamboni
Associates
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Simon is an Associate in the Dubai office and deals with dispute resolution including large scale, multinational litigation and arbitration in the shipping, transport and international trade sectors. Sector/service Joins: -
Mark Gammon
Senior Legal Executive
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Mark is a Senior Legal Executive in the aerospace team. He specialises in air carriers' liability, airports, GA and product liability disputes and has worked extensively with a large network of legal correspondents in Europe, India and the Middle Eas... Sector/service Joins: -
Gordon Gardiner
Partners
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Gordon advises on Hong Kong and English law issues in contentious and non-contentious matters across the spectrum of aviation companies and their insurers, including airlines, airports, ground handlers, cargo terminals, maintenance and repair organis... Sector/service Joins: -
Nicola Gare
Knowledge Management Team
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Nicola is a member of the knowledge management team at HFW with particular responsibility for dispute resolution. She focuses on the provision of knowhow support to the contentious practice groups, and their clients. She is also involved in several f... Sector/service Joins: -
Jo Garland
Partners
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Jo has extensive experience in the energy and resources, decarbonisation, regulatory and climate change fields. She is passionate about the new energy transition, having guided clients through (what was) the world's largest hybrid power system for a ... Sector/service Joins: Energy Commercial Mining Oil and Gas Projects -
Christopher Garley
Partners
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Chris joined HFW in 2008 and, after training for a period in Hong Kong, qualified into HFW's London Shipping Litigation team in 2010, advising on both "wet" and "dry" disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
Abeer Garousha
Associates
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Abeer's practice focuses on a broad range of corporate, commercial and general finance matters, including corporate structuring, reorganisations, the sale and purchase of assets, commercial contracts and general commercial work. Sector/service Joins: -
Luke Garrett
Senior Associates
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Luke is a senior associate in the insurance/reinsurance litigation team in Dubai. Sector/service Joins: -
Marc Ghammachi
Associates
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Marc is an associate in HFW’s shipping team in Dubai, having previously trained and qualified in England and Wales. He specialises in the shipping and logistics sector. Sector/service Joins: -
Paolo Ghirardani
Partners
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Paolo spent the first seven years of his career at HFW, having joined as a trainee in 1983. He has been a partner within the profession for almost 30 years, including 15 years as the head of a global Marine and International Trade practice. He rejoin... Sector/service Joins: -
Shane Gibbons
Associates
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Shane joined the insurance/reinsurance litigation team in Dubai in January 2018 as an Associate. Sector/service Joins: -
William Gidman
Senior Associates
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William is a dispute resolution and advisory lawyer with experience relating to charterparties, shipbuilding contracts, bills of lading, sales contracts, off-spec cargo, letters of indemnity and MOAs. Sector/service Joins: -
Richard Gimblett
Partners
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Richard is the Resident Managing Partner of HFW's Middle East Dubai office and specialises in aviation, travel law and commercial litigation. He leads the HFW aviation team in Dubai. A past in-house legal adviser at the UK CAA, Richard’s practice inc... Sector/service Joins: -
Thomas Godener
Associates
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Thomas is an associate qualified in Paris and Brussels. He specialises in litigation and advises in several areas such as aviation law, competition law and public procurement law. Sector/service Joins: -
Stéphanie Golinvaux
Partners
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Stéphanie holds an LL.M. in Air and Space Law at the Faculty of Law of Leiden University in the Netherlands, which she obtained cum laude. She speaks French, English and Dutch. Sector/service Joins: -
Ian Gordon
Partners
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Ian has extensive experience in a broad range of construction, engineering and infrastructure transactions, including dispute resolution. He acts for companies listed on the ASX Limited, private companies and not-for-profit organisations. Sector/service Joins: -
Vince Gordon
Partners
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Vince has substantial experience in all types of transactional Middle Eastern work including banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, debt capital markets, trade finance, structuring and joint ventures, funds and regulatory work. He has been b... Sector/service Joins: -
Matthew Gore
Partners
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Matthew is fast gaining a reputation in the firm as the Go-To Expert for corporate / commercial legal work as a specialist in the ports and terminals, shipping and the logistics sectors. This should come as no surprise given his commercial and operat... Sector/service Joins: -
James Gosling
Consultants
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James specialises in shipping, including collisions, salvage, fire and explosion, total loss, piracy, limitation of liability, wreck removal, both civil and criminal pollution liabilities. Also marine insurance and coverage and other shipping-related... Sector/service Joins: -
Steffi Gougoulaki
Associates
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Steffi is an Associate in the litigation team of the firm's Piraeus office. She regularly advises shipowners, their insurers and salvors in relation to a range of dry and wet shipping matters, and is involved in large scale mediations, arbitrations a... Sector/service Joins: -
Jonathan Goulding
Senior Associates
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Jonathan is a solicitor and mariner in the Admiralty and Crisis Management team of the firm's Shipping Group. He advises on litigation arising from marine and offshore energy casualties, including collisions, groundings, salvage/wreck removal, fires,... Sector/service Joins: -
Craig Grant
Associates
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Craig is an associate in our London office who focuses on complex corporate and commercial matters. He advises on a range of transactions across the energy, shipping and logistics sectors, including cross-border M&A, joint ventures, restructurings a... Sector/service Joins: -
Lizzie Gray
Senior Associates
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Lizzie joined HFW in 2010 and specialises in employment law and complex commercial disputes for clients across a range of industries at arbitration, employment tribunals and in the High Court. Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Green
Associates
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Andrew advises clients on trade finance and financial regulation. On the trade finance side, Andrew advises a range of banks and trading houses on a wide variety of types of structured finance deals including pre-export, pre-payment, inventory, limit... Sector/service Joins: -
Cassandra Gridi
Associates
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Cassandra joined HFW's Swiss legal team in Geneva in 2019 as a junior associate. She mainly practices in the field of commercial law, where she assists numerous trading companies and financial institutions. She has experience with civil disputes, in ... Sector/service Joins: -
Gavin Hadfield
Partners
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Gavin is the Global Risk Partner for the firm and the Compliance Officer for Legal Practice and is responsible for the firm's risk management and compliance. Sector/service Joins: -
Bree Haigh
Knowledge Management Team
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Bree is a member of the knowledge management team with responsibility for providing support to all industry sectors Australia wide. She focuses on providing knowhow support to all group in Australia and their clients, and is also involved in firm wi... Sector/service Joins: -
Julie Hanoun
Associates
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Julie is an Aerospace lawyer based in HFW's Paris office. Julie specialises in dispute resolution, and advises and represents clients in both international and domestic disputes, including major catastrophes, passenger claims, cargo claims, EU 261. S... Sector/service Joins: Paris -
Guy Hardaker
Partners
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Guy has an unusually broad practice covering energy, commodities, utilities and arbitration reflecting his experience in the Firm's London, Singapore and Hong Kong offices. Sector/service Joins: -
Pippa Harley
Associates
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Pippa specialises in commercial transactions, particularly major real estate development projects, acquisitions and disposals. Pippa acts for developers, foreign investors, and private clients looking to invest in the commercial, residential, retail,... Sector/service Joins: -
Chris Hart
Of Counsel
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Chris's practice focuses on shipping, marine, and energy companies, including litigation and commercial transactions. He is an experienced trial lawyer, resolving disputes in federal and state courts and in arbitration. He advises clients in transa... Sector/service Joins: -
James Henson
Associates
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James is an Associate in HFW’s Hong Kong office, specialising in complex commercial litigation, with a focus on fraud and insolvency related disputes. He has broad range of experience in the High Court and the Court of Appeal, including both trials ... Sector/service Joins: Fraud and Insolvency -
Mert Hifzi
Partners
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Mert heads HFW's Singapore office and the Asia-Pacific Aerospace practice. The HFW Asia-Pacific Aerospace team comprises 8 partners and 20 Associates, based in Singapore, Hong Kong and Sydney, and is the largest aviation team in the region. Mert h... Sector/service Joins: -
Camilla Hobart-Smith
Associates
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Camilla is an associate in our London office who specialises in commercial energy dispute resolution. She has acted in numerous international arbitrations and commercial court litigation in relation to oil and gas, renewable energy, ship sale and pur... Sector/service Joins: -
William Hold
Partners
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William is a Partner in HFW's Geneva office. He regularly acts for trading companies in disputes involving a range of physical commodities, and has been involved in arbitrations governed by the Swiss Rules, as well as the rules of the ICC, the SIAC, ... Sector/service Joins: -
Damian Honey
Partners
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Damian joined HFW in 1997. Damian advises commodity traders, producers, financiers and insurers on all aspects of their business, including in particular physical and financial sale and purchase, finance and transportation. He assists and represents ... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Finance International Trade Regulation Dispute Resolution -
Christian Horbye
Associates
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Ian Hughes
Senior Associates
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Ian is a banking and finance lawyer with specialist experience in the shipping, superyacht, offshore and aviation sectors. Ian advises banks and other financial institutions, funds, Islamic investors, insurance companies and owners on a variety of ma... Sector/service Joins: -
Nicola Hui
Senior Associates
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Nicola works in HFW’s Hong Kong shipping, offshore and logistics department. She has extensive experience in maritime and trade disputes, and acts for clients in Hong Kong and English High Court proceedings, HKIAC, CIETAC, SIAC and LMAA arbitrations.... Sector/service Joins: -
King Hui
Consultants
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King has extensive experience in corporate/commercial, litigation and real estate. Sector/service Joins: -
Max Hui
Associates
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Max focuses his practice on corporate and commercial matters, including corporate finance, initial public offerings, secondary fund raising transactions, compliance and regulatory issues, and mergers and acquisitions. Sector/service Joins: -
Sarah Hunt
Partners
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Sarah acts for a range of trading companies, charterers and owners in shipping and international trade disputes. Her work involves petroleum products, gasoil, cement, coal, bitumen, steel and other metals, ethanol and soft commodities. She has partic... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Fabienne Huot-Soudain
Associates
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Fabienne joined HFW in 1993 as paralegal and has been admitted at the Paris Bar since January 2015. She has developed extensive experience in personal injury, travel litigation and leisure litigation. Sector/service Joins: -
Nick Hutton
Partners
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Nick has a broad corporate/commercial practice. He specialises in transactional, corporate and commercial law with particular reference to the energy, insurance, commodities and transport industries. His practice spans a wide range of areas, inclu... Sector/service Joins: -
Kerry Ioulianou
Senior Associates
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Kerry advises on construction law, specialising in large scale, complex infrastructure and engineering disputes. He has a focus on arbitrations and ADR, and also advises on legal issues arising from the conclusion and execution of construction contra... Sector/service Joins: -
Natalie Jackson
Senior Associates
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Natalie joined HFW in September 2017 after qualifying as an English solicitor in London with a shipping law firm for 2 years and subsequently working for a British law firm in Piraeus, as an Associate / Senior Associate in the shipping litigation dep... Sector/service Joins: -
Ciara Jackson
Senior Associates
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Ciara advises UK and international clients on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious insurance and reinsurance matters, and acts for (re)insurers, policyholders and brokers. She has represented clients in both English High Court proceedings ... Sector/service Joins: -
Laura Jacobs
Associates
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Laura has a strong workplace advisory focus, working with clients across a range of industries to assist in identifying and managing legal risks in the workplace and defending employee claims when they arise. She advises on all areas of workplace law... Sector/service Joins: -
Thilo Jahn
Senior Associates
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Thilo specialises in commercial shipping and commodity dispute resolution, in particular disputes arising under commodity contracts, charterparties, bills of lading as well as offshore and shipbuilding contracts. Sector/service Joins: -
Shyamal Jeewoolall
Partners
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Shyamal is a Partner based in our Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices specialising in asset and structured finance. Shyamal has extensive experience of advising a wide range of clients in the aviation industry including airlines, aircraft leasing companies, ... Sector/service Joins: -
Simon Jerrum
Partners
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Simon is a partner in the fraud and insolvency team at HFW. Simon specialises in commercial and insolvency litigation, often involving allegations of fraud or wrongdoing. He has substantial experience of disputes before the English courts, and liti... Sector/service Joins: -
Whitney Jiang
Associates
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Whitney's area of practice includes commercial transactions, property acquisitions and development; drafting legal due diligence reports and finance facility documents; advising on duties and Foreign Investment Review Board applications. Sector/service Joins: -
Daniel Johnson
Associates
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Daniel is an Associate in the construction team at HFW, specialising in construction disputes and avoidance. He has experience of a range of dispute resolution procedures including arbitration, litigation, mediation and adjudication. He also has expe... Sector/service Joins: -
Dominic Johnson
Partners
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Dominic deals with the issues arising from all types of marine casualties, including collisions, groundings, salvage, total loss, fire and explosion, wreck removal, piracy, limitation of liability and both civil and criminal liabilities. He also deal... Sector/service Joins: -
Chris Jones
Consultants
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Chris joined HFW's Singapore Shipping practice in 2019 as a Consultant. Sector/service Joins: -
Lynne Jones
Knowledge Management Team
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Lynne is head of library and information services. Based in our London office, she is responsible for making sure that HFW's information needs are met and managed across all of our international offices, offering a broad responsive research service ... Sector/service Joins: -
Peter Jones
Costs Management Team
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Peter is a Costs Lawyer (as opposed to a Solicitor) and has dealt with the preparation of bills of costs covering many areas of the law and has attended many costs related hearings throughout the country, both justifying and opposing costs. Sector/service Joins: -
James Jordan
Senior Associates
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James is a Senior Associate in HFW's market leading aviation team with over ten years' experience tackling complex legal issues in the aerospace, transport, logistics, and insurance industries. Sector/service Joins: -
Aaron Jordan
Partners
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Aaron has over 15 years’ experience advising clients on all aspects of corporate and commercial law. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, and advising on corporate governance and regulatory matters. Aaron also regularly advis... Sector/service Joins: -
Richard Jowett
Partners
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Richard covers insurance and reinsurance and, in particular, he handles high value and/or complex claims. With a strong background in professional indemnity and liability work Richard has branched into marine, construction, energy and ISR (including ... Sector/service Joins: -
Pooja Kapadia
Associates
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Pooja is an Associate with the Shipping team specialising in commercial dispute resolution. Sector/service Joins: -
Kalliopi Karaiskaki
Partners
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Kal is a transactional lawyer with diverse experience in international contracts and focus on asset finance, corporate and oil & gas. She advises clients on a wide range of areas, including joint ventures, corporate governance, investment funds, sha... Sector/service Joins: -
Giles Kavanagh
Partners
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Giles heads the global aerospace team. Sector/service Joins: -
George Kaye
Associates
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George is an English-qualified shipping and trade lawyer based in our Monaco office. He has a wide practice, encompassing contentious wet, dry and international trade & commodities matters as well as general commercial disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
Nicholas Kazaz
Senior Associates
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Nicholas Kazaz is an experienced international commercial dispute resolution lawyer, specialising in offshore oil & gas, energy, and marine. He focuses on disputes arising from installation contracts, charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, r... Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Keeghan
Associates
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Andrew deals with insurance and reinsurance clients, with a particular focus on policyholder claims. He has experience in commercial disputes and dispute resolution, including mediation, arbitration and litigation. Andrew also has experience dealing ... Sector/service Joins: -
Philip Kelleher
Associates
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Philip specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration, with particular focus on shipping, commodities, insolvency and fraud. He has worked on various complex, multi-jurisdictional disputes, acting for a range of clients including banks, traders... Sector/service Joins: -
Jeremy Kelly
Associates
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Jeremy is an Associate working in HFW's Brussels and London offices, specialising in competition law and international trade. He has experience of both UK and EU competition proceedings, having worked on merger control proceedings before the CMA and... Sector/service Joins: -
Martina Kelly
Senior Associates
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Martina specialises in advising commodity traders, energy companies and investment banks on their physical commodities trading contracts and related aspects of international trade. Martina's practice focuses on the trading of petroleum products, cr... Sector/service Joins: -
Alex Kemp
Partners
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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 ris... Sector/service Joins: -
Gerard Kimmitt
Partners
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Jerry splits his time between commercial disputes and transactional work. His practice involves a significant amount of time working with insurers in the London Market as well as representing US companies in all manner of litigation and transactiona... Sector/service Joins: -
Julianne Kneen
Consultants
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Before HFW, Julianne was in-house counsel at BP in South Africa, the UK and the US for over 20 years, where, for the majority of that time, she specialized in international trading in support of BP's oil trading business in both the UK and the US. Sector/service Joins: -
Sian Knight
Knowledge Management Team
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Siân is a member of the knowledge management team at HFW, based in Hong Kong. Her focus is on providing knowhow support to the Hong Kong office, with some regional support for our other Asian offices. She works closely with her London based colleague... Sector/service Joins: -
Patrick Knox
Legal Directors
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Patrick is a Legal Director in the firm's commodities group. Sector/service Joins: -
Ashwani Kochhar
Partners
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Ashwani specialises in corporate and regulatory insurance. He advises on a wide spectrum of non-contentious matters, including insurance mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance (including capital raising, flotations and takeovers) and financial s... Sector/service Joins: -
Konstantinos Kofopoulos
Associates
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Konstantinos is an Associate in HFW’s Piraeus office and acts principally for owners, charterers and P&I Clubs on both contentious and non-contentious dry shipping matters. His work spans a variety of disputes such as charterparty, bill of lading, FD... Sector/service Joins: -
Stephanie Koh
Associates
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Stephanie is a transactional shipping lawyer with experience in commercial and yachting transactions. She has worked on a variety of asset finance, sale and purchase, and yacht construction transactions. She also has experience in trade finance. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Vanessa Koh
Associates
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Vanessa is an Associate in the Energy and Resources practice in Singapore and specialises in advising and managing international commercial arbitrations. Sector/service Joins: -
Jean Koh
Partners
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Jean is Head of Dry Shipping (London) and specialises in shipping litigation, focussing on contractual shipping disputes including charterparties, bills of lading, cargo claims, commodities/trade disputes, ship sale and purchase disputes, bunker disp... Sector/service Joins: -
Aaron Kok
Of Counsel
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Aaron brings to the table more than a decade of experience working on all forms of cross-border M&A, joint ventures, private equity transactions and complex restructurings. Sector/service Joins: Corporate Commercial Energy -
Prashant Kukadia
Associates
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Prashant is an Associate specialising in international dispute resolution, with a particular focus on commercial litigation, international arbitration, commodities, shipping and trade. Sector/service Joins: -
Chanaka Kumarasinghe
Partners
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Chanaka is a partner in HFW's Energy & Resources / International Arbitration group. He is a qualified lawyer in England and Wales and Singapore. He joined HFW (London) in 2002 and has been permanently based in HFW (Singapore) since 2005. Sector/service Joins: -
Alex Kyriakoulis
Partners
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Alex focuses on complex corporate, finance and restructuring matters worldwide. He has over 15 years of experience representing companies (including start-ups and listed companies), private equity houses, governments and other public sector bodies, a... Sector/service Joins: -
Naraya Lamart
Special Counsel
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Naraya is a Special Counsel in the shipping and transport sector. Naraya has experience in casualty crisis management, ship arrest and judicial sales of vessels, cargo claims, marine insurance advisory work, charterparty litigation and negotiation as... Sector/service Joins: -
Stephanie Lambert
Partners
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Stephanie is a Partner in our Sydney office. Stephanie specialises in major projects which cross a number of industry sectors. Stephanie acts for institutional developers, foreign investors and developers and listed and unlisted property trusts with... Sector/service Joins: -
Alexandra Lamont
Associates
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Alexandra specialises in shipping, with a particular focus on disputes arising from charterparties, bills of lading, marine insurance, personal injury and marine causalities. She also provides advice in relation to ship arrests and regulatory issues ... Sector/service Joins: -
George Lamplough
Partners
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George is a dispute resolution practitioner specialising in cross-border fraud, banking and international trade disputes and shipping law (wet and dry). George is qualified in New Zealand, Hong Kong and England and Wales, where he is also admitted as... Sector/service Joins: -
Lee Landale
Associates
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Lee specialises in commercial litigation with an emphasis on fraud, asset recovery and insolvency. She has worked on various complex, cross-border financial litigation matters with a focus on injunctive relief, tracing and securing the proceeds of ... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Cynthia Lau
Associates
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Cynthia joined HFW in 2014 and specialises in handling incidents and accidents in relation to aviation, including aircraft damage, personal injury, passenger and cargo disputes. She is also experienced in handling general commercial disputes and def... Sector/service Joins: -
Louise Lazarou
Senior Associates
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Louise is a senior associate based in Rotterdam, Netherlands and acts principally for owners, charterers and P&I Clubs on both contentious and non contentious dry shipping matters. Her work spans a variety of disputes such as charterparty, bill of la... Sector/service Joins: -
Royce Lee
Associates
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Royce specialises in asset finance with focus on aviation finance. Royce has advised banks, operating lessors and airlines on transactions involving cross-border aircraft financings, aircraft leasing and sales/acquisitions. Royce has transferred fro... Sector/service Joins: -
Benavon Lee
Associates
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Benavon is an asset finance lawyer who specialises in aviation finance. She advises on a variety of cross-border finance transactions including syndicated loans secured by assets, sale and lease back transactions, lessor portfolio financings, aircraf... Sector/service Joins: -
Glenn Legge
Partners
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Glenn focuses his practice in the areas of commercial litigation, including energy, marine, construction and insurance coverage matters, as well as regulatory investigations and transactional matters. He has tried numerous cases to verdict, has arbi... Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Leir
Consultants
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Andrew specialises in the resolution of shipping and trade disputes arising from charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, commodity and supply contracts, contracts of affeightment, and marine insurance. He assists and represents clients in liti... Sector/service Joins: -
Ghislain Lepoutre
Senior Associates
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Ghislain is in the insurance and reinsurance team, advising on both contentious and non-contentious cases. He practices in all areas of insurance law, acting for underwriters and insureds. He acts in and advises on the resolution of disputes, domesti... Sector/service Joins: -
Stanislas Lequette
Partners
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Stanislas specialises in commercial litigation and arbitration. He acts on a regular basis for clients in the maritime and energy sectors in contractual, corporate and general liability disputes. His clients include, major oil companies, ship-owners,... Sector/service Joins: -
Daniel Leung 梁毅翔
Partners
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Daniel has extensive experience in providing legal advices in matters relating to cross-border transactions (especially China-related inbound/outbound investments), supply chain, corporate and general commercial matters. He also advises clients on ... Sector/service Joins: -
Therri Lewis
Associates
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James Lewis
Consultants
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James Lewis has over 25 years’ experience in a broad range of international and domestic corporate finance transactions; IPOs and equity and debt issues, acting for the issuer and the sponsor/broker; public and private mergers and acquisitions (inclu... Sector/service Joins: -
Audrey Li
Associates
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Audrey specialises in commercial dispute resolution with particular focus on the areas of fraud, banking, companies litigation, utilities (electricity and telecoms) and commodities. She also has experience in obtaining interlocutory orders in support... Sector/service Joins: -
Michelle Li
Associates
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Michelle graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a double degree of Bachelor of Business Administration (Law) and Bachelor of Laws. Michelle is primarily involved in shipping and international trade litigation and arbitration, mainly on dispu... Sector/service Joins: -
Winnie Liang
Senior Associates
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Winnie is a senior associate in the Sydney office. Winnie is a projects lawyer with experience in a diverse range of development projects and structured real estate transactions in Australia. Winnie acts for a number of institutional developers, inte... Sector/service Joins: -
Carmen Liang
Senior Associates
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Carmen Liang focuses her practice on corporate and commercial matters, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, mergers and acquisitions, as well as compliance and regulatory issues. Sector/service Joins: -
Terence Liew
Partners
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Terence is an aviation litigation specialist. He has extensive experience of handling the full spectrum of aviation liability work and major aviation accidents and incidents. He regularly advises on liability claims and insurance matters across the a... Sector/service Joins: -
Tom Lightsey
Of Counsel
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Tom is an accomplished energy, maritime and business lawyer with twenty-eight years of professional experience. He is an experienced trial lawyer who has tried over seventy cases to judgment, with success rate in excess of 80%. Sector/service Joins: -
Jessica Liu
Associates
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Jessica specialises in commercial transactions, particularly acquisition, development and disposal as well as corporate advisory. Sector/service Joins: Construction Commodities -
Celia Livesey
Associates
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Celia specialises in construction law, dispute resolution and litigation. She has experience working on complex disputes and litigation in the Supreme and District Courts. Sector/service Joins: -
Hugh Livingstone
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Hugh specialises in shipping, focusing mainly on dispute resolution arising from charterparties, bills of lading and sale contracts as well as management of casualty assignments. Sector/service Joins: -
Kelvin Lo
Associates
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Kelvin qualified as a solicitor in New South Wales (Australia) in 2016 and joined the Construction Group of Holman Fenwick Willan in March 2018. Kelvin was previously a qualified civil engineer and has practical experience in the design, constructio... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Angie Lo
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Angie is a partner in our shipping team in the Hong Kong office and she commutes between our Hong Kong and Shanghai office. Sector/service Joins: -
Nick Longley
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Nick advises on construction and construction insurance law, focusing particularly on arbitration relating to major infrastructure and energy-related projects. Sector/service Joins: -
Alistair Loweth
Senior Associates
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Alistair advises clients on a wide range of marine, commercial and international matters in the offshore and energy sectors. He has extensive practical experience of both transactional and contentious work including more than 5 years working in-hous... Sector/service Joins: -
Richard Lucas
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Richard is the Resident Managing Partner of HFW's Abu Dhabi office and a recognised Defence and infrastructure projects lawyer. Sector/service Joins: -
Ling Lui
Partners
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Ling is an asset finance specialist, with a particular focus on aviation finance and leasing. She has advised banks, operating lessors and airlines on transactions involving cross-border aircraft financings, aircraft leasing and sales/acquisitions, e... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Finance Financial Institutions Shipping -
Richard Mabane
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Richard specialises in commercial litigation, with a particular emphasis on shipping, focusing primarily on disputes arising out of all types of contract including charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, sale and purchase and sale of goods as ... Sector/service Joins: -
Alistair Mackie
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Alistair has been with the firm since 1989. Alistair specialises in infrastructure projects including port and terminals, operations and development, as well as oil and gas projects (particularly FSOs, FPSOs, FSRUs and FLNG). He has worked on a numb... Sector/service Joins: -
William MacLachlan
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William advises a wide variety of companies and financial institutions across the commercial shipping, cruise, ferry and yachting industries on a range of transactional shipping matters. William has particular expertise in ship design, ship building,... Sector/service Joins: -
Laura MacLean
Senior Associates
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Laura is a transactional lawyer advising on a variety of matters including M&A, joint ventures and infrastructure projects in the oil and gas sector. Laura specialises in upstream and midstream oil and gas matters and has experience of working across... Sector/service Joins: -
Kim Macnamara
Associates
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Daniel Mah
Consultants
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Daniel specialises in ship sale and closing. In his previous role with a major shipping bank, Daniel, assisted the bank in building a significant portfolio of escrow accounts handling various types of vessel sale and purchase transactions. Daniel has... Sector/service Joins: -
Guy Main
Senior Managers
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Guy handles, and has considerable experience in dealing with, all aspects of damages in Admiralty claims, particularly collisions. He also assists in General Average matters and practical aspects of chartering and sale & purchase disagreements. Guy's... Sector/service Joins: -
Emma Malkin
Knowledge Management Team
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Emma is a member of the knowledge management team at HFW with a particular focus on the finance practice. Before joining HFW Emma was a PSL with two major international firms and prior to working in knowledge management, she was a fee earner advisin... Sector/service Joins: -
Julie-Anne Mallis
Associates
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Julie-Anne specialises in dispute resolution, primarily focusing on construction, engineering, energy and resources, and major infrastructure matters. She has experience acting for contractors and principals in litigation, arbitration, and adjudicati... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Joseph Malpas
Associates
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Joseph is an Associate in the London office of HFW, specialising in international commercial dispute resolution for clients in the marine and offshore sectors. He has experience of disputes arising from charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding,... Sector/service Joins: Shipping London -
Stephen Marais
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Stephen is a Consultant in our Shanghai office. He specialises in banking and asset finance and has extensive experience of acting on ship finance, commodity and trade finance, and aviation finance transactions. He has spent many years working on str... Sector/service Joins: -
Jason Marett
Senior Associates
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Jason is a Senior Associate in HFW's Geneva office. He is dual qualified in New York and England and has more than 10 years of experience at leading global law firms in London, Milan, Munich and Geneva. Sector/service Joins: -
Jessica Marshall
Associates
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Jessica has experience in advisory work for clients, primarily in the energy, regulatory and competition areas. She has a particular focus on advising clients in the Western Australian electricity industry in relation to wholesale electricity market... Sector/service Joins: -
Kathryn Martin
Senior Associates
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Kathryn works in HFW's Geneva office specialising in dry shipping and international trade disputes covering a range of cargoes but with a particular focus on oil and gas products. Kathryn is experienced in dispute resolution in accordance with London... Sector/service Joins: -
Daniel Martin
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Daniel advises traders, shipowners, freight forwarders, insurers and brokers on a host of regulatory and compliance issues, including international trade sanctions, export controls, customs and anti-corruption legislation. He advises on all aspects o... Sector/service Joins: -
Michael Maxwell
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Dr Michael Maxwell has over 20 years' experience across a diverse client base in regulatory, dispute resolution and international risk matters. Michael’s legal skills are complemented by his scientific research background in Pharmacology and Toxicolo... Sector/service Joins: -
Brendan McCashin
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Brendan specialises in insurance-related litigation as well as non-contentious insurance and reinsurance matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Jemima McDonald
Senior Associates
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Jemima is a Senior Associate in our Abu Dhabi office with a decade of corporate and commercial experience. Jemima has an in-depth knowledge of the defence and security sector having worked in house at Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. She has substan... Sector/service Joins: Energy Abu Dhabi Corporate Projects -
Oliver McGaw
Associates
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Oliver is an associate in HFW's London office, specialising in international commercial dispute resolution. Sector/service Joins: -
Denise McGettrick
Associates
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Denise handles a wide range of business immigration matters, including gaining work authorization and United States permanent residency for valuable foreign nationals and their families. She is a highly experienced attorney and Board Certified in Imm... Sector/service Joins: -
Shelby McGreachan
Associates
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Shelby specialises in international dispute resolution with a strong focus on commercial disputes, international trade, commodities and shipping. She also has experience in construction litigation and insurance matters (predominantly professional ind... Sector/service Joins: -
Alex McKellar
Partners
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Alex advises on risk allocation, prepares contracts and advises on legal issues arising from all contractual aspects of project delivery. Sector/service Joins: -
Bradley Meads
Costs Management Team
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Bradley is a Costs Lawyer (as opposed to a Solicitor) and has dealt with the preparation of bills of costs covering many areas of the law and has attended many costs related hearings throughout the country, both justifying and opposing costs. Sector/service Joins: -
Suzanne Meiklejohn
Senior Associates
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Suzanne is a Senior Associate in HFW's Singapore office where she specialises in dispute resolution between parties in the maritime sector. Suzanne has experience advising and representing parties across a broad spectrum of dispute resolution forums,... Sector/service Joins: Singapore Insurance & Reinsurance Commercial -
Ben Mellors
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Ben is a specialist construction lawyer with over 18 years' experience in the industry. He advises clients on all aspects of international construction and engineering projects, with a particular focus on Southern Europe, the Middle East and East Afr... Sector/service Joins: -
Alex Mendez
Associates
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Alex has built a solid track record of success in the areas of maritime/admiralty, logistics, transportation, labor and employment and corporate litigation. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Wagner Mesquita
Consultants
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Wagner is a Solicitor (England and Wales), as well as a qualified Brazilian and Portuguese lawyer, with an LLM in Maritime Law (Southampton) and Oil & Gas Law (Aberdeen). Wagner has also successfully concluded his exams for membership with the Instit... Sector/service Joins: -
Chris Metcalf
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Chris is a Partner in our shipping practice. Chris's practice spans a wide range of contentious and non-contentious matters in the shipping, offshore and oil and gas sectors, including charter party, COA, bills of lading and other commercial agreemen... Sector/service Joins: -
Jack Metherell
Associates
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Jack specialises in international commercial dispute resolution, with a focus on shipping, offshore and logistics disputes. His clients include shipowners, charterers, commodities traders and their insurers and P&I clubs, for whom he has acted in Hi... Sector/service Joins: -
Paul Miller
Senior Associates
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Paul is a Master Mariner in our London office and forms part of our shipping emergency response team. Paul deals with marine casualties including collisions, groundings, cargo claims and salvage. Before joining HFW, Paul spent the last 6 years worki... Sector/service Joins: -
Brendan Milne
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Brendan has significant experience in workplace law and he has represented some of Australia's largest and best-known organisations in a wide range of contentious and non-contentious workplace relations matters over the last decade. Brendan has a par... Sector/service Joins: -
Sadhvi Mohindru
Associates
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Sadhvi is an Associate in the Energy and Resources practice in Singapore, who specialises in managing international commercial arbitrations. She has considerable experience of representing clients in international arbitrations administered by the Sin... Sector/service Joins: -
Ruth Monahan
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Ruth Monahan is an English-qualified solicitor in our Monaco office. She specialises in commercial dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution in the shipping and commodities sectors. Sector/service Joins: -
Hugo Monro
Associates
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Hugo is an Associate in HFW's shipping team. He specialises in dry shipping disputes with a particular focus on claims under charterparties, COAs, bills of lading and shipbuilding contracts. Sector/service Joins: -
Kim Moore
Senior Associates
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Kim is a construction dispute resolution lawyer specialising in large-scale, complex engineering and construction arbitration, adjudication, conciliation and litigation globally, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Sector/service Joins: -
Thomas Morgan
Senior Associates
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Tom is a senior associate in HFW's London office. His principal area of practice is international commercial dispute resolution with particular focus on both wet and dry shipping matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Rosie Morrison
Associates
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Rosie specialises in international trade and commodities. She has experience of disputes arising from sale of goods contracts, and wider issues arising for commodities clients, such as disputes with advisers. Rosie also has trade finance experience a... Sector/service Joins: -
Tom Morrison
Associates
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Tom is an associate in our Melbourne office who specialises in shipping and insurance and reinsurance sectors. His work spans a variety of maritime issues such as charterparty, bill of lading, and insurance coverage disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
David Morriss
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David advises on shipping, offshore, and trade related issues. His clients are for the most part Indian, and he visits clients in India three or four times each year. David has an in depth understanding of the Indian market. Sector/service Joins: -
Stephanie Morton
Associates
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Stephanie specialises in international dispute resolution, with a particular focus on commercial disputes, commodities, shipping and trade. Sector/service Joins: -
Peter Murphy
Partners
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Peter is a dispute resolution lawyer specialising in shipping, international trade, commodities, energy and resources and general commercial disputes, focusing on international arbitration, litigation, contentious insolvencies, asset recovery and enf... Sector/service Joins: -
Caroline Murphy
Senior Associates
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Caroline is a Legal Director in our London office. Sector/service Joins: -
Rochelle Musgrove
Associates
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Rochelle is a multijurisdictional qualified lawyer with in-depth experience of US, English and EU banking, securities and regulatory law. She has advised investment banks and listed companies on regulatory implementation and compliance matters. This ... Sector/service Joins: -
Patrick Myers
Associates
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Patrick is an Associate in our Geneva office. He advises a diverse client base on a range of trading disputes involving various commodities and jurisdictions, including the High Court and international arbitration. Patrick is particularly active on m... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Kijong Nam
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Kijong is a specialist dispute resolution lawyer focusing on both onshore and offshore construction. He advises on all aspects of a project throughout its life from negotiation, drafting, administration, cancellation or termination of the contra... Sector/service Joins: -
Craig Neame
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Craig specialises in shipping, logistics & supply chain and marine insurance. Craig is particularly well known for his expertise in container shipping, multimodal transport, ports and terminals and project shipments. As well as dispute resolution, Cr... Sector/service Joins: -
Thomas Neighbour
Senior Associates
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Thomas joined the insurance and reinsurance team in the Dubai office in 2014 as an Associate, having qualified as a solicitor in London. Sector/service Joins: -
Richard Neylon
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Richard specialises in shipping and crisis response. Sector/service Joins: -
Brian Ng
Associates
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Brian focuses his practice on corporate and commercial matters, including initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, secondary fund raising transactions, and compliance and regulatory issues. In addition, he also has had experience in matter... Sector/service Joins: -
Rosie Ng
Consultants
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Rosie's main practice comprises of advising policyholders, insurers and reinsurers, and intermediaries on all aspects of insurance and reinsurance dispute resolution. In particular, she advises on issues relating to D&O, professional indemnity, comme... Sector/service Joins: -
Denis Nifontov
Associates
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Denis specialises in transactional shipping law, acting on both commercial and yachting transactions. In particular, Denis has experience dealing with asset finance, vessel sale and purchase transactions, charter agreements, operational advice, corpo... Sector/service Joins: -
Katherine Noble
Senior Associates
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Katherine is a finance lawyer specialising in asset finance with a particular emphasis on ship finance. Katherine acts for financial institutions, export credit agencies and owners on shipping and offshore loans and her work also covers yacht financi... Sector/service Joins: -
Thomas Nork
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Thomas focuses in the areas of admiralty and tort litigation and is an experienced licensed master mariner. His practice areas include Jones Act and Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation personal injury claims, collision and cargo claims, contrac... Sector/service Joins: -
Daniel O'Connell
Senior Associates
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Daniel is an associate in the London office. He focuses mainly on wet shipping matters, including collisions, groundings, salvage, wreck removal, fires, piracy, limitation of liability and coverage issues. He also advises on dry shipping matters incl... Sector/service Joins: -
Thomas O'Kelly
Associates
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Thomas is an Associate in HFW's Brussels office and is qualified at the Brussels Bar. He specialises in aviation and commodities, including contracts, contractual and extra-contractual liability and litigation. Sector/service Joins: -
Roderic O'Sullivan
Consultants
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Roderic is our former Senior Partner and now a consultant, advising senior managers of international transport and energy companies on all transactional aspects of business. He also has experience as a non-executive director of engineering, aviation ... Sector/service Joins: -
Ashleigh Ovland
Knowledge Management Team
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Ashleigh is a member of the knowledge management team at HFW with particular responsibility for aerospace. She focuses on the provision of knowhow support to the group and its clients and is also involved in several firmwide knowledge management and ... Sector/service Joins: -
Isabella Paganin
Associates
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Isabella advises clients in a broad range of workplace related matters. Isabella's communication skills, enthusiasm and knowledge of her clients' business enables her to provide targeted, practical solutions to legal issues. Sector/service Joins: -
Joanne Palin
Senior Associates
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Joanne specialises in dry shipping litigation. Sector/service Joins: -
Barbara Pansadoro
Senior Associates
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Barbara is qualified as a Solicitor of England & Wales and an Avvocato (Rome). Sector/service Joins: -
Anna Papadopoulou
Associates
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Anna is an Associate in the ship finance transactional team based in Piraeus, Greece. Sector/service Joins: -
Kerrie Papamihail
Legal Directors
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Kerrie has significant equity capital markets experience. She advises local and international clients across sectors on ASX and NSX IPOs, spin-offs, backdoor listings, migration listings, capital raisings, listing rule and Corporations Act complianc... Sector/service Joins: -
Danika Parmar
Senior Associates
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Danika is a high performing and experienced employment lawyer able to advise employers on all aspects of the employment lifecycle including, compliance with the Fair Work Act 2009, employee conduct and performance management, change management and re... Sector/service Joins: -
Anne-Marie Pearce
Associates
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Jennifer Pelosi
Associates
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Brian Perrott
Partners
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Having left Cargill as Head of Litigation, Brian returned to private practice and has practiced for many years. Sector/service Joins: -
Isabel Phillips
Associates
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Isabel is an associate in our London office, specialising in regulatory and compliance work linked to international trade. She advises shipping and logistics clients on EU and UK sanctions legislation, export controls, customs matters and anti-briber... Sector/service Joins: -
Chris Philpot
Senior Associates
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Chris specialises in construction and engineering law and has broad experience of dispute avoidance, dispute resolution and trial litigation in the TCC. Sector/service Joins: -
Vivienne Pitroff
Partners
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Vivienne specialises in shipping dispute resolution arising from charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, general average, hull insurance and bunker supplies. She also handles international trade litigation/arbitration in England and foreign ju... Sector/service Joins: -
James Plant
Senior Associates
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James Plant is a Senior Associate in our Kuwait office. He has worked with us as a specialist construction lawyer for over 10 years. He was originally based in London before relocating to Dubai in 2015 and then to our Kuwait office in 2019. Sector/service Joins: -
Aline Poncelet
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Aline is a partner in the Corporate Finance department of HFW's Paris office. Aline has developed over twenty-five years of expertise in private and public M&A, stock exchange transactions, capital issues, IPOs, financial services and corporate gove... Sector/service Joins: -
Nick Poynder
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Nick has been based in our Shanghai office for 14 years and works principally on shipping matters, specialising in charterparty, bill of lading, MOA and shipyard disputes, acting for both Mainland Chinese and overseas clients. He has a strong interna... Sector/service Joins: -
Indra Prawira
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Anna Prentice
Associates
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Anna specialises in construction dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration and adjudications with a particular focus on major projects. Sector/service Joins: -
Judith Prior
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Philip Prowse
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Philip specialises in commodities trade finance and has acted for a wide range of entities up and down the global commodities supply chain, including lenders, borrowers, suppliers, producers, processors, distributors, insurers, logistics operators an... Sector/service Joins: -
Olivier Purcell
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Olivier specialises in international commercial litigation and arbitration, focusing mainly on dispute resolution arising in insurance/reinsurance (coverage, property, professional indemnity, brokers' liability, subrogated claims in particular) and i... Sector/service Joins: -
Georges Racine
Partners
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Georges is a civil and common law trained international business lawyer qualified in Switzerland, England and Wales, France and Canada (Quebec). He has acted as lead counsel in international projects and transactions in over 25 countries worldwide, i... Sector/service Joins: -
Daniel Rainer
Associates
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Dan is an associate in HFW's London office. He practices international commercial dispute resolution with a focus on shipping, insurance and offshore disputes. His shipping experience covers both wet and dry matters, including collision, salvage, gen... Sector/service Joins: -
Amanda Rathbone
Knowledge Management Team
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Amanda is a member of the knowledge management team at HFW with particular responsibility for commodities. She focuses on the provision of knowhow support to the commodities group and its clients, as well as on developing a firmwide training program... Sector/service Joins: -
William Reddie
Senior Associates
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Will advises on a range of corporate and regulatory matters, focussing on clients in the insurance sector. Sector/service Joins: -
Peter Rees Smith
Consultants
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Peter specialises in shipping, focussing mainly on dispute resolution arising from charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, collisions, fire and explosion, salvage, general average, groundings, total loss, towage, offshore and limitation. Peter... Sector/service Joins: -
Alexander Reid
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Alexander has a broad corporate and commercial practice, with a particular focus on energy and resources, transport and technology. He has worked on a number of significant cross-border transactions across a range of sectors, including share and asse... Sector/service Joins: -
Furong Ren
Senior Associates
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Furong Ren is a senior associate of Holman Fenwick Willan Shanghai office. She focuses her practice on capital markets, foreign direct investment, outbound direct investment, supply chain, M&A, real estate and general corporate matters. She has prov... Sector/service Joins: -
Cecilie Rezutka
Associates
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Cecilie is an Associate in HFW's Shipping Department. Her principal area of practice is international commercial dispute resolution arising from charterparties/bills of lading, with a particular focus on "dry" shipping. Sector/service Joins: -
Tony Rice
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Tony heads HFW's global finance group and has over 30 years' specialised ship finance experience (both debt and equity) in London, Greece and Hong Kong. He has represented banks and other financial institutions, insurance companies, PE funds, export ... Sector/service Joins: -
Keith Richardson
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Keith is a Partner in HFW's Asia Aerospace Team. Keith has extensive experience advising a wide range of clients in the aviation industry including insurers, regulators, airlines, helicopter operators, airports, ground handlers and manufacturers. Sector/service Joins: -
Adam Richardson
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Adam is a Partner in the Commodities department of HFW's Singapore office with a focus on international trade, commodities and shipping matters. Adam's area of expertise is international arbitration, both ad hoc and arbitrations under the LMAA, GAFTA... Sector/service Joins: -
Celia Richardson
Associates
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Celia is an associate in the employment, litigation and counselling team, advising employers and employees on contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Celia has experience of litigation both in the High Court and the Employment Tribuna... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Matt Rickett
Associates
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Matt is an Associate in the Aerospace team based in London. His work includes a range of contentious, transactional and advisory work in the aviation sector. Matt's clients include aviation insurers, product manufacturers and airlines. He has experie... Sector/service Joins: -
Gordon Rieck
Associates
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Gordon is an associate in HFW's London office and has recently joined the Commodities team. Sector/service Joins: -
Michael Ritter
Senior Associates
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Mike is a senior associate in the London Shipping Litigation Team having qualified in 2011. He previously spent 2 months seconded to Maersk Line in Copenhagen. Sector/service Joins: -
Emmanuel Roger France
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As a lawyer at the Brussels Bar Association, Emmanuel specialises in both commercial and criminal business litigations, benefitting from over twenty-four years of experience in the field. Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Ross
Associates
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Andrew is an Associate in the construction team at HFW, specialising in dispute resolution and procurement in construction. He trained with a leading international firm in Scotland before re-qualifying in England. Sector/service Joins: -
Eirini Roussou
Senior Associates
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Eirini is an Associate of the firm and Greek-qualified lawyer (dikigoros), specialises in EU Regulatory, EU Competition, State aid and Public Procurement law and litigation. Eirini has a long experience in international arbitration and general litiga... Sector/service Joins: -
Yaolin Ruan
Associates
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Yaolin specialises in shipping, insurance and international trade, with her work experiences in these fields spanning over a decade. Sector/service Joins: -
Jenny Salmon
Senior Associates
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Jenny is a Senior Associate in our London office and speaks Greek. Jenny advises on all aspects of wet and dry shipping law, offshore shipping contracts and marine insurance. Sector/service Joins: -
Freya Salt
Associates
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Freya is an Associate in the shipping litigation team of HFW's Piraeus office of HFW. She acts for shipowners, charterers, and P&I clubs in a range of commercial disputes, including those relating to charterparties, bills of lading and marine insuran... Sector/service Joins: -
Nadia Sanchez
Associates
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Nadia specialises in the transport sector, where she advises a variety of clients including major airlines, insurers and other aerospace entities on a wide range of legal matters, including finance and leases, contract drafting and negotiation, litig... Sector/service Joins: -
Mark Sant
Partners
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With more than 25 years' experience, Mark leads the workplace relations practice of HFW. He is recognised as a market leader in employment, industrial relations and discrimination law. He quickly pinpoints his clients' key issues and delivers practic... Sector/service Joins: -
Evangelos Savvopoulos
Associates
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Evangelos joined HFW in May 2018 as an Associate in the litigation team of the firm's Piraeus office. He previously worked for a British law firm in Piraeus in the shipping litigation department. Sector/service Joins: -
Alex Sayegh
Legal Directors
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Alex specialises in the transactional aspects of the commercial shipping and yachting industries; advising owners, shipyards and financiers on the construction, refit, repair, sale and purchase of various types of vessels. He has a particular focus o... Sector/service Joins: -
Alessio Sbraga
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Alessio is a Partner at the London office of International law firm, HFW. He specialises in international commercial dispute resolution in the marine and offshore sectors, and has over 12 years experience of advising in respect of charterparties, bi... Sector/service Joins: -
Florian Schacker
Associates
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Florian is an Associate in the Shipping team who predominantly advises owners, charterers, managers and their P&I clubs and insurers on all aspects of shipping, international trade and marine insurance. He regularly acts for clients in both litigatio... Sector/service Joins: -
Stephen Schoninger
Special Counsel
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Stephen has significant experience in advising and representing employers across all areas of Australian workplace law. He is a skilled employment litigator with an ability to plainly communicate and practically apply legal principles to assist his c... Sector/service Joins: -
An Schurmans
Senior Associates
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An Schurmans advises clients in contentious and non-contentious issues with respect to contracts, contractual liability and extra-contractual liability. Sector/service Joins: -
Stéphanie Schweitzer
Partners
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Stéphanie qualified as an Avocat in 1997 and joined HFW in 2000. She specialises in international transportation and trade, focusing mainly on ship arrests, collisions and charter party disputes. Sector/service Joins: -
Kate Seaton
Partners
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Kate is an aviation litigation specialist. She handles liability claims and insurance matters as well as non-contentious aviation matters such as contractual liability, conditions of carriage and risk management issues. Sector/service Joins: -
Lucile Sengier
Associates
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Lucile is involved in the resolution of conflicts in both civil and commercial matters. She has also acquired extensive expertise in the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts, particularly in the field of commercial distribution. She assis... Sector/service Joins: -
Michael Sergeant
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Michael is a specialist construction lawyer with over 20 years' experience. He advises on contracts and procurement but his principal focus of work involves helping clients during the course of a project when claims arise and in dealing with formal d... Sector/service Joins: -
Simon Shaddick
Partners
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Simon has significant expertise in shipping and maritime law, offshore energy and international trade. Sector/service Joins: -
Omar Shalaby
Associates
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Omar is an associate in HFW's aerospace team in Dubai. Sector/service Joins: -
Jeremy Shebson
Partners
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Jeremy is HFW's Managing Partner and specialises in Aerospace. Sector/service Joins: -
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Adam Shire
Partners
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Adam specialises in ship and aviation finance; acting for banks and other financial institutions and for owners on finance transactions, including syndicated, bi-lateral and club loans; corporate jet loan and lease transactions; advising on sale, pur... Sector/service Joins: -
Robert Spearing
Senior Managers
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Bob is a Master Mariner with 15 years sea-going experience on board oil and gas tankers. He is a senior manager specializing in all types of marine casualty and has a wealth of experience handling collisions, groundings, salvage, total loss and carg... Sector/service Joins: -
Edward Spencer
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Edward is a partner in the aerospace team. Sector/service Joins: -
Robert Springall
Consultants
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Robert specialises in shipping and trade, focussing mainly on commercial contractual issues and dispute resolution arising from charterparties, bills of lading, casualty investigation (including collisions, fire and explosion, general average, ground... Sector/service Joins: -
Toby Stephens
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Toby is a member of HFW's Global Crisis Management team and specialises in risk and crisis management/emergency response in the marine and energy sectors. Toby's work involves managing major marine and energy disasters including undertaking the initi... Sector/service Joins: -
Robbie Stephenson
Associates
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Robbie advises on a wide range of employment, industrial relations and discrimination laws. He has a strong workplace advisory and dispute management focus and is an experienced litigator. He is sought after for his ability to distil complex legal pr... Sector/service Joins: -
Adam Strong
Partners
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Adam specialises in dispute resolution in the insurance and reinsurance sector. Adam also has experience of investor/state international arbitration and has acted in arbitrations under a number of the common institutional rules including ICSID, ICC,... Sector/service Joins: -
