Ben Bryant

About Ben

Ben advises clients across the spectrum of maritime decarbonisation legal issues. He also specialises in maritime trade disputes, positioning him to advise clients on emerging decarbonisation and sustainability-related disputes.

Ben’s transactional decarbonisation experience includes:

• Advising an international shipping company on contractual and other issues relating to a large-scale, carbon insetting project involving the consumption of EU RED II-certified biofuels.
• Advising owners and charterers on contractual issues relating to CII, EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime, including under time and voyage charterparties.
• Drafting FuelEU Maritime pooling agreements on behalf of an owner operating LNG-fuelled vessels.

Ben’s contentious decarbonisation experience includes:

• Advising clients in relation to disputes relating to payment for EU ETS Allowances under time and trip-time charterparties.
• Advising an energy company in relation to the negotiation of CII provisions, under long-term LNG time charterparties.