Speakers
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Mr Haridass Ajaib Haridass Ajaib is the immediate past President of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. A practising lawyer in the admiralty field for the past 30 years, he specialises in admiralty litigation as well as ship financing; a member of SIAC Panel of Arbitrators; an accredited mediator of Singapore Mediation Centre; a Magistrate of the Subordinate Courts, Singapore and a Justice of the Peace. |
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Mr Bill Amos Bill is a partner and notary public at Ince & Co. in Hong Kong. He is a contributing editor of Hong Kong Civil Procedure in respect of admiralty proceedings, Chitty on Contracts: Hong Kong Specific Contracts, and is the co-author of the Hong Kong chapter of The Maritime Law Handbook (Kluwer). Bill is also a member of the executive committee of the HK Maritime Law Association and the Admiralty Court Users’ Committee. Bill advises shipowners, charterers, insurers and financial institutions on matters involving charterparties and bills of lading, marine insurance, ship finance and sale & purchase. |
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Mr Peter Appel Peter Appel, born 1961, is the managing partner of Gorrissen Federspiel. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen in 1985, and in the same year he took a special degree in maritime law at the Nordic Institute for Maritime Law, the University of Oslo. In 1990 he became Master of Laws (LL.M.) at London School of Economics, London University. He was admitted to the Supreme Court of Denmark in 1996. For several years he has been a lecturer in maritime law at the A.P. Moeller Shipping School and assistant professor in international trade law at the Copenhagen Business School. He is chairman in IBA (Maritime and Transport Law Committee) and is a member of the board of directors of European Maritime Law Association and Bimco Informatique A/S. |
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Mr Prashant Asher Mr. Prashant Asher is a partner of M/s. Crawford Bayley & Co. one of the oldest and leading law firm in Mumbai, India. The firm is a full fledged service firm including extensive practice in the filed of shipping on dry and wet side. Amongst the leading shipping cases attended to by Mr. Asher include the case of “Clemenceau” owned by the French Navy which came for demolition. Mr. Asher represented Eckhardt Marine GmbH, Germany, the cash buyer, in the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India and before the Supreme Court of India Monitoring Committee. Another leading case was of Tsavliris Salvage International Limited for execution of an English Judgment under section 44A of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 which provides for reciprocal arrangement between India and England for execution of judgment of reciprocal territories which went up to the Apex Court of India on a preliminary issue of maintainability of Execution Petition. Mr. Asher was in conduct of the matter on behalf of Tsavliris, it was a first execution application in an admiralty action wherein an English Judgment was enforced against a vessel. |
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Mr Paul Aston Paul acts for clients in the maritime, offshore and commodity sectors. He specialises in all aspects of shipping, transport and insurance, down and midstream oil and gas transactions, ship building and repair disputes, advising shipyards and buyers on contracts for the construction of various offshore structures, (rigs/FPSO) as well as their utilization offshore. His insurance expertise includes acting for brokers and insured in claims arising out of catastrophic risks causing property damage and business interruption (most recently claims arising out of the 2005 Asian Tsunami). He has handled several mediation and arbitration matters in numerous jurisdictions. |
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Mr Martin Brown Martin has wide shipping and offshore finance experience, particularly in the Asian markets. He works with many of the leading international shipping banks, lessors and shipowners and has been involved in a broad range of export credit, lending and leasing transactions, both conventional and Islamic. As well as advising banks and owners on the acquisition, financing and sale of a wide variety of ships, he has also advised on the conversion and financing of offshore units, including FPSOs, MOPUs, drilling rigs and LNG carriers. Prior to joining Ince Martin was at a leading shipping law firm in Singapore. He is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales. |
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Mr Niranjan Chakraborty Niranjan Chakraborty, Indian, B.A., LL.B from Bombay University. Also completed Masters in Maritime law from Bombay University. Admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales. Having postgraduate diploma in Shipping Management from Narottam Morarjee Institute of Shipping, Mumbai. Combined 35 years experience of Sea, Admiralty bar and Corporate. Since 2003, legal consultant to Reliance Industries Limited, Petroleum Business. Handled all aspects of maritime, marine insurance and trade laws including litigation and arbitration. Maritime Arbitrator ICA & HMAA. |
