Stephenson Harwood offers clients a cross-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional service, working extensively in the shipping, maritime, offshore and insurance sectors. The team is also a key port of call for shipowners, ship managers, charterers, shipyards, insurers, reinsurers, and P&I clubs. Nicolas Demigneux leads the team, and often handles shipping and marine litigation matters. Guérin Loisel specialises in international disputes surrounding maritime, aviation, insurance, and reinsurance issues.
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Key clients
- The Hartford
- Talbot Underwriting
- Hiscox MGA LTD
- Louis Dreyfus Armateurs SAS
- LD Ports & Logistics PTE LTD
- Columbia Shipmanagement
- Maersk Line A/S
- RSA Insurance Group PLC
- RSA Luxembourg
Work highlights
- Advising the insurers of a European leader in naval defense in coverage discussions following a fire that destroyed part of a nuclear attack submarine.
- Advising a company providing integrated subsea services, mainly to the oil, gas, and renewables industries on insurance law and contract issues.
- Representing a commodities trader on a ten-million-euro dispute that opposes them against their cargo insurers, regarding a cargo loaded in Ukraine on board their chartered vessel before the vessel was trapped because of the war.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Nicolas Demigneux