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Join us for an insightful seminar on "BIMCO Carbon Clauses, EU maritime fuel regulation, and the updated SHIPMAN contract" at the South China International Arbitration Centre in Hong Kong.
Douglas Shoemaker is a Partner of BLANKROME Houston, and member of the Maritime Emergency Response Team (“MERT”). Douglas focuses his practice on complex maritime transactions and litigation. He has over 25 years’ experience advising clients on a wide range maritime law topics, including charter party negotiation and drafting, arbitration, vessel construction and flagging, purchase and sale, and mergers and acquisitions, personal injury, property damage, pollution, onboard investigations, navigational error, Jones Act, stevedoring accidents, cargo damage defense, and general average. He has particular experience in: • Negotiating and drafting complex maritime agreements, including vessel construction, purchase and sale; time, voyage and bareboat charter parties; towage; contracts of affreightment; bills of lading; master services agreements; general terms and conditions; indemnity and insurance provisions • Defending maritime personal injury and property damage cases in state and federal courts • Arbitrations before the Society of Maritime Arbitrators in New York, the London Maritime Arbitrators Association, the Houston Maritime Arbitrators Association, the American Arbitrators Association, and JAMS • Defending and prosecuting maritime seizure proceedings • Insurance defense and coverage • Domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, particularly concerning maritime assets and issues.
Cristan Evans is a partner at Stephenson Harwood LLP and specialises in the resolution of shipping and trade disputes. He provides practical, commercial advice with the aim of resolving the most complex disputes in an efficient and cost-effective manner. Cristan acts for shipowners, charterers, cargo interests and their insurers in disputes arising under charterparties, bills of lading and contracts of affreightment. He has acted in Court proceedings and in arbitrations conducted under the LMAA, UNCITRAL, LCIA, FOSFA and GAFTA rules. An experienced commodities lawyer, Cristan also acts in sale contract disputes for buyers and sellers involving commodities such as petroleum products, coal, vegetable oils/oil seeds and biofuels.