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Mr Andrew Chan Andrew Chan is widely recognised as a leading insolvency practitioner. He is Deputy Head of Corporate Reconstruction and Insolvency at Allen & Gledhill LLP, Deputy Chairman of the Insolvency Practitioners Association of Singapore Ltd, Chairman of the Insolvency Committee of Law Society and a member of the committee set up by the Insolvency & Public Trustee’s Office to enact the proposed omnibus Insolvency Act for Singapore. He has written extensively and is General Editor of “Law & Practice of Corporate Insolvency”. |
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Mr Chan Leng Sun Leng Sun is qualified in Malaysia, Singapore and England. He has been a partner in Ang & Partners since 1995. He had served as a Legal Officer of the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva. Leng Sun is Adjunct Faculty for International Commercial Arbitration at SMU. Leng Sun chairs the Law Society ADR Committee and the SIArb Education Committee. He sits as an arbitrator and adjudicator on the panel of various institutions, such as SIAC, FIDReC, the Income Tax Board of Review and the Maintenance of Parents Tribunal. Leng Sun was a Cambridge Pegasus Scholar, a Kuok Foundation Scholar and an Honorary Shell Scholar. He is Country Commentator for Singapore in Tetley’s Marine Cargo Claims (4th ed.). |
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Mr J. H. Choi J. H. Choi is a founding partner of Choi & Kim, the largest maritime law firm in Korea. He has been actively involved in all aspects of maritime, marine insurance, and international litigation and arbitration practice over 25 years. He has represented most of the major P&I Clubs, foreign and domestic shipping companies and insurance companies, and International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund. Admitted to bar: 1981, Korea; 1991, New York, U.S.A.; Seoul National University (LL.B., 1978; Ph.D., 2001); University of Michigan, Law School, U.S.A. (LL.M., 1990). |
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Mr Philip Clausius Mr Philip Clausius has 18 years of financial and operational experience in the shipping industry. He co-founded First Ship Lease Ltd. in 2002, and oversaw the constitution of First Ship Lease Trust and its successful listing on the Mainboard of SGX-ST in March 2007. He currently sits on the Advisory Panel of the Singapore Maritime Foundation. Mr Clausius holds a “Diplom – Betriebswirt,” the German equivalent of a graduate degree in Business Administration from the European Business School, Germany. |
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Mr Yves De Cocker Yves is specialised in handling marine cargo claims and represents leading cargo underwriters as well as carriers. You can also appeal to him for collisions involving inland barges, casualties with vessels and tugboats. Yves also advises clients in assistance and salvage issues. Yves graduated in 1992 at the Law Faculty of the University of Ghent. Within the scope of the Erasmus project he attended a special “Maritime Law” course at the University of Cardiff (Wales, UK). In 1993 he obtained a postgraduate in Port and Maritime Sciences at the University of Ghent. He was admitted to the Antwerp Bar in 1993. Yves is co-founder of BETTENS DE COCKER VAN HEMELEN. Memberships: IBA, Belgian Maritime Law Association, I.V.R. |
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Dr. Jan Dreyer Dr. Jan Dreyer, born 1960, is deputy managing partner of the marine trade and energy law boutique Dabelstein & Passehl with offices in Hamburg and Leer, Germany. Having been an inhouse lawyer to the shipyard Blohm + Voss and a trained banker he joined Dabelstein & Passehl in 1996 as a partner. Jan Dreyer’s area of work comprise shipbuilding and supply industry, shipfinance, establishing of shipping funds and restructuring of shipping companies as well as insurance law. Jan Dreyer is currently serving as Vice Chair of the IBA Maritime and Transport Committee and is active as an arbitrator in maritime matters. |
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Mr Gan Seng Chee Gan Seng Chee is a litigation partner with Messers. Ang & Partners. His main areas of practice are shipping and marine insurance law. He has extensive experience in dealing with cargo claims, charterparty disputes, collisions, various accidents on board ships, piracies and maritime fraud. He is a Committee Mel mber of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore, and a Committee Member of the Singapore Shipping Association’s Legal Committee. |
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Mr Divay Goel Divay Goel, Director & Head of Asia Operations, Drewry Shipping Consultants - has more than 17 years of hands-on experience in the shipping industry. Whilst at Drewry, Divay has been involved in a number of strategic consulting assignments for the maritime industry players and international financial institutions to whom he has advised the feasibility of investing in shipping assets, shipyards, ports and the offshore sector. Divay has done his MBA in Finance from the Lancaster University Management School, UK and had previously obtained a First Class with Distinction rating in the BSc Nautical Sciences degree at Bombay University. |