Richard Strub
Partners
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Richard joined HFW as a trainee in 2002 and has risen all the way through the ranks of HFW to Partnership. He is now a Partner in the shipping department in Dubai and also leads the HFW Middle East commodities practice. Sector/service Joins: -
Annabel Strutt
Senior Associates
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Annabel specialises in international dispute resolution, with experience in complex cross-border litigation and arbitration. She focuses on fraud and insolvency matters, her skills in which have been developed in HFW's London and Melbourne offices. ... Sector/service Joins: -
Svetlana Sumina
Associates
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Svetlana is an associate in the Shipping group. Her practice areas focus on shipping, energy, insurance, litigation and commercial transactions. She has worked on disputes arising out of contractual and casualty matters such as charterparties, person... Sector/service Joins: -
Justin Sun
Partners
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Justin specialises in aircraft finance, leasing and trading and mainly advises leasing companies and financial institutions, as well as airlines. He has rich experience in advising clients on complex aircraft leasing and financing transactions. Sector/service Joins: -
Ranjani Sundar
Senior Associates
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Ranjani specialises in contentious matters with a focus on issues relating to the Corporations legislation, insolvency, negligence and contractual disputes. Ranjani has experience in complex litigation matters led in the state Supreme Courts in South... Sector/service Joins: -
Susan Swanson
Of Counsel
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Susan’s practice focuses primarily on insurance coverage matters and insurance-related litigation. Her extensive litigation work includes coverage proceedings, subrogation and recovery suits, commercial matters, construction disputes, and personal in... Sector/service Joins: -
Joey Sze
Associates
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Joey Sze has experience representing companies in matters relating to the initial public offerings on GEM and Main Board of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and general compliance issues. Sector/service Joins: -
Hannah Tacheny
Senior Associates
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Hannah advises companies on a broad range of aviation related matters, including transactional matters such as sale and purchase of aircraft, dry lease, wet lease, sublease and charter agreements. Hannah is also assisting companies on competition and... Sector/service Joins: -
Tien Tai
Partners
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Tien is a banking lawyer specialising in structured trade, commodity finance and ship finance and has been based in the UAE for over nine years. Tien has been involved in a number of domestic and cross border trade finance and project finance matters... Sector/service Joins: -
Victoria Tait
Associates
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Victoria is a commercial litigator who specialises in international dispute resolution, with experience in complex, high value multi-jurisdictional matters involving off-shore trusts and cross-border insolvency procedures. She focuses on fraud and in... Sector/service Joins: -
Lisa Talbot
Senior Associates
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Lisa has a broad litigation background with a focus in the insurance, commercial, energy, construction, aerospace and transportation sectors. She has handled a wide variety of claims involving insurance liability and coverage disputes, personal inju... Sector/service Joins: -
Lee Tam
Of Counsel
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Resident in Hong Kong, Lee joined the aerospace practice in 2008. Lee is a personal injury specialist and advises airlines and airport service providers and their insurers on personal injury claims, employers’ liability, recovery claims and criminal ... Sector/service Joins: -
Louise Tan
Associates
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Louise is an Associate in our Singapore Commodities team with a focus on international trade, commodities and shipping matters. She advises on disputes arising out of physical commodities contracts, drafts and reviews a broad range of such contracts ... Sector/service Joins: -
Jameel Tarmohamed
Senior Associates
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Jameel specialises in structured commodities trade finance. He has experience acting for banks, investors and traders up and down the global commodities supply chain and in many emerging jurisdictions. Sector/service Joins: -
Alison Tasker
Associates
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Alison specialises in insurance and reinsurance disputes, and advises (re)insurers, brokers and policyholders in connection with a wide range of lines of business, including general liability, property damage/business interruption, professional indem... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Jeanie Tate Goodwin
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Jeanie is an experienced civil trial lawyer. Her practice focuses on maritime law, including Jones Act personal injury, vessel status, and cruise ship cases. She also defends energy companies in complex commercial litigation. In addition, she has ... Sector/service Joins: -
Vanessa Tattersall
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Vanessa's practice focuses on contracts and disputes relating to oil and gas and offshore, shipbuilding and ship design, and superyachts, as well as shipping disputes. She acts in complex commercial court disputes and international arbitrations and a... Sector/service Joins: -
Sarah Taylor
Partners
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Sarah specialises in international commodity trade and shipping. Her practice includes advising on trade structures, contract drafting, financing, litigation and arbitration. She is experienced in both physical and derivative commodity contracts. Sar... Sector/service Joins: -
Jessica Taylor
Senior Associates
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Jessica is a Senior Associate in the Shipping Team. She has been with HFW since 2010, joining after several years with another international marine law firm. Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Thomas
Partners
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Andrew is a Partner in the firm's London office and specialises in infrastructure projects including transportation (ports, airports and roads), oil and gas, power (both traditional and renewable) and social (hotels, schools and healthcare) projects ... Sector/service Joins: -
Stephen Thompson
Partners
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Stephen specialises in international trade, with a focus on shipping. Sector/service Joins: -
Mark Thompson
Mariners
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Mark is a Senior Master Mariner in our London office and forms part of our shipping emergency response team. Mark deals with marine casualties, including collisions, groundings, cargo claims and salvage. He is also active in yacht-related crisis man... Sector/service Joins: -
Kristie Tobin
Of Counsel
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Kristie is an experienced trial lawyer whose principal area of practice is commercial litigation, with a particular focus on insurance coverage disputes, personal injury, and construction litigation. She also spends significant time representing ene... Sector/service Joins: -
Jay Tooker
Partners
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Jay specialises in yacht and ship building, yacht and ship sale and purchase, yacht, ship and asset finance, corporate law and international trade. He is a French speaker. Sector/service Joins: -
Adam Topping
Partners
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Mareli Treurnicht
Associates
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Mareli is a South African qualified and admitted attorney with 11 years' experience working at top tier law firms in Johannesburg. Mareli's experience includes high-value corporate and commercial, commercial litigation and corporate tax (including ... Sector/service Joins: -
Zoe Triantafyllou
Associates
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Zoe is an asset finance associate based in London. Zoe advises banks, lessors, export credit agencies and owners on a wide range of transactional matters including debt finance, export credit finance, leasing structures, restructuring, refinancing an... Sector/service Joins: -
Charmaine Tsang
Partners
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Charmaine is an experienced adviser in employment, industrial relations and occupational health and safety matters. Sector/service Joins: Employment -
Christie Tsui
Senior Associates
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Christie works in our Shipping department, where she is primarily involved in shipping and international trade litigation and arbitration, in particular complex charterparty disputes. She works closely with owners, operators and traders in China/Asia... Sector/service Joins: -
Chris Utton
Associates
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Chris is an Associate in the construction team at HFW, specialising in dispute resolution. Sector/service Joins: -
Gavin Vallely
Partners
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Gavin has more than 20 years' experience advising on contentious and non-contentious matters concerning offshore oil & gas installations, commercial shipping and international trade. His work in the oil & gas and shipping sectors includes advising on... Sector/service Joins: -
Dimitri Vassos
Partners
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Dimitri is the managing partner of HFW Greece since 2008 and Deputy Head of the HFW Shipping, Offshore and Logistics Group globally. He is a specialist in shipping and commercial litigation, however he has also significant experience in managing tra... Sector/service Joins: -
Nicola Vickers
Partners
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Nick Viljoen
Associates
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Nick is an Associate in the construction team at HFW, specialising in dispute resolution and advisory in the construction, engineering and mining sectors. He was originally based in South Africa before relocating to London in 2019. Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Vinciullo
Special Counsel
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Andrew specialises in construction and general commercial matters, having assisted clients in resolving commercial disputes and advising on legal and regulatory risks for over 12 years. Andrew regularly appears on behalf of clients in court, arbitra... Sector/service Joins: -
Iris Vögeding
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Iris is dual qualified in French and German law. She specialises in civil liability, commercial litigation and insurance notably in the energy (including renewable energies), pharmaceutical and food sectors. Iris has extensive expertise in complex mu... Sector/service Joins: -
Natasha Voisin
Associates
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Natasha is primarily focused on aviation finance transactions. Her experience includes assisting in transactions where HFW were acting for airlines and lessors on financing and leasing structures, including cross-border aircraft leases and tax-driven... Sector/service Joins: -
Thomas Wait
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Sam Wakerley
Partners
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Sam is an English qualified lawyer and Head of Insurance and reinsurance for HFW in the Middle East. Sector/service Joins: -
Alex Walley
Associates
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Alex specialises in international commercial dispute resolution for clients in the insurance and reinsurance sector. He has acted for both the insurer, insured and intermediaries. Sector/service Joins: -
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Ella has a focus on construction, insurance and dispute resolution. Sector/service Joins: Construction Dispute Resolution Insurance & Reinsurance -
Tom Walters
Partners
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Tom joined HFW in 2002, and qualified in 2004 into the Admiralty Casualty Response team. In addition to a number of high profile salvage and marine litigation cases, Tom has worked on a number of complex technical cases in the offshore oil & gas indu... Sector/service Joins: -
Colin Wannell
Consultants
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Colin Wannell was called to the Bar in 2001 (Inner Temple) having completed his post graduate diploma in professional legal studies at the Inns of Court School of Law. Since call Colin's practising experience was gained as an Employed Barrister worki... Sector/service Joins: -
Rupert Warren
Senior Associates
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Rupert has specialised in insurance and reinsurance since 2008. In that time, he has acted for (re)insurers, brokers and policyholders in relation to disputes arising out of a wide range of lines of business including onshore energy, mining, property... Sector/service Joins: -
Mark Waters
Senior Associates
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Mark is a Senior Associate in the Aerospace team and is based in the London office. He has specialised in aviation law since qualifying in 2008. Sector/service Joins: -
Joanne Waters
Senior Associates
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Joanne works within the Shipping Group and specialises in commercial dispute resolution. Sector/service Joins: -
Nick Watts
Partners
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Jonathan Webb
Partners
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Jonathan is a Partner in our London office specialising in shipping dispute resolution and litigation arising from charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding contracts, ship sale MOAs, financing contracts, ship management and crewing agreements, h... Sector/service Joins: -
Owen Webb
Senior Associates
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Owen is a Senior Associate in the Commodities team and also works closely with the Shipping department. He has broad experience acting on behalf of clients in relation to contentious and non-contentious matters concerning the international sale and c... Sector/service Joins: -
Brian Webb
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Brian is a senior commercial litigator, specialising in complex and high value disputes in the maritime sector arising under charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding and offshore (EPC) contracts, COAs, marine insurance policies and ship sale and... Sector/service Joins: -
Sid Welham
Other
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Sid is HFW's Chief Operating Officer. Sector/service Joins: -
Siri Wennevik
Partners
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Siri Wennevik is a partner in HFW’s Singapore office, who specialises in international shipping and offshore finance and commercial transactions. Sector/service Joins: -
Caroline West
Associates
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Caroline is an Associate in HFW's commodities team. Sector/service Joins: -
Dennis Wheatley
Consultants
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Dennis is an aviation Consultant, working with HFW's aviation team to provide assistance with the aviation insurance markets and product development in the airline and General Aviation sector. Sector/service Joins: -
Justin Whelan
Partners
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Justin is an insurance partner in our Abu Dhabi office. His practice area covers insurance and reinsurance claims, policy coverage advices and subrogated recoveries, largely within the property/energy/casualty and professional indemnity arenas. He ha... Sector/service Joins: -
Cade White
Senior Associates
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Cade handles complex litigation involving the insurance, energy and construction sectors. His practices extends to pipeline disputes, offshore construction matters, product liability matters and construction defects as well as representing property o... Sector/service Joins: -
Nigel Wick
Partners
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Nigel handles a wide range of insurance/reinsurance matters, including those involving marine, offshore energy, mining, property damage/business interruption, product liability, corporate liability and professional indemnity (particularly brokers' ne... Sector/service Joins: -
Max Wieliczko
Partners
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Max Wieliczko has specialised exclusively in construction law since 1987. He advises in relation to all aspects of project procurement and delivery, and specialises in project support and dispute resolution both in court and arbitration around the wo... Sector/service Joins: -
Thomas Willan
Senior Associates
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Thomas specialises in asset finance, with a particular emphasis on ship, superyacht and aviation finance. Sector/service Joins: -
Andrew Williams
Partners
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Andrew has a broad commercial and commodities practice which combines both dispute resolution and transactional / advisory matters. Sector/service Joins: -
Matthew Wilmshurst
Senior Associates
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Matthew works with ship-owners, NVOCs and transport operators, cargo interests and insurers on logistics and supply chain related disputes and projects. Matthew's dispute resolution and litigation practice includes claims arising out of the carriage ... Sector/service Joins: -
Claire Womersley
Partners
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Claire's practice encompasses all aspects of crisis response and ensuing "wet" litigation arising from marine casualties, including jurisdiction, limitation and apportionment of liability, with a particular focus on collisions, groundings and salvage... Sector/service Joins: -
Matthew Wong
Partners
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Matthew focuses his practice on corporate finance, capital markets, foreign direct investments and mergers and acquisitions. His experience includes IPOs and secondary offerings, corporate takeovers and restructurings, private equity and venture capi... Sector/service Joins: -
Tony Wong
Associates
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Tony is a corporate and finance lawyer with experience in advising clients on a range of transactional and commercial matters, including asset finance (shipping and other asset), sale-and-leaseback (shipping), general finance, mergers and acquisition... Sector/service Joins: -
Vivien Wong
Senior Associates
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Vivien is a Senior Associate in our Hong Kong office. Sector/service Joins: -
Roger Wong
Consultants
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Roger focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate/commercial and company secretarial matters. Roger's experience includes mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, matters concerning the Hong Kong Companies Ordinance and company secr... Sector/service Joins: -
Paul Woodley
Partners
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Paul is a Partner in the Aerospace Team based in London. He qualified in 2009 and is an Associate and Chartered Insurance Practitioner of the Chartered Insurance Institute (ACII). Paul spent five years working for HFW in the Singapore office before r... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Sophy Woodward
Special Counsel
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Sophy has 15 years experience acting on complex disputes, particularly contested insurance claims. She regularly acts for mining companies in liability, D&O and PD/BI insurance coverage disputes. She also represents contractors in construction proje... Sector/service Joins: -
Anthony Woolich
Partners
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Anthony specialises in competition law including regarding merger control and restructuring, EU law, data protection/privacy, public procurement, sanctions, export control, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, regulation, State aid, commercial contract... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Michael Wray
Partners
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Michael's practice focuses on aviation, marine and energy, commercial litigation, environmental, insurance coverage, and transactional matters. Having handled cases in multiple jurisdictions, Michael has handled numerous cases from inception through ... Sector/service Joins: -
Kirsten Wright
Associates
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Kirsten specialises in international commercial dispute resolution, with a focus on advising clients acting in the shipping, logistics and marine insurance sectors. She acts for a range of ship owners, charterers, logistics companies and insurers inv... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Pansy Wu
Senior Associates
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Pansy joined HFW in 2007 after she qualified as a Hong Kong solicitor. She advises airlines, airports and airport service providers and their Insurers in relation to aviation and wider transportation disputes and commercial matters. She specialises i... Sector/service Joins: -
Nancy Yang
Associates
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Nancy is a corporate lawyer with experience in advising clients on a range of transactional and commercial matters, including general corporate matters, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate finance. She advises on general regulatory requirements... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Corporate Commercial -
Evangeline Yeo
Senior Associates
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Evangeline specialises in shipping and construction dispute resolution including litigation, arbitration, mediation and adjudications. Sector/service Joins: -
Donna Yeum
Associates
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Donna is an Associate who is passionate about property law. Throughout her career, she has consistently built extensive experience in advising on various aspects of property law including, residential, commercial and industrial property acquisitions... Sector/service Joins: -
Patrick Yeung
Partners
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With over 25 years of experience, Patrick is a specialist in shipping, focussing mainly on dispute resolution arising from charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, fire and explosion, personal injury, total loss and limitation and also advises ... Sector/service Joins: -
Stephanie Yu
Senior Associates
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Stephanie joined Holman Fenwick Willan in September 2011 and upon completion of her training contract, joined the Construction team now led by Martin Downey. Sector/service Joins: -
Catherina Yurchyshyn
Associates
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Catherina is an associate in HFW's London office and a solicitor-advocate. Catherina's practice focuses on international dispute resolution, international trade and commodities. Sector/service Joins: -
Jean-Marc Zampa
Partners
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Harry Zhang
Associates
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Harry is a dual-qualified lawyer admitted to practice in Australia and People’s Republic of China with experience in property acquisition, development and disposal as well as corporate advisory. Sector/service Joins: -
Zohar Zik
Partners
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Zohar is a Partner in our aviation department with particular expertise in finance and leasing transactions, complex commercial contracts and regulatory matters. Sector/service Joins: - Sorry, your search returned no results
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“UK261”? Passenger rights after the Brexit transition period
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Although the UK formally left the European Union a year ago, air carriers will know that European Union Regulation (EC) 261/2004 on denied boarding, cancellation and long delay (EU261) has continued to have force in the UK throughout 2020 as though B... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace London -
HFW Achieves Top-Tier Rankings In The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been ranked as a leading practice in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific, which recognises the region's best law firms. HFW achieved 24 practice rankings and 15 individual rankings across Asia Pacific includi... Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific Hong Kong Melbourne Perth Shanghai Singapore Sydney Shipping -
Inclusion of shipping in the EU Emissions Trading System: current landscape, perspective and potential impact
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The EU is moving ahead with plans to include the shipping industry in the EU Emissions Trading System. The necessary legislation could come into force as soon as 1 January 2022 and has the potential to impact all parties in the physical transport ch... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Changes to reporting on ultimate beneficial ownership in the UAE
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Cabinet Resolution No. 58 of 2020 on the Regulation of the Procedures of the Real Beneficiary (the Resolution) was published on 27 August 2020 and came into force the following day. It repealed the previous law on the regulation of beneficial owner p... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Middle East Abu Dhabi Dubai -
Commodities Case Update, January 2021
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Happy New Year! We are delighted to present the tenth Commodities Case Update. The update provides a summary of some of the key cases relevant to the commodities sector from the last six months. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
HFW's Daniel Martin Named a 'Power Player' for International Trade and Sanctions
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HFW partner Daniel Martin has been named a 2020 Power Player for International Trade and Sanctions by Financier Worldwide. Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
European Data Protection Board publishes draft guidance on transfers of personal data outside the EEA - No one size fits all solution
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On 10 November 2020, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its highly anticipated draft Recommendations 01/2020 on measures that supplement transfer tools to ensure compliance with the EU level of protection of personal data1 (the Guida... Sector/service Joins: Data Protection EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
HFW Continues To Expand Global Litigation Practice With Dubai Partner Hire
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HFW has continued to expand its global litigation practice with the hire of partner Nick Braganza. Sector/service Joins: Fraud and Insolvency Dubai Middle East -
Insurance Bulletin, December 2020
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In this edition: Covid-19 judgment update: South Africa and Australia; Covid-19 policy review: FCA deadline passes; SMCR and Coronavirus – Employers granted additional time to comply with the Certification Regime and Conduct Rules Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Financial Services Regulation -
New year, new dawn for English/EU disputes: What does this mean for you?
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After the year we have all had, it is probably true to say that most, if not all of us, will be pleased to welcome in 2021. However, with it comes the end of the Brexit Transition period, and consequently the end of various UK/EU jurisdiction, servi... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Dispute Resolution London -
Construction Bulletin, December 2020
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Welcome to our end of year round-up of key construction law Developments from 2020. This bulletin reviews the eight most interesting, or noteworthy developments of the year, with a particular focus on the UK market. Sector/service Joins: Construction London Dispute Resolution Projects -
HFW again recognised as a leading international firm in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a leading firm in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2021, which ranks the region's top lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW wins Maritime Law Award at Seatrade Maritime Awards Asia 2019
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been named the Maritime Law Award winner at the Seatrade Maritime Awards Asia 2019 – one of the region's most prestigious industry awards. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Cyber Risk Adaptability and Responsibility
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For years, service providers to the shipping industry have warned of the industry’s increased reliance on cyber technologies and their potential vulnerabilities. Yet, until recently, this perceived threat had not been addressed by lawmakers and, to s... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Cyber Security -
Comprehensively Yachts - HFW Yachting Industry Briefing
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The HFW yachting team has been busy throughout 2020 and it has been encouraging to note the continued flow of new design contracts, new construction projects and the large number of second-hand sale and purchase transactions, all of which evidence th... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Workplace Relations Update (Australia), December 2020
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Look out for some big changes to the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) in 2021.On 9 December 2020, the Coalition Government introduced the much anticipated Fair Work Amendment (Supporting Australia's Jobs and Economic Recovery) Bill 2020. The Bill must now ma... Sector/service Joins: Employment Australia Asia Pacific -
Collateral management and stock monitoring agreements - The cast iron solution for lenders?
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2020 has been a year of upheaval and no less so than in transactional commodity finance, which has witnessed a series of major frauds. The significant losses suffered have caused some lenders to exit the sector completely and others to refocus on spe... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Geneva -
HFW's Paul Dean Again Named Among Most Influential People In Shipping
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HFW's Global Head of Shipping Paul Dean has once again been named by Lloyd's List as one of the 100 most influential people in the maritime industry and one of the market’s top 10 lawyers. Sector/service Joins: Shipping London -
10 Key Questions to Consider When Investing in Africa
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Africa: a land of promise and peril. A continent ripe with opportunities and challenges. From a legal perspective, the second largest continent in the world can raise interesting issues due to its mosaic of legal systems at different stages of d... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Geneva Africa International Trade Regulation Finance Commodities Energy Shipping -
COA Pack
Guides
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Welcome to the first edition of our "COA Pack". Surprisingly, notwithstanding their importance, a certain “legal mystery” surrounds Contracts of Affreightment (or "COAs" as they will be referred to in this Pack). Sector/service Joins: Shipping Commodities -
Guides
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Published on an ad hoc basis, these guides are designed to answer questions and clarify issues affecting clients' businesses. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW Wins Maritime Law Firm Of The Year At ALB Hong Kong Awards
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been named Maritime Law Firm of the Year at the ALB Hong Kong Law Awards 2020. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Hong Kong Asia Pacific -
Optics and Context in Arbitral Appointments: A Review of the UK Supreme Court Judgment in Halliburton Company v Chubb Bermuda Insurance Ltd
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In its landmark decision the UK Supreme Court has confirmed and clarified the obligation on arbitrators to make disclosures in overlapping multiple appointment situations to avoid doubts as to their impartiality while highlighting and distinguishing ... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Dispute Resolution -
HFW Launches New Gender Equality Strategy, Ambitious Targets
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has launched a new gender equality strategy, backed by a series of ambitious targets that include women accounting for at least 40% of all senior lateral hires and internal promotions over the next three years. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW Represents LMAA In Landmark UK Supreme Court Case
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW represented the London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA) in the landmark UK Supreme Court case of Halliburton v Chubb. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Commodities Dispute Resolution -
Litigation funding putting wind in your sails - Third-party funding for the shipping industry
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Covid-19 has undoubtedly created challenging conditions for most sectors of the economy. The shipping industry has been hit hard by a global fall in demand, by logistical delays, quarantines and movement restrictions and a breakdown in supply chains.... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Dispute Resolution -
Indonesia: Omnibus Law and Regulatory Updates in the Indonesian Mining Industry
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On November 2, 2020, the President of the Republic of Indonesia ratified and enacted the Indonesia Omnibus Law with the Law Number 11 of 2020 on Job Creation (Omnibus Law). The Omnibus Law comprehensively amends various sectoral laws with the aim of ... Sector/service Joins: Energy Mining Asia Pacific Commodities -
With new safety laws imminent, WA records its first gross negligence workplace safety conviction
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The Work Health and Safety Act 2020 (WHS Act) (passed by Parliament on 10 November 2020) will replace all current safety legislation in WA and introduces the criminal offence of industrial manslaughter into WA law for the first time. Sector/service Joins: Australia Asia Pacific Construction Employment -
Seafarers' Continuous Service – Ships Calling At Australian Ports - Update
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In a briefing in October 2020, we set out AMSA's special extension to the maximum period of time that seafarers could serve on board ships calling Australian ports1. In short, due to the unique circumstances facing international shipping during the ... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Employment Australia Asia Pacific -
The sustainable loan market and the commodities sector: what is it, what's new and what's to come
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In the second part of our series on responsible business, sustainable finance and ESG, we focus on the sustainable loan market: we look at the key loan structuring issues, the latest guidance on green and sustainability linked loans, ask what is... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Geneva Finance -
Insurance Bulletin, November 2020
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In this edition: FCA reports on general insurance pricing practices – changes are coming; The FCA indicators for assessing fitness and propriety (Senior Managers and Certification Regime); COVID-19 Business Interruption Losse... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
Are you entitled to the full range of Part 36 benefits, if you beat your own settlement offer? The Court of Appeal says… yes!
