Clyde & Co

Recent experience

Insurance/reinsurance

• Acting for insurers in a complex international product recall matter
• Acting for Lloyd's Syndicates following claims brought by a French bank in a fraud case
• Defending British reinsurers against brokers' claim for commission
• Auditing of claims portfolios
• Drafting and reviewing insurance policies (political risks, export and credit) and reinsurance agreements
• Advising insurance operators on French regulatory requirements (EC rules of free movement, restrictions on transfer of insurance portfolios, setting of captives, etc.)
• Advising reinsurer on application of a reinsurance agreement

Shipping

• Handling litigation in the Erika Oil spillage
• Handling litigation in the Estonia sinking (872 casualties)
• Acting for Korean yards in dispute against a French ship-owner
• Regular advice to two French Shipyards

International arbitration

• ICC arbitration relating to the lease of three oil-drilling rigs.
• Assisting client in the negotiation of a state contract in a French-speaking African country.
• Acting for a shipyard in a high-profile ICC arbitration relating to possible defects in cargo-containment systems applied on three LNG carriers.
• Acting for a Gas Company in ICC arbitration in relation to the implementation of a contract for maintenance/repairs of an LNG carrier.
• Pre-contentious advice to a Gas Company in relation to potential defects in cargo-containment system of LNG carrier

Energy, Trade and Commodities

• Advising major oil companies on their general terms and conditions
• Advising contractor in a large gas-related project
• Acting for oil trader in a case of wrongful arrest of oil stocks

Publication

• Thesis on "Drilling rigs and insurance" 1987 (« plateformes de forage et assurance », 1987)