Andrew is a Partner in the Maritime and Dispute Resolution groups.

Andrew’s experience spans corporate and commercial disputes, international arbitration, shipping and offshore construction. His practice includes FD&D, P&I, shareholder, corporate, trust and private wealth, joint venture and sale and purchase disputes across several industries including maritime, aviation, oil and gas and LNG. He is also experienced with energy transition matters and in particular maritime decarbonisation.

His clients primarily include most of the IG P&I Clubs, shipowners, Chinese SOEs, Japanese trading houses and corporates in the oil and gas sector, Hong Kong and Singapore-based UHNWIs, Chinese, Taiwanese and Hong Kong privately owned companies as well as European and US companies operating in Asia. Andrew also works with environment focussed NGOs and governmental bodies on projects to decarbonise the maritime industry.

 

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  • Acting for syndicated lenders in the enforcement of secured finance facilities following he collapse of a major Korean shipping group. This involved the repossession, arrest and sale of 35 vessels in jurisdictions around the world.
  • Acting for a major French bank enforcing security arrangements under a trade finance facility following the collapse of an Asian commodity trader due to fraudulent trading and borrowing activities. This matter included conducting a series of 90 separate but related ad hoc arbitrations.
  • Acting for an Asian shipowner and their insurers in a multiparty institutional arbitration in respect of the construction of an LNG carrier.
  • Advising shipowners and bunker suppliers in relation to EU ETS and FuelEU Maritime and other decarbonisation efforts including ship design, shipbuilding for alternative fuels, mobile offshore renewable units and contracting for decarbonisation.
  • Acting for private clients in respect of disputes arising from a failed real estate investment scheme in South East Asia, shareholders disputes and unwinding complex offshore structures with proceedings in various jurisdictions.
  • Acted for successful shipowners in the leading case in Hong Kong on freezing injunctions and jurisdiction disputes between mainland China, Hong Kong and England (Compania Sud Americana de Vapores S.A. v Hin-Pro International Logistics Limited (FACV 1/2016)).
  • Acted for successful shipowners in one of the leading cases on incorporation of arbitration clauses under Hong Kong law (OCBC Wing Hang Bank Ltd v Kai Sen Shipping Co Ltd [2020] HKCFI 375).

Education

  1. 1998 University of St Andrews & Sorbonne, Paris – MA (Hons) French and Russian
  2. 2000 College of Law, York – PGDL and LPC
  3. 2002 Paris Chamber of Commerce – Diploma in judicial French and TEF

memberships and associations

  1. Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators
  2. Fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Arbitrators
  3. Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators
  4. Supporting member of the LMAA
  5. Executive Committee of the Hong Kong Maritime Law Association
  6. International Working Group of the Comité Maritime Internationale on Maritime Decarbonisation
  7. Working Group of the Hong Kong Green Finance Association on establishing a green bunkering hub in Hong Kong
  8. Shipping and Transport committee member of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce China and GBA committee member of the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong