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Richard Neylon

Richard Neylon is Partner at HFW in London. Richard specialises in shipping and crisis response. He acts for a range of shipowners, charterers and insurers, in wet and dry shipping disputes. A large proportion of Richard's work involves resolving disputes arising from marine casualties and he has been involved in many of the recent high profile incidents. He has particular experience of collisions, fires/explosions, salvage, piracy, capture/seizure, groundings and unsafe port claims – often involving complex multi-jurisdictional litigation and arbitration. Whilst he works in the Admiralty & Crisis Management department, the complexity of modern marine casualties necessarily involves him in a mix of wet and dry work.

Explanatory notes

Explanatory notes

Protective Clauses

Saudi Arabia, King Fahd Port - Towage

New Wreck Removal Agreement provides optional risk allocation procedure

The introduction of QRA (Quantitative Risk Analysis) into the contracting process for maritime wreck removal operations has prompted a revision of WRECKSTAGE. QRA is used to assess risk in the operation of an engineering process to inform and guide decisions on the allocation of risk between the contracting parties and the consequent pricing ramifications.

Paul-Haworth

Paul has spent 14 years working in shipping and Admiralty matters. Prior to this Paul was at sea for 16 years with the last 9 years in the offshore sector, including taking command roles in DP classed vessels. Paul qualified as a solicitor in 2009 and advised on LOF and common law salvages around the UK as well as contractual disputes under the various towage contracts such as the UKSCT, TOWCON and TOWHIRE and equally SUPPLYTIME. He has regularly advised on the drafting and implementation of wreck removal contracts, acting for contractors as well as Clubs. He also gives seminars to clients on the various BIMCO and ISU contracts to assist them in choosing the most appropriate contract for their particular circumstances. Paul has recently been elected as the Secretary to the Admiralty Solicitors Group (ASG). The ASG is comprised of established maritime legal firms and was formed in 1972 to promote and preserve standards in the practice of maritime law in England. The ASG meets regularly to discuss recent issues and maritime practice.

Cyrille De Salins

Cyrille De Salins has extensive experience in the shipping and offshore industries. Cyrille was an associate with Ince & Co France for more than 8 years, where he focused on disputes arising from carriage of goods, charterparties, bills of lading, shipbuilding, total loss, collisions, salvage, general average, groundings and limitation of claims. He has particular experience of drafting and negotiating a wide range of contracts in the offshore energy and marine sectors, including BIMCO SUPPLYTIME, WINDTIME, HEAVYLIFTVOY and other standard contracts, as well as bespoke contracts. Cyrille now works as a senior legal counsel at Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S, where he supports the preparation, drafting, negotiations and handling of complex agreements and charterparties to carry, install and service wind turbine components across the globe. He is qualified in France and in England and Wales.

New contract will help speed spill response times

BIMCO and ISCO have launched two new spill response contracts to make the task of arranging clean-up services following a spill incident significantly easier to negotiate in an emergency.