Sally-Ann is a partner in our London office, having trained at the firm, and has been in the shipping industry for over 25 years. Sally-Ann is co-Managing Partner of our Athens office, and splits her time between the London and Athens offices.
She appreciates that those in the industry are facing real time problems that can greatly impact on their business. She has a reputation for being responsive and commercial so as to ensure that clients can deal with any issues quickly and effectively.
Should matters not be capable of resolution, she has in depth experience of an array of options, including mediation, interlocutory applications, and interim awards, as well as full-blown arbitrations (including LMAA and LCIA), and trials.
Sally-Ann is recommended as a lawyer in Legal 500 UK 2019. In the 2017/18 rankings she was described as an ”extremely responsive, diligent, intelligent and practical lawyer”. Her Legal 500 UK 2016 entry simply described her as “fantastic”.
Shipping
Sally-Ann deals with disputes arising out of all types of shipping contracts, such as charterparty, bill of lading, ship management and shipbuilding disputes, as well as sale contracts and worldwide logistics issues. She is able to deal with all types of dispute, from the highly technical shipbuilding disputes and cargo claims (including the carriage of oil and gas products, dry bulk cargoes and containers, as well as pharmaceutical products) to simple defence issues. She is well used to dealing with complex multi-contractual issues.
Sally-Ann works largely with clients based in Europe, (including the UK, Italy and Greece), the U.S., India, China and Saudi Arabia, acting for the full range of shipping players including owners, charterers, traders, ship managers and insurers.
She has considerable experience of drafting standard form amendments to charterparties, COAs, pool agreements, ship management agreements and freight forwarding agreements. The economic downturn also led to her being involved with a number of high profile insolvency issues.
Her experience also includes the exercise of liens and arrests in many jurisdictions, anti-suit injunctions and enforcement.
Sally-Ann has a particular interest in future-proofing the shipping industry and has recently been advising on the impending sulphur limits, cyber issues, GDPR and blockchain. She regularly lectures on bill of lading and charterparty issues, and is responsible for our in-house training in the Shipping Group. She is also editor of the Shipping Group's blog: Ship Law Log.
Aviation
Sally-Ann has advised companies on their airfreight terms and conditions – the standard IATA recommended terms and conditions, and amendments to the same.
She has dealt with airline related disputes, in conjunction with our NY office.
She has also assisted clients who have been raising funds from investors for the acquisition of shares in an aircraft leasing company. In one such case she had to assist when news coverage in the aerospace industry sector seemed to be impacting on the clients’ ability to raise such funds.
Sally-Ann is also familiar with the rules relating to aircraft repossession in England.