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The English Court of Appeal has given welcome clarity on whether claimants who beat their own Civil Procedure Rule (CPR) Part 36 settlement offer at trial are entitled to the full range of Part 36 benefits; the good news for claimants is that the Cou... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Implementation of the Singapore Convention on Mediation in Saudi Arabia
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On 5 May 2020, Saudi Arabia ratified the United Nations Convention on the International Settlement Agreements Resulting from Mediation, also known as the "Singapore Convention on Mediation" ("the Convention"), which will enter into force in Saudi Ara... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
UNIDROIT Draft Space Assets Protocol
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UNIDROIT is an international organisation comprising 63 Member States, based in Rome. Its remit is to “study needs and methods for modernising, harmonising and coordinating private and, in particular, commercial law as between States and groups of St... Sector/service Joins: Space Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution London -
Eligible for ship leasing tax concessions in Hong Kong? Check here.
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On 19 June 2020, the Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Ship Leasing Tax Concessions) Ordinance 2020 introduced a concessionary profit tax regime for ship leasing businesses. While the scheme is now more familiar, it is not without its complexities. Are you... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Hong Kong Asia Pacific -
HFW Helps BIMCO Draft Industry's First Standard Contract For Autonomous Shipping
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW is helping shipping association BIMCO draft the industry's first standard contract for the operation of autonomous vessels. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW recognised as a leading international firm in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2020
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a leading firm in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2020, which ranks the region's top lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific -
HFW Continues Greater China Transactional Expansion With Major Team Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing transactional offering in Greater China with the hire of a nine-lawyer corporate finance team, including partner Matthew Wong. Sector/service Joins: Corporate Hong Kong Asia Pacific -
HFW Boosts Fast Growing Transactional Offering With Senior Hong Kong Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing transactional offering with the hire of senior corporate finance partner Wing Cheung. Sector/service Joins: Hong Kong Asia Pacific -
HFW Again Ranked By The Times Among UK's Best Law Firms
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has again been ranked by The Times among the UK's best law firms. Sector/service Joins: London -
Soft Commodities: Buyer beware - “as is” means “as is”. But should seller beware, too?
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Sale of goods contracts typically feature carefully drafted quality specifications, so that both parties understand clearly what quality of goods is to be delivered. However sometimes, goods are sold on an “as is” basis. This places the risk as to qu... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Geneva -
HFW Signs UK Armed Forces Covenant
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Global, sector-focused law firm has signed the UK Armed Forces Covenant to highlight its ongoing commitment to treating all individuals with fairness and respect. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW Aero - Edition 1 - November 2020
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Welcome to the first edition of HFW Aero. Each quarter, we will bring you cutting-edge comment and insight from some of the industry’s leading figures, and share our thoughts on the key legal, regulatory and commercial issues that should be on your r... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Indonesia: Omnibus Law – Changes and Possible Impact on the Indonesia Shipping Sector
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On November 2, 2020, the President of the Republic of Indonesia ratified and enacted the Indonesia Omnibus Law by the Law Number 11 of 2020 on Job Creation (Omnibus Law). The Omnibus Law comprehensively amends various sectoral laws with the aim of im... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Singapore Asia Pacific -
HFW Extends Charity Partnership With The Mission To Seafarers
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has extended its partnership with international maritime charity The Mission to Seafarers (MtS) until 2022. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Boosts Market-Leading Shipping Practice With Senior Partner Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its market-leading shipping practice with the hire of senior partner Paolo Ghirardani. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Brexit and commodities derivatives regulation: Recent developments and their impact on commodities businesses
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Negotiations for a post-Brexit trade deal now seem likely to go down to the wire. With the end of the transition period fast approaching and increased warnings of a slim or no deal, the future regulatory landscape for commodities businesses remains u... Sector/service Joins: Commodities EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Shanghai court upholds validity of arbitration agreement seated in PRC and administered by a foreign arbitration institution
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A recent decision of a Shanghai court that parties to an arbitration seated in the PRC will be permitted to have their dispute administered by a foreign arbitral institution is the latest move towards relaxing restrictions on foreign arbitral institu... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Asia Pacific Shanghai -
UAE Corporate and Commercial Bitesize Bulletin, Issue 4, October 2020
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In this issue we will be covering the recent changes to employment laws in the UAE. Sector/service Joins: Middle East Dubai Abu Dhabi Corporate Commercial -
Cyber Risks in Commodities Sale Contracts – Misdirected Payment
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The risk of payments under a sale contract being fraudulently diverted is a key concern for commodities traders. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Cyber Security Fraud and Insolvency -
Arbitration Insights: Australia. Multi-tiered Dispute Resolution Clauses
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In our last briefing, we provided some drafting tips for an effective arbitration clause. In this briefing, we take it one step further and talk about multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Australia Asia Pacific -
HFW continues to grow its Australian construction practice with hire of specialist construction team
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW continues its growth in Australia with the partner hire of construction specialist Antony Riordan and a team of four, including a senior associate, two associates and a legal assistant, from Colin Biggers & Paisle... Sector/service Joins: Construction Australia Asia Pacific -
HFW recognised as a Leading Firm in Chambers UK 2021 guide
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a leading firm in the Chambers UK 2021 guide, which ranks the region's top lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: -
Responsible business, sustainable finance and ESG
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Over the past few years, environmental protection and human rights have moved centre stage in political and economic arenas. The development of a business market which is sensitive to both human rights and impact on the environment is now a reco... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Geneva Finance -
English Supreme Court confirms principles for determining the governing law of an arbitration agreement
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In its recent judgment, the English Supreme Court has given welcome clarification on how to determine the governing law of an arbitration agreement, in the absence of an express choice of law. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
ESG at the LME
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In August 2020, the London Metal Exchange (LME) issued a discussion paper on "LME Sustainability"1, a new and wide-ranging initiative proposing, among other things, new contracts and a new spot trading platform. According to the exchange, LME Sustain... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Arbitration Insights: Australia. Drafting Arbitration Clauses
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The second briefing in our Arbitration Insights series provides a simple guide to drafting arbitration clauses. Arbitration clauses are often the last clauses to be negotiated once all the other terms are agreed. Drafted at sunset, negotiators are bo... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Australia Asia Pacific -
Changes in the construction industry in WA? New security of payment legislation introduced into Parliament - Part 3
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As noted in our previous briefings,1, 2 the Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Bill 2020 Consultation Draft (Consultation Draft) was released for comment earlier this year. If enacted, this legislation will replace WA’s cur... Sector/service Joins: Construction Australia Asia Pacific -
Cryptoasset businesses under regulatory scrutiny? 5 steps businesses can take now
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The FCA is maintaining its longstanding focus on financial crime. Cryptoasset businesses can expect to be subject to increased regulatory scrutiny and should take action now to prepare for this. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
HFW Helps Client Deliver First Ever Remote Evidence From Vessel At Sea In Historic Collision Case
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW successfully acted for the owners of a vessel involved in a high-value collision case that saw evidence provided remotely from on board a vessel at sea in a historic first for the UK Admiralty Court. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Dispute Resolution -
Arbitration Insights: Australia. Introduction to Arbitration Regime in Australia and Approach of Australian Courts to Arbitration Agreements
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Over the past ten years, there has been a substantial change in the arbitration landscape which has both strengthened domestic arbitration and has allowed Australia to position itself as a credible alternative to the major arbitration centres in Asia... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Australia Asia Pacific -
Seafarers' Continuous Service – Ships Calling Australian Ports
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We continue to see ships calling at Australian ports with crew on board that have served lengthy periods at sea, in some cases, seafarer contracts have been extend well past 12 months' continuous service on board. The issue of prolonged time at sea, ... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Australia Asia Pacific Ports & Terminals -
HFW achieves top-tier rankings in The Legal 500 UK
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a leading practice in the 2020-21 edition of The Legal 500 UK, a guide to the country’s best lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: London -
Be careful when and why you terminate! Time of the essence, repudiation and renunciation
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In Alegrow S.A v Yayla Agro Gida Ve Nak A.S.1, the English Commercial Court varied and then remitted an award back to the GAFTA Appeal Board (the ‘Board’). It concluded that the Board had made an error of law in finding the claimant in repudiatory br... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
UAE Corporate and Commercial Bitesize Bulletin, Issue 3, October 2020
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In this issue we will be covering the recent changes to the legislative regime in the Abu Dhabi Global Market. Sector/service Joins: Corporate Commercial Middle East -
Autonomous Ships: A Pandemic Vaccine?
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Since our article in January of this year1, we have been gripped by the COVID-19 global pandemic. Despite this there have been a number of developments in the autonomous vessel space. In this briefing we discuss the impact of the pandemic on shipping... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Logistics -
In Memory of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A Champion for Equality
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 87. Ginsburg spent a lifetime flourishing in the face of adversity and doubt. She was a legal, cultural a... Sector/service Joins: USA & Canada -
Proposals on reforms to the English Disclosure Pilot are announced
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As you may have heard, the long-awaited proposed changes to the English Disclosure Pilot (Pilot) were published this month. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
UAE Corporate and Commercial Bitesize Bulletin, Issue 2, September 2020
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In this issue we will be covering the recent changes to the data protection laws in the UAE. Sector/service Joins: Corporate Commercial Data Protection -
Getting the Deal Through - Ship Finance 2020
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Ship Finance contains international insights into all areas of finance and vessel ownership affecting the international shipping industry. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Commercial Court rules on what damage is liquidated by demurrage
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On 7 September, in the Eternal Bliss1, Andrew Baker J sitting in the Commercial Court division of the High Court of England & Wales delivered one of the most significant judgments of recent years concerning the construction of charterparties which wi... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Life Beyond the Pandemic - A Business Perspective
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As the world entered the start of the next decade, few could have imagined let alone foreseen the way in which 2020 would unfold. From the early stages of infection, the speed in which the coronavirus pandemic erupted across the globe resulted in unp... Sector/service Joins: -
Brexit and REACH: What businesses need to know
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The end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 is fast approaching. A ‘no-deal’ scenario – that is, no agreement between the UK and EU on trade and other matters – looks increasingly possible. What does this mean for chemicals regulation... Sector/service Joins: Commodities International Trade Regulation -
UAE Corporate and Commercial Bitesize Bulletin, Issue 1, September 2020
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We are delighted to introduce the HFW UAE Corporate and Commercial Bitesize Bulletin. Over the next few weeks we will be issuing updates covering a quick snapshot of legislative changes in the UAE over recent months. In this first issue we will be co... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Commercial -
HFW Signs Yacht Industry Diversity and Inclusion Pledge
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has signed a pledge committing it to help improve diversity and inclusion within the yacht industry. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Official Mentor to Starburst Aviation Tech Accelerator Program
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Starburst is the world's only accelerator solely dedicated to aviation technology, with a focus on challenge areas shared by airlines, airports, ground handlers, maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) companies and other connections to the aviation e... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
HFW moves to new Sydney premises to accommodate growth
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Global law firm HFW is relocating to new premises in Sydney to make room for a growing number of staff. HFW's new Sydney office is located on Level 10, 126 Phillip Street, Sydney. The Norman Foster-designed tower offers some of the largest column-fre... Sector/service Joins: Australia Asia Pacific -
Overview of debt enforcement against companies in Switzerland and freezing orders over Swiss bank accounts
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Switzerland is renowned as a financial centre. At the end of 2018, there were 248 domestic and foreign banks in Switzerland (foreign banks representing almost 40% of them), with an estimated CHF 6,943.5 billion assets under management. Almost half of... Sector/service Joins: Geneva Dispute Resolution Financial Institutions -
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Sanchez v. Smart Fabricators – Seaman Status Whiplash or Groundwork for Future En Banc Course Correction?
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We previously reported on the Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Sanchez v. Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC where the court took up the issue of Jones Act seaman status, holding that a welder working aboard jacked-up offshore drilling rigs was not a sea... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Dispute Resolution -
Client Guide: EU Conflict Minerals Regulation 2021
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From 1 January 2021 EU importers of certain minerals and metals will have to comply with the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation (CMR). This guide introduces the CMR to actors in the commodities space and answers some frequently asked questions. Sector/service Joins: Commodities EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Construction Bulletin - September 2020
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In this issue: The Future Is Virtual - Why Virtual Hearings Should Become the Go-to Platform for Adjudications, Arbitrations and Short Hearings; Back-to-back Payment Provisions in the UAE – Are They Always Enforceable?; Merits Review: New Austra... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Construction Bulletin March 2020
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In this issue: Court Limits Restitutionary Remedies Where a Principal Repudiates a Contract; Company in Liquidation Can Pursue Adjudication in Narrow Circumstances; Adjudication for the Offshore Sector; New Bill to Tackle Unfair Payment in the UK; Li... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Changes to Construction Contracts in WA? The Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Bill 2020 Part 2
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As noted in our previous article1 that addressed the proposed changes to the adjudication procedure in Western Australia, the Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Bill 2020 (the Draft SOP Bill) was recently released for comment. T... Sector/service Joins: Construction Australia Asia Pacific -
Sanctions as a Tool to Protect Human Rights at Sea
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In July 2020 the UK introduced the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 (“the Regulations”). Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Acts On Sale Of Almost Half Of Swiss Maritime Fleet
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has acted on the sale of almost half of the entire Swiss maritime fleet. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Geneva -
Changes to Adjudication in WA? The Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Bill 2020 Part 1
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There is a lack of uniformity across Australia concerning the legislative regimes that deal with payments in the construction industry. The regimes are divided into what are referred to as the “East Coast” model (NSW, Vic, ACT, Tas, SA and QLD) and t... Sector/service Joins: Construction Australia Asia Pacific -
Termination: Contractual Rights to Terminate Curtailed
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New legislation has been introduced in the UK which restricts the rights of parties to construction contracts to terminate or even suspend work. This means that even if your contract says you can terminate or suspend – for example, for non-payment – ... Sector/service Joins: Construction London -
End of Brexit transition period: Action items
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The transition period, during which EU law continues to apply to and in the UK following its exit from the EU on 31 January 2020, is due to expire on 31 December 2020. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
The Maritime Arbitration Universe in Numbers: London remains ever dominant
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For the third consecutive year, our analysis of global maritime arbitration case statistics shows that London continues to dominate as the most trusted arbitration centre for resolving international shipping disputes. Sector/service Joins: Shipping London -
Transitioning to new border arrangements: EU-UK trade from 1 January 2021
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The UK Government has revealed the border controls that will apply on the UK border between the UK and the European Union following the end of the Brexit transition period (Transition Period), anticipated to be on 1 January 2021. This follows its ann... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory London -
HFW Research: London Has Over 80% Share Of Global Maritime Arbitration Market
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Research by global, sector-focused law firm HFW has found that London continues to dominate the market for international maritime arbitration, accounting for more than 80 percent of all cases globally. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
CMA CGM LIBRA - Supreme Court to consider shipowners’ seaworthiness and due diligence obligations
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The Supreme Court recently granted Owners permission to appeal in respect of the Court of Appeal’s decision in the CMA CGM LIBRA case. The appeal will raise issues concerning the scope of a shipowner’s obligation under Article III rule 1(a) of the Ha... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
The Potential UK-Australia free trade agreement: reviving old friendships may bring new opportunities
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Amidst the unchartered waters of the post-Brexit world, the UK reaches out to old friends and allies to revive old and solid relationships, on new terms this time. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Asia Pacific International Trade Regulation London Australia -
Client Guide: Litigation in Scotland. What you should know: 10 Key Features
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Disputes arising in the course of trade are, for most, a commercial reality, and litigation remains an effective tool to enforce rights, recover damage, and resolve disputes. It is therefore important for companies operating in Scotland to understand... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
The English Supreme Court’s landmark decision reflects on reflective loss
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In a landmark decision that departs from nearly 40 years’ of case law, the Supreme Court has unanimously ruled1 that the reflective loss principle does not stifle claims by unsecured creditors. This therefore means that, as in this case, shareholders... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution London -
International data transfers from the EEA and UK: Take care
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The Schrems II judgment, handed down by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on 16 July 20201, is significant for any organisation which currently transfers personal data outside of the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom ... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory London -
Commodities Case Update, July 2020
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We are delighted to present the ninth Commodities Case Update, with a bumper edition for Summer 2020. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Collateral management agreements, pledges and security: how can a lender protect itself?
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Taking security over goods stored with a party which does not have title to them is common in commodities financing. It can give rise to a complex set of contractual and non-contractual rights and liabilities and lenders must be careful to ensure tha... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
HFW Advises Northern Offshore Group On Complex Double Vessel Purchase And Financing
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has advised Northern Offshore Group (NOG) on the purchase, on-sale and leaseback financing of two crew transfer and windfarm support vessels. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
United States Supreme Court holds that Non-Signatories to An Agreement can Compel Arbitration under the New York Convention
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In a unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court in GE Energy Power Conversion France SAS, Corp. v. Outokumpu Stainless USA, LLC, 18-1048, 2020 WL 2814297 (2020), resolved a circuit court split, holding that the equitable estoppel doctrine ap... Sector/service Joins: Energy USA & Canada Houston Dispute Resolution -
Insurance Disputes Committees “IDC”
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Given the increase in insurance disputes in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, it is time to circle around with the dispute mechanisms in the Kingdom. Unlike certain Common law jurisdictions, KSA has a dispute procedure which is given over specifically to ... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Riyadh Middle East -
Liberia Updates its Corporate Legislation
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The Republic of Liberia recently announced significant revisions to its Business Corporation Act (BCA) and its Limited Liability Company Act (LLC Act). The purpose for the update was to more closely align the nation’s laws with international standard... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Insurance Bulletin, July 2020
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Sulphur emissions in Northern Europe: Five years on, June 2020
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Back in June 2017 we published an update1 on compliance with sulphur oxide (SOx) emissions limits in the Baltic Sea Emissions Control Area, where since 1 January 2015 vessels have not been permitted to burn bunkers with more than 0.10% m/m SOx conten... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
The Shipping Law Review - Seventh Edition
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The Shipping Law Review (seventh edition) is an important legal book for the shipping sector, edited again by HFW. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
English Court of Appeal decision: US secondary sanctions are a “mandatory provision of law”
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In Lamesa Investments Limited v Cynergy Bank Limited1, the English Court of Appeal has confirmed that US secondary sanctions fall within the common wording “mandatory provision of law” and that Cynergy was complying with them when it withheld payment... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Service of proceedings in lockdown
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We are starting to see a number of cases coming through the English courts dealing with procedural issues caused by Covid-19. The latest of which addresses the issue of service of proceedings on a business premises during lockdown, and gives a clear ... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution London -
The Shipping Law Review - Sixth Edition
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The Shipping Law Review (sixth edition) is an important legal book for the shipping sector, edited again by HFW. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
UK goes it alone: The UK’s new human rights sanctions regime
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The UK’s exit from the European Union will allow the UK to pursue its own sanctions policy. This development has been hailed by politicians, with Dominic Raab announcing measures targeting those responsible for or involved in serious violations of hu... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Court Ordered Notice in Relation to Claims in Certain Property in Commercial Court Proceedings (In the matter of Gerald Martin Smith, CL-2017-000323)
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Pursuant to paragraph 11 of the order of Mr Justice Foxton dated 20 May 2020 (the "Order"), the Joint Liquidators of Unicorn Worldwide Holdings Limited (in liquidation) and others (the 21st to 23rd Respondents), has instructed its lawyers, HFW, to po... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW, KPMG and Augusta Ventures Join Forces to Support Businesses Impacted by Covid-19
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HFW, KPMG and Augusta Ventures are pleased to announce a non-exclusive project to assist companies facing problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Case updates
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These case updates are designed to provide a round-up of English Court cases relevant to commodities, construction or marine insurance, including hull, war and cargo risks. We also seek to include other cases which may be of interest in terms of proc... Sector/service Joins: -
High Court issues barring order under CPR 19.8A and finds rule extends to constructive trusts
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In a recent High Court case, HFW (and a number of other firms) acted on behalf of a group of applicants who were successful in persuading the court to utilise its CPR powers to actively manage complex fraud and insolvency litigation. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution RESTRUCTURING HUB -
Supreme Court blesses the use of adjudication by insolvency practitioners in construction disputes
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In a clear and unanimous judgment,1 the Supreme Court has endorsed the use of adjudication by insolvency practitioners as a means of resolving disputes arising under construction contracts. In doing so, the Supreme Court has provided a timely reminde... Sector/service Joins: Construction Fraud and Insolvency Dispute Resolution RESTRUCTURING HUB -
Insurance Bulletin, June 2020
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In this edition: Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration; HFW publications and events Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW) – toward a potentially increased liability
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On 11 June 2020, the new Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 No 7 (NSW) (the Act) was enacted. Sector/service Joins: Construction Australia Asia Pacific -
International Arbitration Passport 2019
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Overhaul of Australia’s foreign investment regime proposed
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The Federal Government has proposed the most comprehensive reforms to Australia’s foreign investment review framework in more than 20 years. Sector/service Joins: Construction Asia Pacific -
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Bunker supply contracts – key considerations for the buyer
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Regardless of whether a buyer purchases fuel directly from physical suppliers or via brokers or traders and whether sale is under a global framework agreement or ad hoc on a port by port basis, a common feature is that the seller’s terms generally pr... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
The New Commercial Court Law - Highlights of the new law
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The new Commercial Court Law (the Law) issued by Royal Decree No. (M / 93) dated 15/08/1441 AH is considered a “quantum leap” in the development of the commercial judiciary in the Kingdom. It includes provisions that concern investors, traders and th... Sector/service Joins: Commercial Middle East Riyadh -
Australian parliamentary inquiry into the class action industry
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Class actions financed by litigation funders loom large in the Australian legal landscape. On 5 March 2020, the Morrison government announced a wide-ranging inquiry into the regulation of class actions and the litigation funding industry. The terms o... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Asia Pacific -
HFW, Solomonic Research: English Courts Rebound Following COVID-19 Slump
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Research by international law firm HFW and litigation analytics company Solomonic has revealed that English Courts activity has recovered to pre-Covid-19 levels following a sharp slump during the height of the outbreak. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution London -
English Court Support for Arbitration – Developments
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Commercial Court upholds supremacy of arbitration and overturns section 44(3) of the Arbitration Act 1996 injunction – not deemed “necessary” and “appropriate” Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
The changing landscape of UK insolvencies: The Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill
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The highly anticipated Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill (the "Bill") was finally published on 20 May 2020. Following its second and third readings in the House of Commons yesterday (3 June 2020), the Bill will now be considered by the House ... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Fraud and Insolvency RESTRUCTURING HUB -
The Supreme Court Sets New Standard For Clean Water Act Permits
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In a highly anticipated opinion the United States Supreme Court held that the Clean Water Act (“CWA” or “Act”) applies to the release of pollutants that are eventually conveyed through groundwater into navigable waters. Sector/service Joins: Shipping USA & Canada Houston -
Indonesia: New Regulatory Updates on the Obligation to Use Indonesian Vessels for Certain Exports and Imports
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In the midst of the global pandemic Covid-19, the Indonesian Government has finally issued a new regulation on the use of national sea transport for the export and import of certain goods, replacing the previous regulation (Minister of Trade Regulati... Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific International Trade Regulation -
Getting the Deal Through - Ship Finance 2019
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Ship Finance contains international insights into all areas of finance and vessel ownership affecting the international shipping industry. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Finance Middle East Dubai -
HFW Strengthens Middle East Construction Practice With Senior Hire, Partner Relocation
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has strengthened its Middle East construction practice with the hire of Maria Deus in Abu Dhabi and the relocation of Kijong Nam from London to Dubai. Sector/service Joins: Construction Dispute Resolution -
Client Guide: Privilege in Internal Investigations
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Privilege in internal investigations is an area that clients often have to grapple with and in which the consequences of getting it wrong can be severe. Privilege is also not something a client would necessarily immediately consider when conducting a... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution London -
Recent EU Trade Policy and the Implications for the Negotiations on Future Relationship with the UK
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EU trade policy is likely to receive considerable attention over the next few months, as the EU negotiates its future trading relationship with the UK. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
HFW Boosts Global Fraud And Insolvency Group With London Partner Hire
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HFW has continued to expand its global fraud and insolvency practice with the hire of Simon Jerrum. Sector/service Joins: Fraud and Insolvency -
Force Majeure – Now What? A Three-Step Framework for Mitigation
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COVID-19 has led many companies to seek shelter within the force majeure provisions of their contracts, and our earlier briefings on this can be found on our website1. But, having declared force majeure, what should you do next? Can you simply wait u... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Floating Storage: Time and voyage charter drafting tips
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In the table below we have tried to “issue spot” the key problems arising from floating storage (for time and voyage charters) and have included our own explanatory comments as well as the positions owners and charterers may tend to adopt. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Oil and Gas -
Maritime arbitrators: practical steps to manage your sanctions risk
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Shipping is currently in the centre of the sanctions spotlight – that is abundantly clear from recent US enforcement action, as well as public statements by US politicians. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Dispute Resolution International Trade Regulation -
When is control too remote?
