Alex is a Senior Associate in the Dispute Resolution group, specialising in Maritime disputes.

Alex has extensive experience of a wide range of contentious maritime disputes including shipbuilding, charterparty and bill of lading disputes, finance enforcement, bunker issues, offshore issues, commodities matters and, more recently, decarbonisation issues such as CII, EEXI and EU ETS. Informed by this experience, he also assists clients with non-contentious and drafting matters.

Alex qualified and subsequently worked for several years at a leading international firm, with secondments at a ship owner, an International Group P&I Club and a leading offshore contractor. He subsequently worked at a second International Group P&I Club and during his time at WFW has been seconded for several months to an FD&D Club, assisting with charterparty and other maritime disputes.

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  • Advising on a high-value cargo claim involving alleged seawater contamination of a chemical cargo which was subsequently used in a chemical plant.
  • Advising on a very high value dispute between an FPSO owner and shipyard, involving almost all parts of the unit’s process train.
  • Assisting a major international bank to track, arrest and sell multiple vessels for large unpaid sums under the relevant finance agreements.
  • Assisting owners when their vessel was detained for drugs found in the cargo – successfully recovering hire from Charterers.
  • Assisting owners with various complex and technical bunker contamination disputes for Owners.
  • Advising owners with a complex and high-value offhire/damages claim arising from issues with loading dunnage and the subsequent arrest of the vessel.
  • Advising a financier with bespoke solutions to obtain recovery of various vessels from a delinquent borrower, complicated by issues such as cargo onboard, difficult jurisdictions and sanctions issues.
  • Assisting owners with a complex and high-value dispute involving the arrest of a vessel in West Africa on spurious grounds and obtaining recompense from charterers by way of arresting other vessels.
  • Advising cargo interests in respect of a General Average/Salvage dispute involving the eventual total loss of the vessel.

Education

  1. 2007 – 2009 · LLB (GDL and LPC), College of Law
  2. 2004 – 2007 · BA Hons (History), University of Manchester