Clyde & Co

Recent experience

• Involved in dispute resolution, litigation and arbitration worldwide in many areas of what might be considered as Clyde & Co's "traditional" marine, insurance and aviation practice. His principal clients are insurers, recovery agents, P&I Clubs, shipowners, charterers, freight forwarders and commodities traders although in Dubai, his practice has also broadened and he is handling a wide range of commercial litigation and arbitration matters for a diverse client base including non-marine insurance claims, shareholders and partnership disputes, telecoms disputes, franchising disputes, employee fraud and commercial debt recovery and insolvency
• Numerous court actions, arbitrations and negotiated settlements on matters involving cargo loss/damage, freight and demurrage disputes, unsafe berth claims and ship sale & purchase and construction & conversion disputes, trading disputes, insurance claims (including the largest ever non-petroleum products related fire claim in the Middle East), letter of credit disputes, salvage, collision, allision and General Average
• Acting as mediator of a shipping dispute in what is believed to have been the first mediation of its kind in the UAE
• In the United Arab Emirates has handled cases for clients in all levels of court (First Instance, Appeal and Cassation) and has continued to run from Dubai international arbitrations including LMAA, ICC, UNCITRAL and FOSFA arbitrations