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Mr Malcolm Hartwell Malcolm Hartwell is a director in the Shipping Department of Durban office of Deneys Reitz Inc. He is a Master Mariner admitted as an attorney in the High Court of South Africa and is a non practicing solicitor of the Courts of England and Wales. He specialises in all aspects of wet work and has been involved in most of the groundings, collisions and other casualties off the South African and African coast in the last 15 years. In between casualties Malcolm’s practice is dominated by urgent applications for arrest orders for security for proceedings in South Africa and elsewhere and for discovery and access orders. |
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Mr Michael Hajdasinski Michael Hajdasinski is a partner in the Rotterdam based law firm Van Traa Advocaten N.V. He primarily works on transport, insurance law and international trade matters. He was born in Poland, but raised in the Netherlands. He is fluent in Polish and he has good contacts in Eastern Europe. He studied civil and business law and completed the Grotius specialisation course in transport law. |
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Mr Jeremy J.O. Harwood Jeremy Harwood concentrates his practice in litigation and arbitration of international and domestic commercial, insurance and re-insurance disputes, including award enforcement against foreign sovereigns based on alter ego theories. Mr. Harwood also has an extensive appellate practice. He has argued over a dozen successful Circuit Court appeals. He is knowledgeable about the interplay of U.S. bankruptcy law with admiralty issues in maritime bankruptcy cases, representing debtors, creditors and creditors’ committees in maritime and non-maritime cases. |
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Mr Neil Klein Neil was born in South Africa and practiced as a solicitor in Johannesburg before moving to the United States in 1986. He worked in Houston, Texas for a few years before moving to Long Beach, California in 1989 and becoming a California lawyer. He was a founding member of McKasson & Klein LLP in 1998 and his practice focuses on maritime and international contract disputes, Rule B attachments & Rule C arrests, charter party disputes and anti-suit injunctions. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and has published several articles. He has also been an expert witness before the Beijing First Intermediate Court on U.S. choice of law issues and the Supreme Court of the Bahamas on California law issues. |
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Mr Leong Kah Wah Leong Kah Wah is a partner from the Admiralty and Shipping Practice Group, of Messrs Rajah and Tann. Since his call to the bar in March 1991, Kah Wah has acquired extensive experience dealing with casualty work, cargo claims, charterparty and bill of lading disputes. He has acted as lead counsel in numerous cases before the Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal. He is acknowledged as a "casualty, cargo and charterparty expert" for shipping in Chambers Global The World’s Leading Lawyers 2004 to 2009 Editions. He is also recognised as a leading lawyer in the fields of shipping and maritime laws by Asia Law Profiles (2007), Who's Who Legal: Singapore 2008, 2009 and Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2009/2010. |
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Mr Nicholas Lum Associate Clyde & Co, China Nicholas is an Associate in the Firm's Commercial Litigation Group and is resident in Shanghai. He specialises in litigation and arbitration related matters, and his practice includes all areas of litigious shipping and admiralty matters. He also has an arbitration practice in shipping, trade and commodities disputes and has represented and advised clients in arbitrations before the LCIA, CIETAC, HKIAC and the SIAC. Nicholas also speaks regularly at conferences on dispute resolution, arbitration and shipping issues. |
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Mr Stephen Males QC Stephen Males QC - barrister and arbitrator practising international commercial law from 20 Essex Street in London and Maxwell Chambers in Singapore. With 30 years experience of shipping cases, Stephen is a member of the SIAC and SCMA panels of arbitrators and is frequently appointed in ICC, LCIA and LMAA arbitrations. Recent cases as counsel include West Tankers in the House of Lords and European Court; he was a member of the arbitral tribunal in the CMA-CGM v. Hyundai case. |
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Mr Dzung Manh Nguyen Managing Partner Dzungsrt & Associates, Vietnam A managing partner of Dzungsrt & Associates, a boutique shipping & ADR law firm in Vietnam. Mr. Dzung has mainly specialised in all areas of maritime law such as: ship arrest and release, marine casualties, charterparty disputes, marine insurance, oil pollution claims, cargo claims and commercial dispute resolution practice including negotiation, arbitration and litigation in Vietnam. He has assisted major P&I Clubs, Shipowners, Charterers, Cargo Owners and Underwriters as well as international shipping law firms in the settlement of maritime claims in Vietnam since 1994. |
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Mr Charles Reineke Charles Reineke has worked in shipping for most of his career to date. Prior to moving to Singapore in 2007, he was based in Geneva and Paris after having completed a BSc in Maritime Business and Law. He has been involved in a variety of transactions and lease arrangements for diverse sectors of the maritime industry, including the conclusion of large LNG refinancing concluded in 2009. Charles remains focused on developing business in the Asian markets. |
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Mr Nicholas Sansom Mr Nicholas Sansom graduated in law from the London School of Economics and qualified as a barrister-at-law. He has been the Executive Director of SCMA since May 2009. Prior to joining the SCMA, Nick was Head of Marine for Asia at insurance brokers Marsh from 2005. Before joining Marsh, Nick spent most of his career with the Thomas Miller Group providing insurance and risk management services, primarily in respect of marine liability risks. His most recent position for Thomas Miller was as the principal officer of the Singapore branches of the UK P&I Club and TT Club between 1998 to 2005. Apart from speaking and lecturing at many conferences and seminars, Nick has been an active member of various trade associations in the transport sector including being the current chairman of the Legal and Marine Insurance Committee of the Singapore Shipping Association, was on the drafting groups for various BIMCO and FIATA transport documents and is the current president of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore. He is also a director of Charles Taylor Mutual Management (Asia), the managers of The Standard Club in Asia. |
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Ms Corina Song Corina is a partner from the Maritime & Aviation practice group of Allen & Gledhill LLP. She graduated from the University of Hull in 1988 and obtained her LLM from University College London in 1992. She qualified as a solicitor of England & Wales in 1992 and was called to the Singapore Bar in 1993. Corina acts for owners, charterers, freight forwarders, banks, yards, insurers, cargo owners and has extensive experience in all aspects of shipping, admiralty and insurance law. She is also the current vice president of WISTA Singapore. |
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Mr Shardul Thacker Shardul Thacker is a partner of Mulla & Mulla & Craigie & Blunt & Caroe. He has an extensive Maritime law practice, which includes arrest and sale of vessels, ship building and chartering contracts, maritime insurance, ship and project finance. He regularly acts for international lenders having done over 150 ship financing deals over the last 15 years. He is India correspondent to Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and regularly contributes to Butterworths, Kluwer, Martindale Hubbell, IBLJ etc. |
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Ms Kelly Vouvoussiras Kelly is a partner at Thomas Cooper and heads the Finance Group in Athens. She specialises in all types of corporate, finance and maritime transactions. Kelly acts for shipowners, financial institutions and corporates across a range of sectors including shipping (both commercial vessels and luxury yachts) / project / corporate / asset finance. She has significant experience within Greece, UK and the Balkans where she leads the project team both locally and in the wider S.E. European region. Kelly is a regular lecturer on a variety of finance related topics. She is a member of the International Bar Association and WISTA (Womens’ International Shipping and Trade Association). Kelly joined the firm in 2000 following her move from Canada where she practised as an Avocate since 1995. She is a fluent Greek and French speaker. Kelly is a qualified Quebec Avocate, Greek Lawyer and is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. |
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Mr Shuji Yamaguchi Shuji Yamaguchi specializes in maritime, insurance, reinsurance, litigation, and aviation law. He has coauthored Arrest of Ship, Maritime Law Handbook, Japan Civil Law Code Vol. 1, and Guide Book of International Multimodal Transportation, and Shipping in 32 jurisdictions worldwide 2010. Member of Japan Maritime Law Association, Inter Pacific Bar Association (Chair of Maritime Law Committee), Association of Average Adjusters of Japan. |
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Mr. Sherman Yan Partner ONC Lawyers, Hong Kong Sherman Yan is the managing partner as well as the Head of Litigation & Dispute Resolution Department of ONC Lawyers. He graduated with a Master’s Degree in Admiralty Law from the University of Southampton. He was admitted to the Supreme Court of Hong Kong in 1995 and subsequently England & Wales in 2009. Sherman is a member of the Civil Litigation Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong. He is the author of the chapter on ‘Foreign Tort’ in the Tort Law & Practice in Hong Kong’ (Sweet & Maxwell) and a contributor to the admiralty section of the ‘Hong Kong English-Chinese Legal Dictionary” (LexisNexis Butterworths). Sherman advises shipowners, charterers, insurers, cargo owners and bunkers suppliers and handles disputes involving charterparties, bills of lading, marine insurance and international sale & purchase of goods. Sherman is also experienced as an arbitrator in maritime disputes |
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