Watson Farley & Williams (“WFW”) is pleased to announce that maritime disputes expert Andrew Rigden Green has joined the firm as a partner in Hong Kong. He was previously at Stephenson Harwood in the same city.
Andrew has over 20 years’ disputes experience having begun his career focussing on arbitration and London High Court litigation. In 2012, he relocated to Hong Kong to grow Stephenson Harwood’s maritime disputes practice and establish its international arbitration practice.
With expertise spanning corporate and commercial disputes, international arbitration and shipping, Andrew’s practice includes shareholder, corporate, trust and private wealth, joint venture, trade and asset finance and sale and purchase disputes across several industries including aviation, LNG, oil and gas and commodity trading.
His clients 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, European and US companies operating in Asia and environmental NGOs.
WFW Global Maritime Sector Head George Macheras commented: “I am delighted to welcome Andrew to the firm. His long-standing reputation for excellence in the region strengthens our global network of disputes partners, especially following our other key hires in this space recently”.
Andrew added: “I am thrilled to join WFW whose reputation in the maritime sector is unrivalled globally. This is a terrific opportunity to enhance the services I can provide to my clients. I look forward to representing some of the most respected names in the shipping industry and growing WFW’s disputes practice”.