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This briefing looks at the recent English Commercial Court judgment in Pipia v BGEO Group Ltd [2020] EWHC 402 (Comm)1, which gives welcome clarity, for the purposes of disclosure, on the extent to which a parent company would have control over docume... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW's New Hong Kong Capital Markets Team Score Back-To-Back IPOs
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW's new Hong Kong capital markets team secured lead roles on two IPOs that closed within five days of each other. Sector/service Joins: Hong Kong -
Insurance Bulletin, April 2020, Edition 2
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Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration; HFW publications and events Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
Improving liquidity by selling debts –a look at anti-assignment provisions in receivables financing.
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Debts and contractual rights are generally freely assignable, unless prohibited by statute or, more often, by contract. This article will consider non-assignment clauses in the context of receivables financing by examining recent developments in this... Sector/service Joins: Geneva Finance International Trade Regulation -
Adopt the Electronic Signature in French Corporate Law
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In France, it has been more than 20 years since the electronic signature was enshrined in Law No. 2000-230 of 13 March 2000 (Article 1367 of the French Civil Code), which defines it as "the use of a reliable identification process guaranteeing its li... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Paris -
Adoptez la signature electronique en droit des societes
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En France, cela fait plus de 20 ans que la signature électronique a été consacrée par la loi n° 2000-230 du 13 mars 2000 (article 1367 du Code civil) qui la définit comme suit : "elle consiste en l'usage d'un procédé fiable d'identification garantiss... Sector/service Joins: Corporate -
Can lawyers ever disclose their clients’ privileged documents?
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It is well established that under English law Legal Advice Privilege (LAP) can protect the confidentiality of lawyer / client communications where legal advice is being sought. However, a recent decision has confirmed the principle that such privileg... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Fraud and Insolvency RESTRUCTURING HUB -
HFW Implements Global Resource Management System After Successful Pilot
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has implemented a global resource management system after a successful six-month pilot. Sector/service Joins: -
'Negative' oil prices: what traders need to know
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Oil companies are currently facing a tremendous challenge. With massive oversupply in the market and storage facilities at capacity, the oil price has plummeted. The US has seen a "negative" price (sellers potentially paying buyers to take oil off t... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Subsea Cable Damage Claims: The Legal Approach
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Subsea cables have a long history reaching back almost two centuries, starting with the first international subsea cable, which was laid across the English Channel in 1850. Over recent years, the number of cables has considerably increased. In a ... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Energy -
HFW Assists Abu Dhabi Ports On Ship Purchase With Remote Closing By Video Conference
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Global, sector-focused law firm assisted Abu Dhabi Ports on its purchase of bulk carrier Mv NIKI. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Middle East -
Indonesia what's new - regulatory developments in mining, March 2017
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The Indonesian government has promulgated the following new mining regulations: Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific Mining Energy EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Global Partnerships Report 2016
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The three most important trends of the changing economy: inward investment, cleaner energy and partnerships that truly help societies Sector/service Joins: Corporate London Paris Brussels Geneva Piraeus Dubai Shanghai Hong Kong Singapore Brazil Riyadh Beirut Kuwait Australia -
HFW Wins China Business Law Awards For Aviation, Construction, Insurance And Shipping
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been named Law Firm of the Year in four categories at the China Business Law Awards 2020: Aviation, Construction and Infrastructure, Insurance and Reinsurance, and Shipping. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Insurance & Reinsurance Shipping Asia Pacific Hong Kong Shanghai -
HFW Continues To Grow Its Australia Presence With New Partner And Senior Associate In Perth
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW continues its growth in Australia with the partner hire of workplace, industrial relations and safety specialist Charmaine Tsang and senior associate Steve Bowler. Both join HFW’s Perth office on 14 April 2020 fr... Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific Australia Employment -
Privilege and the Regulator, is FRC v Sports Direct the end of the story?
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English legal professional privilege (LPP) is again in the limelight, this briefing looks at the recent Court of Appeal decision in FRC v Sports Direct1, which ruled on whether legal advice privilege (LAP), one of the two forms of LPP (the other bein... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Launches US Immigration Practice With Houston Team Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has launched a US immigration practice with the hire of Denise McGettrick, former Chief Legal Officer at immigration technology services company PassRight. Sector/service Joins: USA & Canada -
HFW, Solomonic Research Reveals Dramatic Impact Of Covid-19 On English Courts
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Research by international law firm HFW and litigation analytics company Solomonic has revealed a dramatic slump in English Courts activity following the Covid-19 outbreak. Sector/service Joins: -
EU Sanctions Authorities Start to Show Their Teeth
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On 31 March 2020, the UK's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) announced that the Economic Secretary to the Treasury had upheld the decision to impose two fines on Standard Chartered Bank for breaching EU financial sanctions on Sberb... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory International Trade Regulation -
Sanchez v. Smart Fabricators – Fifth Circuit Denies Seaman Status to Offshore Worker Injured on Jack-Up Rig
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In Sanchez v. Smart Fabricators of Texas, LLC, No. 19-20506 (5th Cir. March 11, 2020), the Fifth Circuit took up seaman status once again, this time focusing on whether a person’s connection to a vessel in navigation is substantial in nature. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Dispute Resolution -
HFW Continues To Strengthen Corporate And Regulatory Insurance Practice With Senior Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to strengthen its corporate and regulatory insurance practice with the hire of senior expert Robert Haldane. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Corporate EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
The Sixteen-Year Voyage Of The M/T Athos I Through The US Courts Comes To An End: US Supreme Court Decides That A Safe-Berth Clause Establishes A Warranty Of Safety
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Safe-berth clauses appear in a variety of maritime contracts such as charters and tariffs, as well as in hybrid commodities sales contracts. The United States Supreme Court’s M/T Athos I decision resolved a circuit split on the interpretation of a sa... Sector/service Joins: Shipping USA & Canada -
Does the winner take all? The Fifth Circuit clarifies who is a prevailing party in maritime contracts
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In commercial maritime disputes, the potential award of attorney’s fees under a fee-shifting clause can greatly impact resolution strategy. In Genesis Marine LLC of Delaware v. Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC,1 the Fifth Circuit addressed the issue of... Sector/service Joins: Shipping USA & Canada -
Texas Supreme Court addresses insurance coverage and extrinsic evidence
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently sent a certified question to the Texas Supreme Court asking whether a policy-language exception to the eight-corners rule—i.e., that the eight-corners rule does not apply to policies l... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance USA & Canada -
Soft commodities: Unwinding certificates final – quality and description
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This is the first instalment in a series of articles focussing on issues affecting soft commodities traders. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Asbestos at sea: An unexpected problem
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Less than one year remains for the owners of any ships calling at EU ports or anchorages to arrange surveys, required by the EU Ship Recycling Regulation, to identify if hazardous materials including asbestos, are present on board. Will such surveys ... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
COVID-19 Plans and Measures
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We are continually monitoring the developing COVID-19 outbreak and implementing contingency plans to protect our colleagues, clients and everyone in the HFW community. We have systems in place to allow remote working across our international network,... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Insurance & Reinsurance Shipping -
Finance Monthly Magazine
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Saudi Arabia – aggregator rules - update
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On 19 February 2020, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority ("SAMA") announced the issuance of the Rules Governing Insurance Aggregation Activities (the "Rules"). Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Riyadh Middle East -
LME warehouse reforms come into effect
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The London Metal Exchange (LME) has been on a path of reform since 2013. Its initial focus was on infrastructure and operational efficiency. More recently, it turned its attention to reducing stock levels in LME-listed warehouses. Its latest reforms ... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
HFW Continues Growth With Promotions Across International Network And Industry Groups
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has announced the promotion of six new partners and three new legal directors, effective 1 April 2020. Sector/service Joins: -
Quincecare Duty in the spotlight: more trouble for banks?
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Almost thirty years ago, the English courts found that a bank owes a fiduciary duty to its customer, known as the Quincecare duty of care (the Quincecare Duty). Since then, it has rarely been relied upon by customers seeking to take action against th... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Finance Financial Institutions -
SAMA Actuarial Work Regulation for Insurance
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The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA) announced the issuance of the Actuarial Work Regulation (the Rules) for Insurance on 1 March 2020. This comes after SAMA called for views on the draft regulation in November 2019, and it replaces the previo... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
The English Court of Appeal Confirms that the ‘Arkin cap’ is not a binding rule in litigation funding: good news for defendants.
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The Court of Appeal has recently upheld the Chancery Division’s decision in Chapelgate Master Fund Opportunity v Money1, and in so doing confirmed that the ‘Arkin cap’ is not a binding rule, but merely guidance. This briefing gives an update on the e... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution London -
Airlines vs. claims agencies…the EU261 fight continues!
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In February this year, low-cost carrier Ryanair secured a significant victory for the airline industry when the English Court of Appeal (CA) ruled in its favour in a dispute with solicitors Bott & Co, who specialise in the volume pursuit of compensat... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
EU Imposes Turkey asset freezes
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The EU has now made its first designations under the Turkey sanctions. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory International Trade Regulation -
The UAE's New Life Assurance Regulations – One Month Until Implementation
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Next month, the Insurance Authority Board of Directors' Decision No. (49) of 2019 Concerning Instructions for Life Insurance and Family Takaful Insurance (the Life Regulations) will come into legal effect. The Life Regulations have the potential to ... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Facial Recognition: Facing the Future
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‘Facial recognition’ is a technique which uses technology to identify individuals from digital images of individuals’ faces. As use of this technology has grown, so too has the controversy surrounding it, particularly when used ‘live’ (ie. using tech... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Troubled waters ahead? Australia to open up coastal trades to international shipping, March 2015
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In his election victory speech in September 2013, Prime Minister Abbott declared “Australia is under new management and is once more open for business”. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Ports & Terminals International Trade Regulation Commodities Asia Pacific Melbourne Sydney Perth EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Proposed overhaul of Australian competition law in the shipping liner trade, September 2014
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In 2011, the Australian Government ushered in a raft of changes to the country’s competition and consumer laws culminating in the renaming of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) (TPA) as the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA) and the enactment of... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Ports & Terminals Commodities EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Asia Pacific Melbourne Sydney Perth International Trade Regulation -
Green Law
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From making palm oil more ethically palatable to decommissioning oil and gas infrastructures, the spotlight remains firmly on the green movement this year. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW's Workplace Relations Update 2020 - Looking at the year ahead
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In this update our Australian Workplace Relations team highlights the key Industrial Relations issues employers will likely confront in 2020 Sector/service Joins: -
Getting the Green Light for Sustainable Finance in the Commodities Sector
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How can borrowers in the commodities sector ensure they don’t miss out on funding from green loans and sustainability linked lending? Sector/service Joins: Commodities Finance Geneva -
HFW Advises Banks On US$300 Million Trafigura-Norilsk Nickel Copper Deal
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has advised the lenders on a US$300 million financing for commodity trading company Trafigura. Sector/service Joins: Geneva Finance -
HFW recognised as a Leading Firm in Chambers Global
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a leading firm in the newly updated Chambers Global, a guide to the world's best lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW Litigation's English Civil Procedure survey - The Civil Procedure Rules, 20 years on
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In this first HFW LITIGATION survey we focus on English Civil Procedural Rules (CPRs), which came into being as a result of the Woolf Reforms in April 1999, 20 years ago. Sector/service Joins: -
Supreme Committee of the Insurance Regulation Unit now established in Kuwait
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On 30 January 2020 the Kuwaiti Minister of Commerce and Industry issued a decision (No,24/2020) forming the Supreme Committee ("Committee") of the Insurance Regulation Unit ("IRU"). Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
The new French regulations on “personal mobility devices” raise some insurance questions
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Decree n°2019-1082 of October 25, 2019 regarding the regulation of motorized personal transport vehicles has provided long-awaited answers to the process of approval and circulation of electric scooters. However, some questions remain. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Paris -
HFW Hires Thomas Cook Team Leader As First Flight Delay And Cancellation Claims Manager
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW has boosted its flight delay and cancellation claims practice with the hire of former Thomas Cook Airlines customer claims team leader Gareth Miller-Reedman as its first dedicated claims manager. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Draft Rules Regarding Bancassurance Activities in KSA
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On 5 February 2020, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency ('SAMA') released the 'Draft Rules Governing Bancassurance Activities' (the 'Rules') regarding the sale of (undefined) insurance products by banks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ('KSA'). The Rules... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
WELCAR and Damage to Existing Property – the search for certainty of cover
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We have recently been involved in a case where a dispute arose about the cover for physical damage to first party property (and consequential loss) under the standard endorsement/buy back for Damage To Existing Property wording for the WELCAR offshor... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
And the award goes to… Legal Innovation!
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The world is not static. Innovation and progress are constant in all areas of society, including economics, technology, and commerce. The law is no different and must adapt to society’s ever-changing needs. In this article we discuss some important a... Sector/service Joins: -
New Draft Electronic Insurance Regulations Released
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The eagerly awaited UAE Electronic Insurance Regulations have been in the consultation stage for some time now. Last year, we provided an update on the status of the draft Regulations and analysed some of the principle features which insurers and ins... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
High Court gives guidance on duties owed by Directors following administration and creditors’ voluntary liquidation
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In what is believed to be the first case to deal with the question, any doubt as to whether the entirety of the duties owed by directors continue post administration or creditors’ voluntary liquidation (CVL) has been firmly laid to rest by the Insol... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Fraud and Insolvency Corporate RESTRUCTURING HUB -
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Published on an ad hoc basis, usually when there is a significant event, legislative change or court judgment which we feel is important to update our clients and contacts about. Sector/service Joins: -
LOF 2020 – an update to the world’s oldest and most commonly used salvage contract
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On 1 January 2020, the Lloyd’s Salvage Arbitration Branch launched an updated edition of the Lloyd’s Standard Form of Salvage Agreement, or Lloyd’s Open Form (LOF 2020). Sector/service Joins: Shipping London -
UAE: Insurance Disputes and the Arbitration Agreement
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The position on the validity of arbitration agreements in insurance disputes has always been an area of uncertainty in the UAE. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
Digital Platforms and the Law: The Rules on Digital Commerce
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Our regulatory experts are increasingly advising on legal aspects of digital platforms, both business-to-business and business-to-consumer. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Data Protection -
Redefining Waters of the United States: New Federal Act Preserves State Authority Over Water Resources
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On 23 January 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army (Army) finalized the Navigable Waters Protection Rule to define “waters of the United States” and establish federal regulatory authority under the Clean... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Legal Advice is Dominant
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In a Court of Appeal judgment published earlier this week, in which Hickinbottom LJ gave the lead judgment, and Patten and Peter Jackson LJJ both agreed, the Court of Appeal in dismissing an appeal on all grounds, gave helpful clarification on the ap... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Named World's Best Shipping Law Firm At Lloyd's List Awards
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has won the Excellence in Maritime Law award at the Lloyd's List Global Awards, which recognises the world's best shipping law firm. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Insurance Bulletin, January 2020
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HFW Wins Middle East Insurance Award For Fourth Year Running
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been named Insurance Law Firm of the Year at the MENA IR Insurance Awards 2020. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
HFW continues to grow its Australia presence with two new partners
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW continues its growth in Australia with the partner promotion of energy and renewable specialist Jo Garland and the partner hire of regulatory and product liability specialist Dr Michael Maxwell from Clayton Utz. T... Sector/service Joins: Australia Energy -
Australia issues regulations for implementation of IMO2020 premised on a policy of strict compliance
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One of the many challenges faced by shipowners with the coming into effect from 1st January 2020 of the MARPOL Convention Annex VI global sulphur cap reduction for marine fuel (IMO2020), is the approach that will be taken by Port State Control (PSC) ... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Asia Pacific -
Digital Platforms and the Law: Data Protection
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Our regulatory experts are increasingly advising on legal aspects of digital platforms, both business-to-business and business-to-consumer. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Data Protection -
Digital Platforms and the Law: An Overview
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Our regulatory experts are increasingly advising on legal aspects of digital platforms, both business-to-business and business-to-consumer. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Data Protection -
Iranian Airspace Restrictions: Managing EU261 Exposures
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This briefing provides guidance to carriers on the Iranian airspace restrictions and considers the impact this will have on the management of passenger claims arising out of EU261. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Cross border transactions into the EU or UK: will you be caught by the new DAC6 reporting requirements?
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This briefing is a step by step guide to the new EU disclosure requirements for certain cross-border transactions and/or arrangements. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Offshore Impact: Customs and Border Protection issues a significant notice that changes Jones Act interpretation
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On December 11, 2019, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued a significant Customs Bulletin and Notice (the Notice)1 that will impact whether coastwise qualified vessels are required for certain offshore operations. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Enforcement of judgments between UAE and India gets easier
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By notification just issued on 17 January 2020 (and published on 18 January 2020), the Ministry of Law & Justice in India has declared the UAE to be a reciprocating territory for the purpose of enforcing foreign judgments under the Indian Code of Civ... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Middle East Indian Sub-continent -
Autonomous ships: Drawing a line in the sand
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In our first 2020 briefing1 for our series on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS), we consider changes to both the UK Code of Practice (COP) on MASS, signs of progress from the IMO in mapping the regulatory framework of autonomous shipping and a... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Email payment frauds - staying one step ahead
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Email payment frauds are becoming more elaborate and can have a heavy financial cost for those that fall victim to them. In this briefing, we examine what businesses can do to prevent themselves becoming a victim to these frauds and to recover money ... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Dispute Resolution Fraud and Insolvency -
When you act in good faith, will you ever walk alone?
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In its recent decision of New Balance Athletics, Inc v Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds Ltd [2019] EWHC 2837, the English High Court shed light on the meaning of what constitutes good faith. This is a reminder to all parties on the impor... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
The GDPR Abroad: EU guidelines on territorial scope finalised
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In November 2019 the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its finalised Guidelines1 on the territorial scope of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)2. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Data Protection -
Indian Supreme Court settles uncertainty on the application of the Indian Arbitration Act
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In a culmination of the continuing back and forth between the Indian Supreme Court and the legislature regarding the applicability of the 2015 amendments to the Indian Arbitration Act, the Supreme Court found certain sections of the latest 2019 amen... Sector/service Joins: -
Gender diversity in the aviation industry: Latest studies identify areas of focus for 2020 and beyond
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The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2020 revealed that gender parity will not be attained for 99.5 years – a reminder that true gender equality is a marathon, not a sprint. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Asia Pacific -
Cabinet Office honours data breach: a reminder to lock up your personal data
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The UK Government’s Cabinet Office made headlines for the wrong reasons recently after accidentally publishing personal address details of recipients of New Year honours online. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Data Protection -
Future of Flight series: Urban air mobility – Challenges and Change
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Our Future of Flight series considers the legal and regulatory challenges facing the aerospace industry due to the rapidly changing dynamics in the skies and on the ground. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Singapore -
Indonesian government revokes regulation on foreign construction businesses
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Indonesia's June 2019 issuance of Regulation No. 09/PRT/M/2019 (2019 Regulation)1 sought to provide additional guidance for foreign stakeholders in the Indonesian construction industry, further to 2017’s Construction Law No. 22. Sector/service Joins: Construction Asia Pacific -
Comprehensively Yachts - Industry Briefing
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At the end of another busy year for our yacht team and the yachting industry as a whole, we are pleased to publish our latest yachting industry briefing. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Partner Paul Dean named among most influential people in Shipping
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HFW's Global Head of Shipping Paul Dean has been named by Lloyd's List as one of the 100 most influential people in the maritime industry and one of the market’s top 10 lawyers. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Good Faith in the UAE - An Insurance focus
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The concept of good faith differs between common law and civil law systems, particularly in relation to insurance and reinsurance contracts. This article highlights the key points to bear in mind in relation to good faith in the UAE and how this can ... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
To Be Maritime or Not To Be Maritime – That Is the Question
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In Barrios v. Centaur, LLC, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit expands the application of the In re Larry Doiron test to Mixed-Services Contracts Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Adds Lloyd's List Europe Award To Asia-Pacific, Middle East Wins
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW has won the Excellence in Maritime Law award at the Lloyd's List Europe Awards. Sector/service Joins: -
FinSA: The new Swiss Financial Services Act and new obligations for companies which manage other parties' risk
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The Swiss Financial Services Act ("FinSA"), the Swiss equivalent to MIFID II, will come into effect in stages from 1 January 2020 onwards. The aim of FinSA is different from other Swiss regulations dealing with derivatives, in that its purpose is to... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Geneva Finance -
New year, new rules: changes to MC99 and new MP14 regime
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We explore the recent changes to two existing international aviation treaties, MC99 and the Tokyo Convention 1963, and the likely impact on aviation industry stakeholders. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Asia Pacific -
Insurance Bulletin, December 2019, Edition 1
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In this issue: Regulation and Legislation; Court cases and arbitration; Market developments; Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Singapore Court refuses to enforce international arbitration award
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In its recent decision in ST Group Co. Ltd. v. Sanum Investments Limited [2018] SGHC 1411, the Court of Appeal in Singapore refused to enforce an award for the reason that the award incorrectly decided to seat the arbitration in Singapore. Sector/service Joins: Energy -
HFW continues to strengthen asset finance capability with Partner hire
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International law firm Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW) continues to expand its asset finance practice with the recruitment of Stephen Marais who has joined the firm's London office as Partner, effective 5 October 2015. Sector/service Joins: Finance London Shipping Aerospace Commodities -
KSA Inherent Defects Insurance
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With the number of developments announced recently in Saudi Arabia, the KSA construction industry is going through a dynamic and exciting phase. It may therefore come as no great surprise that the KSA regulatory authorities are taking an increasing i... Sector/service Joins: Middle East Insurance & Reinsurance -
Cryptocurrencies are Property and Capable of Enforcement: UK Taskforce Confirms
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In what has been described as a "watershed" development that is likely to boost the appeal of the English courts, a paper published last week confirms English law will view cryptocurrencies as "property" and therefore capable of enforcement by the En... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Digital Trade -
Do I Need a Ship Recycling Policy?
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The entry into force of the European Ship Recycling Regulation EC NO. 1257/2013 (the SRR) on 31 December 2018 once again brought ship recycling back into the limelight. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Wins Middle East Insurance Law Firm of the Year for Second Year Running
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW has won Law Firm of the Year at the Middle East Insurance Industry Awards for the second consecutive year. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
HFW Recognised For Maritime Excellence At Lloyd's List SAMEA Awards
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW has won the Excellence in Maritime Law award at the Lloyd's List South Asia, Middle East and Africa awards. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Middle East -
How are contract and trust law principles applied in cryptocurrency disputes?
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We are beginning to see disputes arising from the use of virtual currencies in trade. How such issues will be tackled is subject to much speculation and debate. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Ranked Among Asia's Top 50 Law Firms
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW has been ranked among the top 50 firms in Asia by Asian Legal Business. Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific -
The UAE's Draft Electronic Insurance Regulations and the Outsourcing of Electronic Insurance Operations
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Earlier this year, the Insurance Authority released draft regulations relating to Electronic Insurance (the Draft Regulations). While the Draft Regulations have not yet been implemented, there are certain proposed provisions which insurers and insura... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
Turkey: EU Sanctions by Christmas?
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On 11 November 2019 the EU adopted the legal framework to impose asset freezing measures against certain individuals and entities in Turkey. Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
HFW Ranked By The Times Among UK's Best Law Firms
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Global, sector-focussed law firm HFW has been ranked by The Times among the UK's best law firms. Sector/service Joins: -
Client guide: sanctions
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A key political weapon used by governments to exert pressure on a particular country or regime to encourage a change in behaviour or compliance with certain objectives. The main sanctions regimes exist in the EU, US and UK, often implementing measure... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Supreme Court clarifies when non-party costs liability arises
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On 30 October 2019 the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Travelers Insurance Company Ltd v XYZ1, which will be welcomed by liability insurers. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Volumatic Ltd v Ideas for Life Ltd: English Court refuses to find binding contract, despite written document
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The English Intellectual Property Enterprise Court recently examined the objective test to be employed when determining the parties' intention to create legal relations through a written document. Sector/service Joins: -
Navigating a shareholders agreement: Financing the company
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In the fourth of our HFW Insights: Navigating a shareholders agreement series, in which we distil common corporate and transactional issues into bite-sized insight, we explore key financing issues in the context of joint ventures. Sector/service Joins: Corporate -
Commodities: Common Issues in oil trading contracts – Demurrage in sales contracts
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This is the third in our series looking at common problems which can arise in oil trading contracts. In a previous article, we looked at issues arising from the use of the term “laycan” in sale contracts. Here, we consider why and how demurrage claus... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Clarification on Translation Requirements for Insurance Policies
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The UAE Insurance Authority has recently issued Administrative Decision No. 140 of 2019 Concerning the Exclusion of Some Insurance Policies From the Requirement of Being Written in the Arabic Language (the Decision). The Decision has served to clarif... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
2019 Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Dorian, which recently devastated the northwestern Bahamas and caused significant damage to the southwestern United States and Atlantic Canada, was the first major hurricane of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. Most current projections es... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Commodities Case Update, November 2019
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We are delighted to present the eighth Commodities Case Update, a publication which is produced quarterly. The update provides a summary of some of the key cases relevant to the commodities sector from the last few months. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
A guide to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) – General Admissions
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Why list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)? Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific Melbourne Sydney Perth Financial Institutions Finance -
Brexit Update
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As the UK government prepares to vote again on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal, HFW's Brian Perrott examines some of the myths surrounding Brexit and the law. Sector/service Joins: -
Senior Managers and Certification Regime - how to prepare
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Senior Associate Will Reddie and Associate Rita Kato discuss the extension of the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SM&CR) to insurance intermediaries. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Insurtech Start Ups - Dealing with Legal and Regulatory Challenges
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Senior Associate William Reddie explains the legal and regulatory challenges for start-ups when launching insurtech products. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Brexit panel discussion - the future of the landscape
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For our second Brexit panel we welcomed back Radio 4 'Today' presenter John Humphrys who returned to chair the panel discussion. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
The future of the Brexit landscape (part two)
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HFW Partners Anthony Woolich and Brian Perrott discuss the future of the Brexit landscape (part two of two) Sector/service Joins: Commodities EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
The future of the Brexit landscape (part one)
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HFW Partners Anthony Woolich and Brian Perrott discuss the future of the Brexit landscape (part one of two) Sector/service Joins: Commodities EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Brexit's impact on disputes
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HFW Partner, Damian Honey discusses Brexit's impact on disputes. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
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FIDIC Video Guide
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HFW construction partner Ben Mellors with what you need to know about the new FIDIC Second Editions. Sector/service Joins: Construction -
International trade sanctions: how to keep your business safe
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HFW sanctions expert Daniel Martin outlines the four key issues all businesses must consider in order to stay in front of this rapidly changing area of law – and avoid the potentially severe penalties for getting it wrong. Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
GDPR data breaches: how to prepare, respond and avoid
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HFW regulatory expert Felicity Burling outlines five simple steps to help businesses avoid potentially costly data breaches. Sector/service Joins: Data Protection -
Insurance Bulletin, September 2019, Edition 1
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HFW have successfully defeated a challenge to the appointment of individuals from Grant Thornton as Trustees of the insolvent Estate of Boris Berezovsky (deceased)
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Judgment was handed down on 27 October 2015 in the case of Lockston Group Inc v Wood, Hellard & Leeds (as Joint Trustees of the Estate of Platon Elenin (also known as Boris Abramovich Berezovsky)). To view a copy of the judgment click here. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Eastern Europe & Russia Commercial London -
Privilege Pack
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A guide for in-house practitioners (first edition) Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Japan Pack: First Edition
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This dedicated Japan Pack is designed to help our commercial partners successfully navigate the choppy waters caused by the UK's decision to exit the European Union. HFW will support you to avoid the pitfalls and make the most of the opportunities th... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Commodities Asia Pacific -
Indonesia’s 2019 Regulation for construction businesses: Important news for foreign investors
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The June 2019 implementation of Indonesia’s Regulation No. 09/PRT/M/2019 (the 2019 Regulation) seeks to provide additional guidance for foreign stakeholders in the Indonesian construction industry, further to 2017’s Construction Law No. 21. We explor... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Managing sanctions risk in contracts: the High Court provides guidance
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Given the broad scope of international trade sanctions, the potential for new measures to be introduced with no warning, and the significant fines that have been imposed for sanctions breaches, we strongly recommend that all contracts for internation... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Insurance Bulletin, October 2019, Edition 1
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In this issue: Court cases and arbitration; Market Developments; HFW Publications and events Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
Positive STJ decision prohibits automatic moral damages for flight delay
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On Robson da Silva Balbe vs. Airline (REsp No. 1.796.716 – MG), the Superior Tribunal of Justice (“STJ”, the Brazilian Supreme Court for non-constitutional matters) decided that moral damages for flight delay are not “automatic” and require evidence... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Latin America -
BRILLANTE VIRTUOSO: a cautionary tale for co-assured banks and mortgagees' interest insurers
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The High Court has dismissed a claim by the mortgagee bank of the "BRILLANTE VIRTUOSO" under the terms of the vessel's war risks policy on the basis that the constructive total loss of the vessel was caused by the wilful misconduct of the owner. Sector/service Joins: -
Warehouse receipts, fraud and attornment: an English Commercial Court judgment
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The English Court has again considered a case arising out of fraud in warehouses. The judgment in Natixis –v- Marex and Access World1 looks at the relationship between warehouse operators and metal owners, the status of warehouse receipts and the fun... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Cut out the middle man
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Recent high profile news reports demonstrate the difficulties in ensuring that agents do not cause their trading principals to fall foul of anti-bribery and corruption laws. We look at what trading principals can do to manage this risk. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Prudential and rothesay: Has Populism reached Part VIIs?
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Much has been written in recent weeks about Lord Snowden’s decision, in a somewhat emotive judgment1, to block the Part VII transfer of the Prudential Assurance Company’s (PAC) annuity book to Rothesay Life. But what does it really mean for the marke... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
HFW Wins Asia Captive Review Awards 2019 For Second Consecutive Year
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has won Law Firm of the Year at the Asia Captive Review Awards for the second year running. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
HFW Retains Ranking As One Of UK's Top Social Mobility Employers
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been ranked as one of the UK's top social mobility employers. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW Underlines Mental Wellbeing Commitment By Signing Mindful Business Charter
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has underlined its commitment to mental health and wellbeing by signing the Mindful Business Charter. Sector/service Joins: -
Dismantlecon
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On 23 September 2019 BIMCO published its first standard form offshore marine services decommissioning agreement "DISMANTLECON". DISMANTLECON is a contract for the dismantling and delivery of offshore structures to an agreed place of delivery. BIMCO h... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Oil and Gas -
HFW Continues To Expand Transactional Practice With Paris Corporate Partner Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its global transactional offering with the hire of senior corporate partner Aline Poncelet. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW Partner Jay Tooker Named Aviation And Yachts Lawyer Of The Year
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HFW partner Jay Tooker has been named Aviation and Yachts Lawyer of the Year at the Chambers High Net Worth Awards 2019. Sector/service Joins: -
Litigation Funding in the DIFC
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New Mandatory Code of Conduct Impacts on Third Party Funding in the DIFC Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Dubai Middle East -
HFW Signs £25m Portfolio Litigation Funding Deal with Augusta
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Leading global disputes law firm HFW has agreed a £25 million portfolio litigation funding facility with Augusta Ventures. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
ICC Incoterms 2020 - Commentary
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The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) published the 9th revision of the Incoterms last month. It will come into force on 1 January 2020. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Mind the Gap: On the Outer Continental Shelf, State Law Applies Only Where There is a Gap in Federal Law
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In Parker Drilling Management Services v. Newton, 587 U.S. __, 139 S.Ct. 1881 (2019), the U.S. Supreme Court confirmed the Fifth Circuit’s long held position that, under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), state law is borrowed as the appl... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Houston USA & Canada -
HFW Continues To Expand Aviation Finance Practice With London Partner Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its aviation finance practice with the hire of partner Asheesh Das. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Assessing and allocating risks for digital technology in the upstream E&P sector
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“The robots aren’t coming, they are already here.”1 In May 2019, the Journal of Petroleum Technology addressed the exponential growth of digitized processes in upstream oil and gas operations. The Journal cited to Roger Jenkins, Murphy Oil’s Preside... Sector/service Joins: Energy Houston USA & Canada Cyber Security -
Hong Kong Insurance Briefing - September 2019
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In this briefing we look at, New Regime for Hong Kong Insurance Intermediaries; Regulated activities; Fit & proper criteria; Intermediary management control function Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Hong Kong Asia Pacific -
HFW AsiaLegal begins tenure as an anchor firm for Singapore Law Society Pro Bono services
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Global sector-focused law firm HFW has underlined its commitment to improving access to justice by formalising its pro bono work in Singapore Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific Singapore -
Tackling unruly passengers: Change on the horizon
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Changes to the international legal framework on the handling of unruly passengers are likely to come into force later this year. Against the backdrop of current legislation, we outline the scope of the Montreal Protocol 2014 (MP14) and highligh... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Hong Kong Aerospace Bulletin - September 2019
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In this bulletin, the latest in our current series of Hong Kong-related aviation bulletins, we look at both recent and forthcoming aviation developments in the region with a focus on finance-related issues, exploring the implications behind the acron... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Hong Kong Asia Pacific -
Thinking of applying for a freezing injunction or have just received one? Recent developments in English freezing injunctions are worth having in mind.
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Freezing injunctions are an important litigation tool used to ensure potential assets are not disposed of and remain available to satisfy a future judgment. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Launches Monaco Office With Hire Of Market-Leading Team
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has launched an office in Monaco with the hire of a market-leading team, led by partners Ian Cranston, Andrew Charlier and Marco Crusafio. Sector/service Joins: Monaco -
The New Hague Judgments Convention
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Dispute Resolution analysis: Sara Sheffield, Partner and Derek Bayley, Associate, both at HFW Dubai, discuss the background to and the details of the new 2019 Hague Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in Civil and Comme... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Bangladeshi cabinet's approval of legislation to bring about ratification of MC99: A positive step but one with potential pitfalls
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On 26 August 2019, the Bangladeshi Cabinet of Ministers approved, in principle, legislation that would ratify the Montreal Convention 1999 (MC99) and bring Bangladesh into the fold with the other 136 states that have ratified MC99. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Pro-arbitration Delhi High Court enforces SIAC award - Glencore International AG v Indian Potash Limited & Anr case
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The Delhi High Court's recognition of yet another foreign award passed under the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) Rules 2010, despite several objections by the award-debtor, reinforces India's increasingly pro-arbitration appro... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Asia Pacific -
HFW represents Rubicon Vantage International in first-of-its-kind successful Commercial Court hybrid guarantee claim
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HFW Partner Paul Aston and Senior Associate Suzanne Meiklejohn, both based in HFW's Singapore office, represented Rubicon as claimant in an action in the Commercial Court, in Rubicon Vantage International Pte Ltd v KrisEnergy Limited [2019] EWHC 2012... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Commodities -
Construction Bulletin, September 2019
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In this issue: FIDIC’s New Emerald Book for Underground Works; Construction Industry Reforms in Australia and the United Kingdom; Notices and Valuation of Variations; Conspiracies and Contract Administrators Sector/service Joins: Construction -
HFW To Boost Market-Leading Shipping Practice With Singapore Partner Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW is boosting its market-leading shipping practice with the hire of Singapore partner Christopher Metcalf. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Singapore -
HFW expands Singapore Shipping Practice with hire of Christopher Jones-July-2019
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has hired Christopher Jones, a renowned former shipbroker with almost 50 years' experience in the shipping industry. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Legislative reforms to the Indian Law on Arbitration
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Significant developments in the Indian law on arbitration have taken place during the last few weeks. This is the first time since 2015 that India has undertaken sweeping reforms of its arbitration regime. We outline the key changes and their impacts... Sector/service Joins: Energy -
The rise of cybercrime in Asia Pacific and Considerations for organisations operating in the region
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SIFoCC’s 2019 Multilateral Enforcement Memorandum-a practical guide to the international enforcement of foreign money judgments
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Dispute Resolution analysis: In June 2019, the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts (SIFoCC) published a Multilateral Memorandum on Enforcement of Commercial Judgments for Money (the memorandum), a landmark multilateral memorandum provid... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
FIDIC Emerald Book - First Impressions
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On 7 May 2019, FIDIC launched the Conditions of Contract for Underground Works (Emerald Book), the latest in its Rainbow Book series. The Emerald Book is a joint endeavour between FIDIC and International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Insurance Bulletin, July 2019, Edition 2
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In this issue: HFW publications and events; Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
Autonomous ships: MASS – The “Pearl” of an Opportunity
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Since our last article on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) in December 20181, as expected there have been continued developments in technology and demonstrations. In this briefing, we write with an update on the work we have been doing at HF... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Insurance Authority Dispute Resolution Committees – Update
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On 15 July 2019, the Insurance Authority ("IA") published Board Resolution No. 33 of 2019 Concerning the Regulation of Committees for the Settlement and Resolution of Insurance Disputes ("Regulations"). Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
HFW Announces Development Partnership With Litigation Analytics Start-Up Solomonic
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Leading global disputes law firm HFW has announced a development partnership with litigation analytics start-up Solomonic. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Brexit Update - 'No-Deal' Checklist
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With both candidates to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom refusing to rule out a ‘no-deal’ Brexit, and the current ‘no-deal’ deadline of 31st October 2019 looming, it is important for UK companies and companies which do business with t... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Air and Liquid Systems Corp. V. Devries
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In Air and Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, in the maritime law context, a manufacturer of an asbestos-free product can be liable for injuries caused by parts with asbestos created by third parties that were later in... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
IMO 2020- Scrubbers – A good investment?
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In our latest IMO2020 briefing, we look at some of the potential benefits industry stakeholders may stand to gain from investing in vessel scrubbers, otherwise known as Exhaust Gas Cleaning Systems (EGCS). Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Have you considered excluding third party rights in all key project contracts, big or small?
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An exploration of the Court of Appeal's broad interpretation in Chudley & Ors v Clydesdale Bank plc Sector/service Joins: Energy -
Insurance Bulletin, July 2019, Edition 1
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ICO makes its mark with first large GDPR fine
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The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) made history yesterday by announcing its intention to fine British Airways a painful £183.39 million for a data breach that occurred last year. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
California Law Need Not Apply: The U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Rejects the 9th Circuit and Holds that Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act Only Applies State Law when Federal Law is Silent
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The Supreme Court in Parker Drilling Management Services, Ltd. v. Brian Newton overturned the Ninth Circuit’s ruling, electing to follow the Fifth Circuit precedent, in a case relevant to companies operating on the Outer Continental Shelf (“OCS”) and... Sector/service Joins: -
The Strait of Hormuz: How can you manage the risks
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On 20 June 2019 the US narrowly pulled back from retaliatory military strikes on Iranian targets. This was a move planned in response to Iran’s targeting of a US drone allegedly operating in Iranian airspace. These events follow a series of attacks o... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
The Supreme Court of the United States decides Dutra Group v. Batterton
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The Supreme Court of the United States decides Dutra Group v. Batterton settling the split between the Fifth and the Ninth Circuits, reconciling Miles v. Apex and Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend and holding that punitive damages are NOT available i... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Freezer Pack
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It was in 1975 in Mareva Compania Naviera SA v International Bulkcarriers SA where HFW acted for the successful applicant in securing an injunction restraining the respondents from removing or disposing of any moneys out of the jurisdiction1. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Dispute Resolution -
The time for hiding behind the ISM may be over: Libra case acts as a reminder to owners and insurers of the importance of passage planning
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For many years, owners have often relied upon simply having a Safety Management System (SMS) in place to demonstrate their due diligence in ship management and providing a seaworthy vessel. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Industry Briefing: the 2019 Mediterranean yachting season is underway
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With the Mediterranean yachting season beginning, the HFW yacht team analyse some of the latest developments to affect the yachting industry. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Insurance Bulletin, June 2019 Edition 1
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In this issue: Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration; Market developments Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
ISDA Smart Derivatives - The Future?
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For many of our clients, the trading of derivatives is a key element of their trading functions and risk-management processes. In light of increased regulatory requirements and an industry-wide focus on the potential benefits of automation, the Inter... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Commodities: Common Issues in Oil Trading Contracts – Time for Delivery and Laycan
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In the second briefing in our series, we look at three issues in relation to time for delivery and laycan, provide some case examples and give three key takeaways. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Client Guide: Freezing Injunctions
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This Client Guide outlines the key points to consider when obtaining or receiving the English court “freezing injunction” (previously known as a Mareva injunction): a powerful tool for any party seeking to prevent assets being dissipated prior to enf... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Wins Big At Aviation 100 European Awards
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued its run of aerospace industry awards with two wins at the Airline Economics Aviation 100 European Awards 2019. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
TXF Commodity Finance Awards Underline HFW's Position As Market Leader
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has underlined its position as a market leader for commodity finance with roles on two of TXF's 'Perfect 10' deals of the year. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Insurance Bulletin, May 2019
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Is negative interest payable under the Credit Support Annex to an ISDA Master Agreement?
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In the State of the Netherlands v Deutsche Bank AG1, the Court of Appeal has confirmed that on its true construction, the Credit Support Annex (CSA) to an ISDA Master Agreement does not provide for the payment of negative interest. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Dispute Resolution -
HFW Helps BIMCO Draft Industry's First Offshore Decommissioning Contract
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has helped shipping association BIMCO draft an industry standard offshore decommissioning contact. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Liquidated damages after contract termination
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This question has been considered in two recent cases. In GPP Big Field LLP v Solar EPC Solutions SL [2018] EWHC 2866 (Comm) there was a dispute arising under five EPC contracts for the construction of solar energy plants in the UK. The co... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Are we seeing the end of the ‘Arkin Cap’ limiting a funder’s liability for adverse costs?
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In a judgment1 that will be welcomed by many, the English Chancery Court has departed from what has, since 2005, been the established, but often criticised principle that commercial litigation funders should have their adverse costs exposure limited ... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
SHIPPING INSIGHT: The maritime arbitration universe in numbers: one year on
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It has been a year since the publication of our Maritime Arbitration Universe in Numbers briefing, and the global maritime industry continues to face numerous challenges including geopolitical change, AI and automisation, decarbonisation, Sulphu... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Dispute Resolution -
Proposed amendments to UK insolvency regime
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After the UK government's response to a consultation on proposed improvements to the UK's insolvency regime, HFW's fraud and insolvency experts examine how the changes could significantly affect contract termination provisions. Sector/service Joins: Fraud and Insolvency -
Commodities Case Update, April 2019
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We are delighted to present the seventh Commodities Case Update, a publication which is produced quarterly. The update provides a summary of some of the key cases relevant to the commodities sector from the last few months. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Dispute Resolution -
HFW Revealed As Most Active Law Firm In English Commercial Court 2015-2018
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Independent data has revealed HFW to be the most active law firm in the English Commercial Court over the past four years. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Navigating a Shareholders Agreement: Drag Along and Tag Along Rights
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In the third of our HFW Insights: Navigating a shareholders agreement series, in which we distil common corporate and transactional issues into bite-sized insight, we explore drag along and tag along rights as contractual mechanisms of investment rea... Sector/service Joins: Corporate -
Nicholas Kazaz: Subsea Cables - Preventing and Minimising Claims Against Fishing Vessels
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Nicholas Kazaz is an experienced international commercial dispute resolution lawyer at international law firm, Holman Fenwick Willan (HFW), with experience of resolving disputes of subsea cable damage. Among others, he acts for and advises shipowner... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW continues to expand transactional offering with US Energy Partner hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its Houston office and its global transactional offering with the hire of energy partner Fernando Cano-Lasa. Sector/service Joins: Energy USA & Canada Latin America -
Can liquidated damages be recovered after termination?
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On 5 March 2019, the English Court of Appeal in Triple Point Technology Technology Inc v PTT Public Co Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 230 held that an employer could not rely on a clause imposing liquidated damages (LDs) for delay in circumstances when the cont... Sector/service Joins: Construction Asia Pacific Hong Kong London Singapore -
HFW wins Aviation Firm of the Year at ALB SE Asia Law Awards April 2019
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been named Aviation Law Firm of the Year at the Asian Legal Business SE Asia Law Awards 2019. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Asia Pacific Singapore -
Managing the risk of currency fluctuations in the international and domestic construction sector
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The completion of construction and engineering projects involve a number of uncertainties. One reason for this is that the work can take many years to complete. It is not always possible at the outset to predict how the specific environment – politi... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
HFW Launches Insurance Practice in Abu Dhabi with Partner hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing Middle East practice, launching an insurance offering in Abu Dhabi with the hire of partner Justin Whelan. Sector/service Joins: Middle East Abu Dhabi Insurance & Reinsurance -
Insurance Bulletin, April 2019 Edition 1
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Privacy concerns to be considered when collecting biometric data
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The Fair Work Commission Full Bench has allowed an employee to appeal his dismissal for repeatedly refusing to use his employer’s biometric fingerprint scanner, which monitored site attendance and tracked shifts. Sector/service Joins: Employment -
HFW Elects Global Practice Heads, Forms New Management Board
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has elected new global practice heads and formed a new Management Board, effective 1 April 2019. Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin, March 2019 Edition 2
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In this issue: 1. Regulation and legislation; 2. Court cases and arbitration; 3. HFW publications and events Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance London -
HFW Continues International Investment With Record Promotions Round
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has announced a record promotions round, making up nine new partners and three new legal directors, effective 1 April 2019. Sector/service Joins: -
Brexit - impact of a 'no deal' on english disputes with EU counter parties
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In preparation for what many now see as being the most likely outcome, the UK Government (Government) has published its guidance on how disputes will be dealt with in the event of the UK exiting the EU without it first having agreed a framework with ... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Wins Four Awards at 2019 China Business Law Awards
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has won four awards at the 2019 China Business Law Awards. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Dispute Resolution Insurance & Reinsurance Shipping Asia Pacific Shanghai -
Security of payment legislation in Australia
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Should Victoria adopt amendments introduced to the Security of Payment legislation in Queensland and NSW, which allow claimants to issue payment claims after termination of the contract? Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Default interest rates in commodities contracts – and the end of LIBOR
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Commodities contracts frequently contain default or late payment clauses, using a “LIBOR plus” measure for the rate of interest. Whilst default interest is commercially justifiable – defaulters represent a greater credit risk – when might this justif... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
HFW Launches China Transactional Practice With Partner Hire And Team Move
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has launched a China transactional practice with the hire of partner Daniel Leung and associate Ren Furong, and the relocation of partner Stephen Marais and senior associate Gordon Inkson. Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific Shanghai Corporate Hong Kong -
HFW's International Litigation Caseload Doubled In 2018, Report Shows
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A new report has revealed that HFW's international litigation caseload more than doubled in 2018. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
A rare force majeure success, but still a narrow one
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Sucden Middle-East v Yagci Denizcilik Ve Ticaret Limited Sirketi, “The Mv Muammer Yagci”1 Sector/service Joins: Commodities Dispute Resolution -
HFW Shortlisted For Management Partner, Lawyer Of The Year Awards At Legal Business Awards
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been shortlisted in two major categories at the 2019 Legal Business Awards. Sector/service Joins: -
Construction Bulletin, March 2019
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In this issue: Australia’s Capital City Infrastructure Boom – Capacity and Capability Challenges; Dispute Resolution in Kuwait; Third Party Funding in Asia Pacific: An Update; When Are Works ‘Practically Complete’?; List of Upcoming Events 2019. Sector/service Joins: Construction -
HFW Advises Banks On $725 Million Stena Financing
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has advised the mandated lead arrangers and coordinating bookrunners on a secured US$725 million revolving credit facility for Sweden's Stena AB. Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin, March 2019 Edition 1
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Navigating a shareholders agreement: ROFR or ROFO?
