Shearn Delamore & Co’s shipping offering has noteworthy expertise handling the gamut of complex matters, from advising on cross-jurisdictional international trade, marine insurance, sale and purchase agreements and shipbuilding matters, to handling the array of related mediation and arbitration cases. Rajasingam Gothandapani heads up the practice and has notable experience advising national and international maritime clients on the range of transactional and contentious matters. The claims the team handles are frequently multi-party, high-stakes, high-profile and of significant value. An example of its workload is its supporting The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in its initiating a lawsuit against the owners of the ‘MT Sea Coral’ regarding the alleged misdelivery of cargo to unauthorised third parties. Nik Azila Shuhada Binti Nik Abdullah, promoted to partnership in January 2023, brings to bear her litigation expertise across the scope of the team’s caseload.
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Key clients
- International Transport Workers’ Federation
- The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited
- of Singapore
- New Orient Marine Pte Ltd
- Cooperative Rabobank U.A. (Singapore Branch)
- Star Cruise HK Limited
- Maersk Malaysia Sdn Bhd
- Messrs. Klein Rechtsanwälte AG, Switzerland
Work highlights
- Advising the International Transport Workers' Federation who sought assistance for the 213 crew members aboard the Panama-flagged vessel Oriental Dragon claiming to have been abandoned by the vessel's owners and not receiving their wages.
- Advising on an alleged misdelivery of a cargo of LSFO to unauthorized third parties who did not present the relevant bills of lading with claims amounting to $34.8m.
- Representing The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited's Singapore branch in the suing of 'Ocean Winner', a boat in the port of Singapore, for the alleged misdelivery of GASOIL 10PPM to unauthorised third parties.
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Rajasingam Gothandapani