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Background

Thor Maalouf

Thor advises on all aspects of commercial shipping and maritime law, in particular charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding contracts, luxury yacht charters, charters for project cargo, and contracts for shipping and freight services, including multi-modal transport and logistics. She also advises in relation to reorganisations of freight services provision, electronic bills of lading, exploration of the sea bed, and oil pollution incidents where the civil liability convention applies. Thor joined the firm as a trainee in August 2007 and qualified into shipping litigation in September 2009. As a member of the Shipping and Transportation Group, her advice helps clients to reach pragmatic and commercial solutions to disputes but she also has in-depth experience of mediation, litigation in the English Courts, and of LMAA and GAFTA arbitration. Thor has a diverse range of clients, including global commodities traders, international mining companies, shipping companies, P&I clubs, investment funds interested in shipping, investment banks with trading arms, shipowners, and luxury yacht brokers and their clients. Working with such diverse clients has given Thor unusually broad experience and expertise within the shipping and logistics industry.

Case study: Stowaways on board - How did they get there?

COSCO chair receives BIMCO President’s award

Captain Xu Lirong, Chairman of COSCO Shipping, received the President’s Award at the BIMCO Conference in Shanghai for his excellent life-long service to the shipping industry. China Merchants Energy Shipping received the award for Best Shipping Company of Greater China Area 2019.

Nicholas Kazaz

Nicholas is a Senior Associate at HFW, where he focuses on international commercial dispute resolution, specialising in offshore oil & gas, energy, and marine. He focuses on disputes arising from installation contracts, charter parties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, rig disputes, towage, collisions, salvage, general average, groundings, total loss, and limitation. Clients he advises include: energy companies, cable owners and operators, contractors, shipowners, charterers, shipyards, ship managers, brokers, and insurers / P&I Clubs. His experience extends to all the major arbitral institutions including LCIA, ICC, SIAC, SCMA, LMAA, ad hoc arbitration, and the English courts. Nicholas has particular experience of drafting and negotiating a range of contracts in the offshore energy and marine sectors, including BIMCO SUPPLYTIME, TOWCON and BARGEHIRE, LOGIC contracts, and other standard contracts, as well as bespoke contracts. Since joining HFW, Nicholas has undertaken secondments in Australia (to HFW's Perth Office with a focus on the Offshore / Oil & Gas / Commodities sectors), to the in-house legal team of a major international tanker owner, to an International Group P&I Club / Insurer, and a leading insurance broker. Nicholas is qualified in England and Wales.

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George Leloudas

Professor George Leloudas is a Professor at the Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law (IISTL) of Swansea University that he joined in 2011. He is a graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He holds LLM degrees from the University of Bristol (England, 2002) and McGill University (Montreal, Canada, 2003). He also completed his PhD degree at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University in 2009 and worked in practice as a solicitor in London prior to joining to the IISTL. George has published extensively in the fields of insurance and carriage of passengers/cargo and his research interests extend to multimodal transport and the regulation of autonomous transport systems. He teaches marine insurance law, carriage of goods by sea, land and air and arbitration law. He has published two monographs, the most recent one with Professor Malcolm Clarke of Cambridge University on cargo Insurance. He is also the General Editor of the preeminent publication, Shawcross and Beaumont on Air Law and his new book on the Montreal Convention 1999 is expected to be published at the end of 2023.