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In the first of our new series, HFW Insights: Navigating a shareholders agreement, in which we distil common corporate and transactional issues into bite-sized insight, we answer a commonly asked question: What is the difference between a right of fi... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Singapore Middle East -
Navigating a shareholders agreement: The key to surviving a deadlock
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In the second of our HFW Insights: Navigating a shareholders agreement series, in which we distil common corporate and transactional issues into bite-sized insight, we examine the options available to overcome deadlocks – a stressful period that is d... Sector/service Joins: Corporate -
Hong Kong Aerospace Bulletin, March 2019
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And the award goes to… Collaboration!
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With Kevin Hart stepping down, an assortment of Hollywood A-listers worked together to host this year’s Oscars®. In the world of international trade and commerce, despite confrontation dominating the headlines, 2018-19 has in fact been a time of grea... Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin, February 2019 Edition 2
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In this issue: Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration; Market Developments; HFW publications and events Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Insurance Bulletin, February 2019 Edition 1
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“Plainly wrong”: NSW Court of Appeal rejects Façade and reopens door to SOP Act Claims for insolvent contractors
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The NSW Court of Appeal has reopened the door for insolvent builders and subcontractors to make and enforce claims under the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (NSW), bringing with it the prospect of a spate of fresh secu... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Amendments to the International Arbitration Act 1974
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On 26 October 2018, small but important amendments to the International Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth) came into force. Nick Longley, Partner and Chris Cho, Associate examine the changes. Sector/service Joins: -
Danno al carico durante il viaggio: chi è il responsabile?
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Richard Mabane spiega ed analizza questa sentenza della Suprema Corte inglese dello scorso dicembre che è sicuramente di interesse per vettori e proprietari del carico. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Commodities -
Getting the Deal Through – Ship Finance Handbook 2018
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HFW has authored GTDT's latest Ship Finance handbook chapters on the UK, Sweden and the UAE. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Middle East Scandinavia -
How can victims of cyber fraud fight back?
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Judgment given in ground-breaking litigation involving the first worldwide freezing order against 'persons unknown' Sector/service Joins: Fraud and Insolvency -
Workplace relations: Key developments in Australian workplace relations law in 2018 and areas to watch in 2019
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We look back on some of the key changes, spanning developments relating to vulnerable workers, family and domestic violence leave, enterprise agreement approval, protections for whistleblowers, casual employment, flexible working arrangements request... Sector/service Joins: Employment -
Indonesia in depth: 2019 industry outlook
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Welcome to the first of our Indonesia in depth publications, a series of articles focussing on a range of current issues and emerging trends in Indonesia during 2019 across many of the country’s major industries. Sector/service Joins: Jakarta Asia Pacific -
Watson Oldco – A timely reminder of the consequences of building professionals' uninsured exposure to cladding claims
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In December 2018, NSW building certifier Watson Oldco entered into voluntary administration. The AFR reports that administrators have attributed the move largely to the result of uninsured exposure to potential claims arising from buildings with comb... Sector/service Joins: Construction Insurance & Reinsurance -
Nitrogen emissions limits in the Baltic Sea – A sign of things to come?
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In a further article in their series on regulatory and commercial issues affecting the maritime industry in the Baltic Sea1, Alex Kemp, Gudmund Bernitz and Joseph Malpas discuss upcoming Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) emissions limits under MARPOL Annex V... Sector/service Joins: Shipping London -
Commodities: Common issues in oil trading contracts – Potential pitfalls in contract formation
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This is the first in our new series, Commodities: Common issues in oil trading contracts, in which we tackle some of the issues which regularly crop up for oil trading clients. Commodity contracts are often made during quick email exchanges between t... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Geneva -
HFW Named Aviation Law Firm of the Year At Legal 500 Awards
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been named Aviation Law Firm of the Year at The Legal 500 UK Awards 2019. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
HFW Makes First Appearance In US Supreme Court
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has made its first appearance in the Supreme Court of the United States. Sector/service Joins: Energy Shipping Dispute Resolution -
Client Guide: The new English Court Disclosure Pilot, what does it mean for Litigants?
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This Client Guide outlines the mandatory English High Court Disclosure Pilot (the Pilot) which from 1 January 2019 applies to most actions in the Business and Property Courts. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Client guide: funding disputes in England and Wales
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We recognise that financing litigation and arbitration is a major consideration for clients when deciding whether to bring an action or resist a claim, no matter the size of the organisation, or merits of the claim. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW Partner Richard Neylon Named Among UK's 100 Top Lawyers
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HFW partner Richard Neylon has been named in The Lawyer's 'Hot 100' 2019. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Wins Middle East Insurance Award For Third Year Running
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been named Insurance Law Firm of the Year at the MENA IR Insurance Awards 2019. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Bunker Pack
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As of 1 January 2020, the International Maritime Organisation will introduce the Global Sulphur Cap by way of amendment to Regulation 14 of MARPOL Annex VI. This will limit the sulphur content of ships' fuel oil from 3.5% m/m to 0.5% m/m. The lower c... Sector/service Joins: -
Turkey Pack
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With a population of some 80 million, abundant natural resources, well placed ports and historically high rates of growth, Turkey is an attractive market full of opportunities Sector/service Joins: -
The Commercial Agents (Council Directive) Regulations 1993
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What is a "commodity exchange" and a "commodity market"? Sector/service Joins: -
The Companies, Limited Liability Partnerships and Partnerships (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
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As a result of the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union, important changes are required to the existing company law framework. In this briefing we examine the proposed changes to the UK’s existing company law framework to make it fit... Sector/service Joins: Corporate -
A well intentioned debate
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Former Supreme Court Justices Lord Hoffman and Lord Sumption have been debating the extent to which judges should look behind parties' choice of words to determine their intended meaning. We consider the background to this debate and its likely impac... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW advises d'Amico International Shipping on group's first JOLCO transaction
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On 18 January 2019, d'Amico Tankers D.A.C., an operating subsidiary of d'Amico International Shipping (DIS), took delivery from Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Co., Ltd. of the motor tanker "CIELO DI HOUSTON", a 75,000 dwt newbuild LR1 product tanker. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Advises Markerstudy On £185m Acquisition Of Co-Op Insurance Underwriting Business
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued its run of insurance M&A deals with advice to Markerstudy on its £185 million acquisition of the Co-op's insurance underwriting business, CIS General Insurance Limited. Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin January 2019 Edition 1
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Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: Beneath the Waves January 2019
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When it comes to autonomous marine vehicles, the focus in the press over the last two years or so has been on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS). This is likely owing to the proliferation of MASS and the widespread reporting of the regulatory s... Sector/service Joins: -
Defying Convention
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Giles Kavanagh and Ashleigh Ovland examine whether we have reached the high water mark in relation to the protections offered to airlines by the Montreal Convention, and consider what this means for airlines when choosing which claims to contest. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
Shipping insight: The Power of Innovation - Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships - The Survey
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Welcome to the first of our Power of Innovation publications, reporting on the results of a P&I sector survey conducted by HFW addressing the rise of “intelligent” vessels. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Shipping Insight: The maritime arbitration universe in numbers: will Brexit impact London's standing?
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Looking back on the rather bumpy ride of the last few years, the maritime industry is taking stock. Global economic challenges have impacted shipping as the industry is faced with significant geo-political change, including the UK’s surprise vote to... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Client guide: Letters of Credit, the UCP600 and documentary requirements
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Letters of credit (LCs) are one of the most common methods of payment for goods in international trade. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
HFW Achieves Top-Tier Rankings in The Legal 500 Asia Pacific
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HFW achieved 17 practice and 52 mentioned lawyer rankings across Asia Pacific including the Hong Kong, Jakarta, Melbourne, Perth, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney offices. Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific -
HFW expands its service capability in Australia
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has expanded its service capability in Australia with the hire of a specialist industrial relations and employment team including two new partners. Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific Australia -
HFW Trio Named Among Singapore's 20 Most Influential Lawyers
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HFW's Aaron Kok, Terence Liew and Andrew Shannon have each been named among the 20 most influential young lawyers in Singapore. Sector/service Joins: -
Medical Care for seamen: Courts continue to scrutinize the shipowner’s duties
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Courts continue to scrutinize the shipowner's duty to provide prompt and reasonable medical care to ill or injured seamen, as well as the proper rate of maintenance to be paid while recuperating. Sector/service Joins: Shipping USA & Canada -
HFW Continues To Develop Fast-Growing Middle East Practice With New Saudi Association
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to develop its fast-growing Middle East practice by entering into an association with Mohammed Al Khiliwi in Saudi Arabia. Sector/service Joins: Middle East Riyadh -
European Commission Consults on the Future of the Block Exemption Regulation for Liner Shipping Consortia
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The Block Exemption Regulation for Liner Shipping Consortia (Regulation)1 exempts certain co-operation agreements in the liner shipping sector from the prohibition on anti-competitive agreements contained at Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioni... Sector/service Joins: London Brussels Shipping -
HFW Elects New Global Management Team
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has elected Jeremy Shebson as its new Managing Partner and re-elected Richard Crump as its Senior Partner. Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific Eastern Europe & Russia Latin America USA & Canada -
'A key market for our company has just had sanctions imposed on it. What do we do?'
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Daniel Martin and Anthony Woolich suggest a simple but effective procedure for responding to the news that existing contracts may be impacted by sanctions. Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
In Review: Innovations in the Abu Dhabi and ADGM Courts in 2H 2018
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As we welcome 2019, HFW considers several key developments within the court system of the UAE’s capital, Abu Dhabi in 2H 2018, with several announcements in court innovation being unveiled in both the local courts and ADGM Courts. Sector/service Joins: -
HFW Boosts Global Admiralty & Crisis Management Team with Senior Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its market-leading Admiralty & Crisis Management team with the hire of Victor Fenwick. Sector/service Joins: London Shipping -
Supreme Court of the United States Grants Certiorari to Finally Resolve Split in the Circuits over the Availability of Punitive Damages in Seamen’s Personal Injury Suits
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In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Miles v. Apex Marine Corp.,1 federal and state courts have grappled with whether a seaman has the right to recover punitive damages under a claim of unseaworthiness. On December 7, 2018, th... Sector/service Joins: Shipping USA & Canada -
HFW Middle East Enforcement Series: Observations on the First Two Years of the Joint Judicial Committee
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For many UAE legal practitioners, the overnight creation of the Joint Judicial Committee (“JJC") in June 2016 was anticipated to be a major impediment to litigants seeking onshore recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in Dubai via the then... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Dubai Abu Dhabi Middle East -
Article 257 of the UAE Penal Code Repealed: A Welcome Change in the UAE’s Arbitration Landscape
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In April 2017, we wrote about the unintended consequences of an amendment to Article 257 of the UAE’s Penal Code (Law No. 3 of 1987) that caused serious concern amongst arbitration professionals working in the UAE. Sector/service Joins: Construction Middle East -
Autonomous Ships: Shipping 4.0
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The digital shipping revolution is well underway. Significant developments have taken place with Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) over the last few months, and the global autonomous shipping industry is predicted to grow into a $136 billion i... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Decennial Liability Insurance
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As has been reported recently, the Insurance Authority (IA) in the UAE is considering introducing mandatory requirements for decennial liability insurance cover. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dubai Middle East -
Insurance Bulletin, December 2018 Edition 1
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In this issue: Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration; HFW publications and events Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
HFW Achieves Top-Tier Rankings In Chambers And Partners UK
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a leading practice in Chambers and Partners UK, a guide to the market’s best lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: -
Adjusting accordingly how bunker adjustment factor clauses may mitigate the impacts of IMO 2020
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Following the IMO’s decision to implement amendments to MARPOL ANNEX VI (“IMO 2020”), the cost of compliant fuels is likely to rise. How will the cost and risk of price volatility be borne in the global logistics chain? We explore a legal device comm... Sector/service Joins: Singapore -
Third Party Funding for Arbitration in Hong Kong – 1 February 2019 in force
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Third Party Funding for Arbitration in 2019 looks set to be the year of third party funding for arbitration in Hong Kong. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Hong Kong -
HFW recognised as a leading international firm in chambers ASIA Pacific Guide 2019
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a leading firm in Chambers Asia-Pacific 2019, a guide to the region's best lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: -
The Geo-blocking Regulation: Is your business compliant?
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From 3 December 2018, businesses operating in the EEA need to comply with the new Geo-Blocking Regulation1. In general, the Regulation prohibits businesses from unfairly discriminating against consumers or other businesses on the grounds of nationali... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
Cargo damage during a voyage: Who is responsible?
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Volcafe Ltd and others v Compania Sud Americana De Vapores SA [2018] UKSC 611. Sector/service Joins: Commodities London -
HFW Partner Rory Butler named among most influential people in Shipping
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HFW partner Rory Butler has been named one of the 100 most influential people in the shipping industry and one of the market’s top 10 lawyers. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Helps BIMCO Draft First Cyber Clause
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has helped shipping association BIMCO draft its first cyber security clause. Sector/service Joins: Cyber Security Shipping -
Cyber Insurance Mitigating Risk
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Nic van der Reyden recently addressed a Melbourne Shipping Australia breakfast on maritime cybersecurity, mitigating risk and cybersecurity. This article is based upon his presentation Sector/service Joins: Cyber Security Shipping -
"MAKE OUR PLANET GREAT AGAIN" : ENJEUX ET PERSPECTIVE DE L'ACCORD DE PARIS POUR LE SECTEUR DE L'ÉNERGIE
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Cet article a été publié dans Fusions & Acquisitions Magazine (n° 292 - Juillet-Août 2017) et est reproduit ci-dessous avec leur autorisation. Sector/service Joins: Energy Paris -
Insurance Bulletin, November 2018 Edition 2
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In this issue: Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration; HFW publications and events Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
Client Guide: Mediation
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This Client Guide sets out what Mediation is and when and why to use it. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Revealed As Most Active Commercial Litigation Firm
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The Lawyer’s latest Litigation Tracker has revealed HFW to be the most active law firm for commercial litigation in the English courts. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Commodities Case Update, November 2018
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We are delighted to present the sixth Commodities Case Update which is being provided to a small group of clients quarterly. The update provides a summary of some of the key cases relevant to the commodities sector from the last few months. Sector/service Joins: Commodities Dispute Resolution -
Client guide: English Civil Litigation Procedure
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In any legal dispute there will be situations where recourse to alternative forms of dispute resolution such as mediation are not appropriate for resolving the dispute and where the parties may prefer not to arbitrate their dispute. In these situati... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Risk and reward in using Distributed Ledger Technology: Legal issues for commodity companies
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The commercial possibilities of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) are constantly evolving as participants in all industries consider how its use can address their business needs. In a commodities context, DLT has huge potential. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Bunker contamination in Singapore – The flow of contaminated bunkers heads east
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Following our recent Briefing on bunker contamination in the US Gulf new reports of contaminated bunkers in Singapore have given rise to further concerns, highlighting the potential inadequacy of the conventional testing regime and the need for indus... Sector/service Joins: Shipping USA & Canada Singapore -
Co-leasing practices in the PRC
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The practice of "co-leasing" has been a feature of some cross-border aircraft operating leases to PRC airlines for a number of years. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Asia Pacific -
LNG as a marine fuel: New technology, standards and challenges for Singapore’s maritime industry
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With the IMO 2020 sulphur cap approaching, and the industry requirement to reduce emissions, the use of LNG as a marine fuel is slowly gaining traction. Sector/service Joins: Energy Asia Pacific Singapore -
What is a Reasonable Salvage Settlement? The Importance of Australian Law Advice
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It is not often that an Australian court considers as many maritime law issues as examined in the recent Federal Court judgment, Mount Isa Mines Ltd v The Ship “THOR COMMANDER” [2018] FCA 1326. The judgment is particularly noteworthy because it is th... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Australia Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution -
HFW Successfully Defends IKON Against $370 Million Fraud Claim
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has successfully defended a substantial case of alleged fraud against London-based IKON Finance Ltd and others, originally involving claims of over US$370 million in damages. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Fraud and Insolvency -
Insurance Bulletin November 2018 Edition 1
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Payer can adjudicate true value in response to a smash and grab adjudication
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The Court of Appeal's highly anticipated decision in the case of S&T (UK) Ltd v Grove Developments Ltd1 was handed down by Sir Rupert Jackson today. Sector/service Joins: Construction Dispute Resolution -
The rise of HFW Australia
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Learn more about one of the fastest growing regions in HFW's selected sectors. Sector/service Joins: Australia Asia Pacific -
HFW - Entrepreneurial. Creative. Collaborative.
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An overview of who we are and what we do. Sector/service Joins: -
Singapore and China's Memorandum of Guidance: Greater clarity over reciprocal enforcement of Court Judgments
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The Supreme Court of Singapore and the Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China signed a Memorandum of Guidance (MOG) in September 2018. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Asia Pacific Shipping -
Aerospace: Brexit Update
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In previous briefings1 we have highlighted the central issues for the aviation and aerospace industries which will need resolution in the run up to the UK's departure from the EU. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
The HKIAC in action to issue updated Administered Rules 2018
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With flawless timing to catch HK Arbitration Week 2018, the updated Administered Arbitration Rules (2018 Rules) will enter into force on 1 November 2018. The 2018 Rules continue the HKIAC's 'light touch' policy, now with amendments to reflect develo... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Expands New Abu Dhabi Office With Senior Infrastructure Partner Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing Middle East practice with the hire of senior infrastructure partner Richard Lucas. Sector/service Joins: Abu Dhabi -
Brexit and personal data – how to keep business flowing
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Unless a deal is struck it is likely that after Brexit extra measures (such as ‘Standard Contractual Clauses’) will need to be put in place to legitimise transfers of personal data from organisations and individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Data Protection -
HFW Achieves Top-Tier Rankings In The Legal 500 UK
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a leading practice in the 2018-19 edition of The Legal 500 UK, a guide to the country’s best lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: -
Getting The Deal Through – Ports & Terminals Handbook 2018
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HFW has edited GTDT's latest Ports & Terminals handbook and contributed to chapters on the UK and the UAE. Sector/service Joins: Ports & Terminals Shipping -
All Change – Are you compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation? Special Update, September 2018
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Organisations (including many outside the EEA) have now had more than three months to get used to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which overhauled a data protection regime dating from 1995. Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Data Protection -
Dalamd Limited v Butterworth Spengler Commercial Limited: Causation and Some Limited Relief for Brokers
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In Dalamd Limited v Butterworth Spengler Commercial Limited1, the Commercial Court looked at, among other things, causation issues arising in negligence claims against insurance brokers. Whilst the court found that the defendant had breached its duty... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
Vietnam ratifies the Montréal Convention 1999
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Ratification of the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air, Montréal, 28 May 1999 (MC99) should lead to greater consistency and clarity in the claims handling process (particularly in relation to calculating... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Asia Pacific -
HFW Highly Commended As Law Firm Of The Year At Law Society Awards
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been Highly Commended as Law Firm of the Year at The Law Society Excellence Awards 2018. Sector/service Joins: -
Iran sanctions: The English Court steers a course
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In our previous briefing1, we looked at the challenges of complying with EU and US sanctions from 5 November 2018, when further US sanctions are re-imposed, and the need to steer a course between the divergent courses which are being taken by the EU ... Sector/service Joins: Middle East Dubai USA & Canada London -
Insurance Bulletin, October 2018 Edition 1
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Directors beware – continuing representations mean continuing responsibility: Inter Export LLC v Jonathan Townley and Yaroslavna Lasytsya [2018]
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A recent decision of the Court of Appeal provides useful guidance for directors in the context of representations made to third parties. Inter Export LLC v Jonathan Townley and Yaroslavna Lasytsya emphasises directors' continuing responsibilities whe... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Continues to Expand Global Energy Practice with Senior Project Finance Partner Hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing global energy practice with the hire of senior project finance partner Andrew Thomas. Sector/service Joins: Energy London -
Brexit – Impact of a 'no deal' scenario on EU cross-border insolvencies
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On 13 September 2018, the UK Government published a guidance notice (Guidance) on handling civil disputes, including cross-border insolvencies, in the event that the UK exits the EU without having first agreed a framework for ongoing civil judicial c... Sector/service Joins: Fraud and Insolvency EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Commodities RESTRUCTURING HUB -
Good Faith in the UAE: an Insurance Focus
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Insurance professionals will be familiar with the concept of good faith. There are, however, differences between common law and civil law systems as to the nature of the duty and the time of application. This article highlights the key points to bear... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
Added security comes at a price: The impact of Singapore's Cybersecurity Act
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A series of cyber attacks was mounted on several government websites in Singapore in 2013, in which the websites of the Prime Minister, government schools and the People's Action Party's Community Foundation were defaced. Sector/service Joins: Energy Singapore Asia Pacific -
Indonesia's OJK issues new rule on public company takeover
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On 25 July 2018, the Indonesian Financial Services Authority (OJK) issued OJK Rule No. 9/POJK.04/2018 on Public Company Takeovers (OJK Rule 9/2018), which revokes the Head of Capital Market Supervisory Board and Financial Institution (Bapep... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Singapore Jakarta Asia Pacific -
IMO 2020: Legal considerations for unprecedented changes
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The recent spate of vessel bunker contamination cases in the US Gulf and Singapore has brought into sharp focus the unprecedented standards to be affected by MARPOL Annex VI (commonly referred to as "IMO 2020"): the implementation of a glob... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Singapore -
HFW broadens client offering with launch of consulting business
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has broadened its offering to clients with the launch of a standalone consulting business called HFW Consulting. Sector/service Joins: London -
Client guide: enforcement
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If you are going to spend time, money and resources pursuing or defending a court or arbitration claim, then you need to consider what you are going to get out of it in the long run. What can you do with an English court judgment or arbitration award... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW launches 20th international office with double Abu Dhabi partner hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing international network with the launch of a new office in Abu Dhabi and the hire of two partners. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Construction Commodities Energy Insurance & Reinsurance Shipping Asia Pacific Eastern Europe & Russia Latin America Middle East USA & Canada London Brussels Dubai Hong Kong Houston Singapore -
HFW helps BIMCO draft first 2020 bunker clause
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has helped shipping association BIMCO draft its first clause relating to the International Maritime Organization's 2020 sulphur emission rules. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Taking cover – mandatory decennial liability insurance in the UAE
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According to recent news reports, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Insurance Authority (the IA) is planning to introduce legislation to require contractors, engineers and architects to obtain compulsory decennial liability insurance. Sector/service Joins: Construction Insurance & Reinsurance -
2018 Yachts Market Briefing
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With the 2018 Mediterranean yacht season fast closing and attention turning to the yacht shows and winter cruising grounds, we publish our latest market briefing covering a range of topical subjects from the transport of yachts, developments in Pana... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
HFW Continues International Expansion with Houston Energy Partner Hire
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Sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its Houston office and its global energy practice with the hire of partner Derek J. Anchondo. Sector/service Joins: Houston USA & Canada Energy -
HFW wins court of appeal victory in landmark Australian dispute
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has helped Rio Tinto subsidiary Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd successfully overturn a Supreme Court decision in a dispute that will have significant implications for insolvency proceedings in Australia. Sector/service Joins: Asia Pacific -
Enforcement Pack
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This Pack is the second edition of the enforcement series and has been produced as so often our clients go through expensive and time-consuming litigation only to be left stuck with an English Court judgment or arbitration award which they are unable... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
HFW Grows international insurance and reinsurance capability with partner hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its insurance and reinsurance practice with the recruitment of Carol-Ann Burton, who has re-joined the firm as a partner in London. Carol-Ann previously worked as a consultant to the firm in London and ... Sector/service Joins: London -
A New Frontier for AML Regulation: The Fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive and Cryptocurrencies
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Cryptocurrencies have been in existence for almost a decade, proliferating in number since the initial launch of BitCoin to approximately 2,000. Whereas the main distinction for the average consumer between fiat currencies is likely to be their value... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Financial Services Regulation Fraud and Insolvency Digital Trade -
The Montréal Convention 1999 in Nepal: Greater certainty regarding passenger claims or added confusion?
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On 23 August 2018, the Federal Parliament of Nepal passed a proposal to accede to the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules for International Carriage by Air 1999 (MC99). Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Asia Pacific -
In-House Counsel and Legal Privilege in the Dubai International Financial Centre
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Issues surrounding the breadth of legal professional privilege under English law are once again in the spotlight following last week's decision of the Court of Appeal in ENRC v SFO. HFW's briefing on that decision can be found here. But developm... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Dispute Resolution Dubai Abu Dhabi Middle East -
Murky waters: Six key maritime issues to understand before doing business in Indonesia
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Indonesia is one of the fastest-growing shipping zones, exporting 32% of the world's coal cargoes1. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Jakarta Asia Pacific -
Insurance Bulletin, September 2018 Edition 1
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In this issue: Regulation and legislation; Court cases and arbitration; Market Developments; HFW publications and events Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dispute Resolution -
Construction Bulletin September 2018
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In this issue: China’s International Commercial Courts; The new UAE Arbitration Law; Smart contracts in the construction industry; ‘No oral modification’ clauses in construction contracts; Conferences and events. Sector/service Joins: Construction -
Corporate governance update September 2018
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In early 2017 we reported that following various scandals affecting business in the UK, the Government had made it clear that it intended to crack down on unacceptable boardroom behaviour. Sector/service Joins: Energy London -
ENRC v SFO Court of Appeal Judgment
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In a decision handed down today and which will be welcomed by the legal community and clients alike, the English Court of Appeal has allowed Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation's (ENRC) appeal against a highly controversial earlier Commercial Cour... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
HFW Continues Asia-Pacific Push with Senior Partner Move
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Sector-focused law firm HFW has further strengthened its fast-growing Asia-Pacific practice by relocating senior partner Noel Campbell from London to Hong Kong. Sector/service Joins: Hong Kong Asia Pacific Fraud and Insolvency -
HFW named most active firm for arbitration-related litigation
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The Lawyer's latest Litigation Tracker report has revealed HFW to be the most active law firm for arbitration-related litigation. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution -
Sanctions contre l'Iran : la riposte européenne
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L'annonce par le Président Trump, le 8 mai 2018, du retrait des Etats-Unis du JCPOA1 a placé les Etats-Unis et l'Union européenne sur des chemins divergents à l'égard de l'Iran. Au moment où les Etats-Unis annonçaient que les sanctions qui avaient... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Legal Costs - A Clients Guide
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Achieving the desired outcome for your disputes matter is what our lawyers do best. Achieving the best possible costs recovery, or minimizing the costs exposure, is where our Costs Team ensure we offer a complete service that sets us apart from many ... Sector/service Joins: -
Iran Sanctions: Steering a course through difficult waters
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President Trump's announcement on 8 May 2018 that the US would withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)1 set the EU and US on divergent paths with respect to Iran. At the same time as the US indicated that the US sanctions which h... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
HFW Advises RBS and NatWest on $2.2 Billion Danaos Restructuring
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has advised The Royal Bank of Scotland plc and NatWest Markets plc in connection with the US$2.2 billion debt restructuring of Danaos Corporation and its subsidiaries. Sector/service Joins: -
Say 'NON' to Strict Liability
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Following the dismissal of the appeal1 against the High Court's decision in Committeri v Club Mediterranee SA2 and Generali IARD SA (July 2016 briefing), we reinforce our advice to any companies providing package holidays to France to ensure that the... Sector/service Joins: Shipping London Paris Houston -
SGX announces amendments for mineral, oil and gas listing rules
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In response to a consultation paper published on 31 January 2018 (Consultation Paper), the Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX) has amended its listing requirements for the mineral, oil and gas (MOG) sector. These rules are due to take effect o... Sector/service Joins: Energy Singapore Asia Pacific -
The Evolution of Insurance Related Dispute Resolution in the UAE
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A recent decision of the Abu Dhabi Court of First Instance has shed new light on the interpretation of recent legislation governing insurance related disputes in the UAE. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Dubai Middle East -
Clarification on Admitted Reinsurer Tax Status in Brazil
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A recent decision issued by the Brazilian Tax Authority (RFB) has brought some clarity to the tax regime which is applicable to admitted reinsurers operating in Brazil. The decision distinguishes, for the taxation purposes, between those admitted rei... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Brazil Latin America -
Hong Kong Insurance and Reinsurance
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In this briefing, Rosie Ng provides an update on developments in the insurance sector in Hong Kong. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Hong Kong Asia Pacific -
HFW named Market-Leading Insurance Practice in Chambers Latin America 2019
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a market-leading insurance practice in the 2019 edition of Chambers Latin America, a guide to the region's best lawyers and law firms. Sector/service Joins: Latin America Latin America -
The Belt and Road Initiative: Dispute Resolution along The Belt And Road
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is made up of a Silk Road Economic Belt and a 21st Century Maritime Road. It is estimated that US$5trillion of capital will be required for the infrastructure projects which currently form part of the BRI. The BRI i... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Hong Kong -
English court clarifies responsibility for concurrent delays
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On 30 July 2018, the Court of Appeal issued its decision in North Midland v Cyden [2018] EWCA Civ 1774. The court upheld the decision of the High Court permitting an employer to rely on a clause allocating responsibility for concurrent delay to the&n... Sector/service Joins: Construction London Hong Kong Singapore -
US offshore wind energy at dawn: The interaction between offshore wind projects and The Jones Act
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The United States is home to one of the largest and fastest growing wind markets in the world, according to US Department of Energy reports. A drive across west Texas, Oklahoma or the plains of Kansas will reveal large scale wind farms. Sector/service Joins: USA & Canada Shipping -
Changing of the Guard: The Supreme Court and judicial interpretation of the law
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With the recent and imminent departure of many of the Supreme Courts bench of the United Kingdom, questions abound as to the future of Supreme Court justices and their role in shaping the law. Sector/service Joins: -
The Shipping Law Review (fifth edition)
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The Shipping Law Review (fifth edition) is an important legal book for the shipping sector, edited again by HFW. Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Clearlake Shipping v Privocean Shipping: Master's negligence – no recourse for charterers
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In Clearlake Shipping Pte Ltd v Privocean Shipping Ltd, the English High Court found that charterers had no recourse against owners for the master's negligent decision to require additional cargo strapping in one of the ship's cargo holds – a de... Sector/service Joins: Shipping Singapore -
Insurance Bulletin, August 2018
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Brexit Update: Deal or No Deal?
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Recent developments – or lack thereof – in Brexit negotiations, have made a ‘no-deal’ Brexit a significant possibility. All companies likely to be affected by Brexit should now be putting in place contingency plans to safeguard their business in the ... Sector/service Joins: EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory -
HFW continues to expand global construction team with London Partner hire
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Sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing global construction practice with the hire of partner Kijong Nam. Sector/service Joins: Construction -
US/EU Covered Agreement: Can the UK benefit from Brexit?
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The Bilateral Agreement between the United States of America and the European Union on Prudential Measures Regarding Insurance and Reinsurance, or the covered agreement as it is more commonly known (Covered Agreement), was signed on 22 September 20... Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
Hong Kong prepares for a drone invasion
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In April this year, Hong Kong’s Civil Aviation Department (the CAD) launched a public consultation into proposals to further develop regulations for the use of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in and above Hong Kong. We submitted a paper setting out our... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Hong Kong Asia Pacific -
HFW Sector Experts Named In Inaugural Legal 500 Hall Of Fame
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has seen five partners named in The Legal 500's inaugural Hall of Fame UK. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance Shipping Fraud and Insolvency Commodities -
Second Editions of the FIDIC Rainbow Suite
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On 5th December 2017, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) launched the Second Editions of the three major forms of contract in the FIDIC Rainbow Suite at the FIDIC International Users’ Conference in London. This bulletin prov... Sector/service Joins: Construction -
HFW Recognised as Market-leading Yachts and Private Jets Practice in Chambers HNW 2018
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been recognised as a market-leading Yachts, Superyachts and Private Jets practice in the 2018 edition of Chambers and Partners HNW. Sector/service Joins: Shipping Aerospace -
HFW Advises Greek State on €535m Sale of Gas Transmission Operator
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has advised the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) on the €535 million sale of its 66 percent stake in Greek natural gas transmission system operator DESFA. Sector/service Joins: Corporate -
HFW Middle East enforcement series – The draft Hague Judgments Convention
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A new Convention for the enforcement of foreign judgments is on the horizon. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Middle East Dubai Logistics -
HFW Advises TSX-Listed Savaria On Acquisition of Garaventa Accessibility
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has advised Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Savaria Corporation on its acquisition of Garaventa Accessibility AG. Sector/service Joins: -
Rhian Clayton-Payne Named 'Rising Star' By Airfinance Journal
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HFW aerospace senior associate Rhian Clayton-Payne has been recognised as a Rising Star by Airfinance Journal in its Guide to Aviation Lawyers 2018. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Singapore Asia Pacific -
HFW continues M&A run with advice on major logistics deal
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued its run of M&A deals, advising The Pallet Network (TPN) on its £52.8 million sale to Eddie Stobart Logistics plc by mid-market private equity firm LDC. Sector/service Joins: Logistics Commercial Corporate -
Sub-sea cable damage claims – a legal perspective
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In the International Union of Marine Insurance (IUMI) Eye Newsletter March 2018 edition, Mike McLachlan of LOC considered the technical and practical implications of sub-sea cable damage claims. In this briefing, Nicholas Kazaz of HFW, considers the ... Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution London Energy Shipping -
Commodities Case Update, July 2018
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We are delighted to present the fifth Commodities Case Update which is being provided to a small group of clients quarterly. The update provides a summary of ten of the key cases relevant to the commodities sector from the last few months. Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
HFW ranked as one of UK's top social mobility employers
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has once again been ranked as one of the UK's top social mobility employers. Sector/service Joins: -
Claims under Section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 – Court of Appeal rules on service out of the jurisdiction
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In the recent decision of Orexim Trading Limited v Mahavir Port and Terminal Private Limited1, the Court of Appeal has ruled that the Court does have power to permit service of a claim under section 423 of the Insolvency Act 1986 outside England and... Sector/service Joins: Ports & Terminals Dispute Resolution Commodities RESTRUCTURING HUB -
A practical guide to hedging – should you hedge or already be hedged when your counterparty defaults?
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Hedging is an issue that is central to the business of many commodity traders. It is also a topic that is the subject of increasing focus in the legal industry, both in its deployment in argument in disputes and in commentaries on the available case&... Sector/service Joins: Commodities London -
Autonomous Ships: Successfully navigating through the shallows?
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In this, the latest in our series on Maritime Autonomous Surface Ship (MASS), we provide an update on news from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) on its regulatory scoping exercise; take a look at some of the insurance issues arising as t... Sector/service Joins: Shipping London Paris -
The extension of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime – Impact on energy and oil market participants
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Policy Statement (PS18/14) and near final rules on the extension of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR), which is replacing the current "approved persons regime", to all FSMA‑author... Sector/service Joins: Commodities London -
Insurance Bulletin, July 2018 Edition 2
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OFAC Sanctions on Russia and Iran
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Global aluminium trader United Company RUSAL PLC ("Rusal") and several other Russian tycoons, companies and allies of President Vladimir Putin1 were the target of blocking sanctions by OFAC on 6 April 2018 ("April 2018 Sanctions"), following Treasury... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Brave New World: International Cryptocurrency Regulation
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Cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology have hit the headlines in recent months. Governments and policymakers from key jurisdictions are drafting and publishing guidance to govern the issuance and regulation of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) and cr... Sector/service Joins: Commodities London -
鹰与龙:美中最新关税政策的背景、涵义及合法性 (2018年4月)
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近期特朗普推出对钢铁、铝采取的关税措施,主要对中国产品产生影响,有可能会为其在2018年中期选举前提高支持率。但由于中国采取了反关税措施,特朗普进而采取的技术性关税壁垒很可能会在中美间导致一场贸易战。 Sector/service Joins: -
It’s a risky business, offshore drilling, but who bears the risk under a rig contract when force majeure strikes?
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Judgment in Seadrill Ghana Operations Ltd -v- Tullow Ghana Ltd was handed down by Mr Justice Teare in the Commercial Court on 2 July in a case in which HFW (Simon Blows and Vanessa Tattersall) acted. Sector/service Joins: Dispute Resolution Energy Oil and Gas -
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Watch and listen to HFW lawyers in specially made videos about the latest news, issues and trends affecting the markets in which our clients operate. Sector/service Joins: -
Bunker contamination in the US Gulf – Legal and practical implications
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Following recent reports of marine fuel contamination on an unprecedented scale in the US Gulf Region, we briefly consider some of the issues arising for those affected parties, including shipowners, time charterers and bunker suppliers Sector/service Joins: Shipping USA & Canada -
HFW continues international expansion with senior Brussels partner hire July 2018
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its Brussels office with the hire of senior partner Emmanuel Roger France. Sector/service Joins: Brussels Finance Insurance & Reinsurance -
Insurance Bulletin, July 2018 Edition 1
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HFW continues Middle East expansion with senior partner hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its fast-growing Middle East practice with the hire of senior disputes partner James Harbridge. Sector/service Joins: Dubai Dispute Resolution Middle East -
Adapting to changes in the Indonesian regulatory regime
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At Coaltrans Asia, we talked about recent changes in the Indonesian regulatory regime for coal trading and shipping, the effects these changes might have on your sale contracts, and some practical steps parties can take to protect against changes in ... Sector/service Joins: Commodities Asia Pacific Jakarta -
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Published on a regular basis, our bulletins cover a range of issues and trends affecting industry sectors and specific legal services, as well as legal case updates. Sector/service Joins: -
Force Majeure Pack June 2018
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The dedicated Force Majeure Pack will focus on English law and will cover, general principles of force majeure, recent case law, the relationship between force majeure and the doctrine of frustration, contemporaneous events and general guidance. Sector/service Joins: Commodities London -
HFW wins precedent-setting derivatives case
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has successfully defended its client in a precedent-setting derivatives case involving proceedings in Denmark and before the English High Court. Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin, June 2018 Edition 3
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HFW appointed as Honorary Solicitors to Worshipful Company of Shipwrights
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has been appointed as Honorary Solicitors to one of the City of London's oldest livery companies, The Worshipful Company of Shipwrights. Sector/service Joins: Shipping London -
Fifth Circuit Sides with Insurer's Denial of 30-Month Late Hail Damage Claim
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The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled this month in favor of Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London in a property coverage matter related to hail damage claims asserted by a North Texas hotel. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd'... Sector/service Joins: -
Emerging threats in a changing world: Beijing Convention on aviation security to enter into force on 1 July 2018
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Following the recent ratification by the Turkish government, the International Civil Aviation Organisation ("ICAO") has announced that the Convention on the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Relating to International Civil Aviation (the "Beijing Conventio... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Singapore -
HFW continues international expansion with Brazil Cooperation and Senior Partner hire
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its Latin America presence by hiring Brazil's leading aviation partner, Julio Costa, and entering into a cooperation arrangement with a newly established local firm, CAL. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Brazil Latin America -
HFW Boosts Greek Ship Finance with Partner Appointment and Senior Associate Hire as Office Celebrates 25th Anniversary
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Sector-focused law firm HFW has boosted its leading Greek ship finance practice with the promotion of Piraeus consultant Kalliopi Karaiskaki to partner and the hire of senior associate Dimitra Gelti. Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin June 2018 Edition 2
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HFW advises on Australia's largest integrated off-grid solar array project
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A HFW team led by Partner Simon Adams advised Sandfire Resources on what will be Australia's largest off-grid solar array project and one of the largest used in the mining industry anywhere in the world. Sector/service Joins: Energy Projects Mining Perth Asia Pacific Sydney Melbourne -
HFW continues to expand global construction practice with Hong Kong Partner hire
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Sector-focused law firm HFW has continued to expand its global construction practice with the hire of partner Ben Bury. Sector/service Joins: Construction -
A 'truly fundamental' issue of contract law: does a 'no oral modifications' clause work?
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All but the shortest of professionally written contracts will contain a "no oral modifications" (NOM) clause: usually this says that the contract can only be varied in writing and signed by the authorised representatives of the parties. There has alw... Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin, June 2018 Edition 1
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Not by the letter...Can a seller terminate if a letter of credit is not opened on time?
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In a recent arbitration decision a tribunal rejected the general principle that the obligation on a buyer under a sale contract to open a letter of credit is a condition entitling the seller to terminate if breached. Sector/service Joins: Commodities London -
Can there ever be a bad time to demand the provision of security?
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Grindrod Shipping Pte Ltd (t/a Island View Shipping) v. Hyundai Merchant Marine Co Ltd [2018] EWHC 1284 (Comm) Sector/service Joins: Shipping Dispute Resolution London Hong Kong -
HFW Accompanies UK Shipping Minister on official visit to China
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Global, sector-focused law firm HFW has accompanied the UK's Minister for Shipping, Nusrat Ghani MP, on an official visit to China. Sector/service Joins: Shipping London Hong Kong -
Getting prepared for the 2018 Yachting Season
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With the early season yacht shows over and thoughts turning to summer cruising, now is the time for those in yachting to consider both recent changes and possible challenges ahead. Sector/service Joins: Yachts London -
Iran sanctions: Aerospace focus
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Stakeholders within the aviation sector will be impacted by the reimposition of US sanctions against Iran. Further to HFW's earlier update on President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and reinstate the... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Middle East -
UAE Cabinet issued a decision approving a New Visa Regime
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On 20 May 2018 the UAE Cabinet issued a decision approving a new visa regime in the UAE to attract "international investments and exceptional talent" which would allow investors, professionals and specialists in medical, scientific research and techn... Sector/service Joins: Middle East Dubai -
Retour sur l'obligation d'information Mai 2018
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En septembre dernier, nous vous présentions la nouvelle obligation faite à l'ensemble des sociétés immatriculées auprès du Registre du Commerce et des Sociétés (à l'exception des sociétés dont les titres sont admis aux négociations sur un marché régl... Sector/service Joins: Corporate Paris -
The Murray Report – Review of Security of Payment Laws – Summary of Findings
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On 22 December 2017 John Murray AM delivered his report on the national review of the Security of Payment Laws in force around the country to the Honourable Craig Laundy MP, Minister for Small and Family Business, the Workplace and Deregulation. Sector/service Joins: Construction Australia -
Respect for international aviation conventions in Brazil gathers force
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In what appears to be an increasing trend towards respect of the Montreal Convention regime in Brazil, there have been two further interesting decisions in April. This is encouraging although some uncertainty still remains. Sector/service Joins: Aerospace Brazil Latin America -
Insurance Bulletin, May 2018 Edition 2
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HFW continues insurance M&A run with advice to private equity firm Livingbridge in Coversure MBO
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International law firm HFW has continued its run of insurance M&A deals, advising private equity firm Livingbridge on the management buyout of one of the UK's leading independent insurance brokers, Coversure Insurance Services Group (CISG). Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance -
FOSFA arbitration rules simplified
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The FOSFA Rules of Arbitration and Appeal (the Rules) have been revised to simplify the time limits for bringing claims; to provide for a three person tribunal where a sole arbitrator is not selected; and to introduce a requirement for payment of a d... Sector/service Joins: Commodities -
Alerte sanctions internationales: Sanctions Americaines contre l’Iran
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Le Président Trump a annoncé, le 8 mai 2018, que les Etats-Unis se retiraient du JCPOA, et édicté un National Security Presidential Memorandum qui entame le processus de remise en place de sanctions à l’encontre de différents secteurs économiques ira... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
Sanctions Update: US sanctions on Iran, 8 May 2018
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President Trump announced on 8 May 2018 that the US would pull out of the JCPOA. He issued a National Security Presidential Memorandum that begins the process of re-imposing sanctions on areas including Iran’s energy, petrochemical and financial sect... Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation -
New LFSA Guidelines, February 2018
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On 1 January 2018, the Labuan Financial Services Authority (LFSA) issued Guidelines on the Establishment and Operations of Labuan Leasing Business (the Guidelines). The Guidelines seek to clarify the requirements for Labuan companies carrying out lea... Sector/service Joins: Aerospace -
HFW recognised as a leading global insurance practice by industry guide
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Sector-focused law firm HFW has been recognised as one of the market's leading global insurance practices by Who's Who Legal. Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin, May 2018 Edition 1
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LNG Bunkering in the Baltic Sea – A question of when, not if?
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In this further article on issues affecting the maritime industry in the Baltic Sea (our previous articles can be found here and here), we look at market developments regarding Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as bunker fuel. Sector/service Joins: Shipping London -
US Coast Guard Monetary Thresholds For Reporting Marine Casualties and Serious Marine Incidents Increased Commencing 18 April 2018
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The United States Coast Guard (“Coast Guard”) published a final rule on March 19, 2018 announcing changes in monetary thresholds for reporting of a Serious Marine Incident (SMI) and a Marine Casualty. As listed on CG-2692B the monetary threshold for ... Sector/service Joins: -
Insurance Bulletin, April 2018 Edition 1
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Trade in a Cold Climate – How can you protect yourself
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This year is proving to be an unpredictable and turbulent one for international state relations, with the imposition of tariffs by the US and China and the sanctions imposed by the US against various Russian individuals and companies being prominent ... Sector/service Joins: Commodities London -
Défaut de performance énergétique : nouveau texte, nouvelles questions, Octobre 2015
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La loi n° 2015-992 du 17 août 2015 relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte, en insérant dans le Code de la Construction et de l’Habitation un nouvel article L111-13-1, est venue préciser les conditions dans lesquelles la respons... Sector/service Joins: Construction Insurance & Reinsurance Paris -
Levée des sanctions contre l’Iran : ce qu’il faut savoir, Février 2016
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16 janvier 2016 : l’Agence Internationale de l’Energie Atomique confirme que l’Iran a rempli les conditions du Plan d’action global1 permettant la mise en œuvre d’une série de mesures de libéralisation des échanges. Sector/service Joins: International Trade Regulation Insurance & Reinsurance Middle East -
Pesée des conteneurs : nouvelle réglementation SOLAS, Avril 2016
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Face à la multiplication des incidents causés par les fausses déclarations du poids des conteneurs, l’Organisation Maritime Internationale (OMI) a adopté en 2014 un amendement à la Convention internationale sur la Sauvegarde de la vie en mer (SOLAS) ... Sector/service Joins: Ports & Terminals Shipping Logistics -
THE GLOBAL SANTOSH: chi supporta il costo di un sequestro erroneamente ottenuto in un contratto di noleggio a tempo? Chiarimento dalla corte sul significato di “charterers’ agents”, Maggio 2016
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Lo scorso mercoledì 11 maggio, con una significativa sentenza, la Supreme Court inglese ha ribaltato le precedenti sentenze emesse dalle corti inferiori, rinvenendo che il sequestro navale da parte di un sub-noleggiatore basato su un reclamo di contr... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
L’impact de la réforme du droit des contrats en France en matière de construction, Mai 2016
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L’Ordonnance n° 2016-131 du 10 février 2016 portant réforme du droit des contrats, du régime général et de la preuve des obligations a été publiée au Journal Officiel du 11 février 2016 (l’“Ordonnance”). Il faudra attendre le 1er octobre 2016 pour qu... Sector/service Joins: Construction Paris -
Pesée des conteneurs : publication de l’arrêté d’application pour la France, Juin 2016
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L’amendement au Chapitre VI de la Convention internationale sur la sauvegarde de la vie en mer (SOLAS), qui rentrera en vigueur le 1er juillet 2016, prévoit l’obligation pour les chargeurs de déclarer au transporteur la masse brute vérifiée de chaque... Sector/service Joins: Ports & Terminals Shipping Logistics -
Brexit : quelques mesures que les sociétés d’assurance ou de réassurance peuvent prendre dès maintenant, Septembre 2016
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Il n’aura échappé à personne qu’à l’occasion du référendum historique sur la sortie du Royaume-Uni de l’Union Européenne (Brexit), l’électorat britannique, par une courte majorité, a choisi de quitter l’UE. Sector/service Joins: Insurance & Reinsurance EU, Competition and Trade Regulatory Paris -
Faillite d’Hanjin : quelles actions pour les intérêts cargaison ? Septembre 2016
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Le 1er septembre 2016 la compagnie Hanjin Shipping Co Ltd (“Hanjin”) première compagnie coréenne de transport maritime par conteneur a sollicité la protection de la loi coréenne sur les faillites et une procédure collective, dite de “réhabilitation”,... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Bollettino Marittimo – Edizione Speciale Il caso ATLANTIK CONFIDENCE: gli Assicuratori del Carico “rompono i limiti” in una recente sentenza finora senza precedenti, Novembre 2016
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A seguito dell’incendio e dell’affondamento della portarinfuse ATLANTIK CONFIDENCE, occorso a largo della costa dell’Oman nell’aprile 2013, gli armatori della nave cercarono di costituire un fondo di limitazione ai sensi della Convention on Limitatio... Sector/service Joins: Shipping -
Les nouvelles règles en matière d'immunité d'exécution des Etats étrangers suite à la Loi Sapin 2, Janvier 2017
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La Loi Sapin 2 est venue modifier les règles relatives à l’immunité d’exécution des Etats étrangers devant les juridictions françaises en créant de nouvelles conditions liées à l’obtention de mesures conservatoires et d’exécution forcée à l’égard de ... Sector/service Joins: Paris Energy Construction Africa