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.
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 and trials.
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, drybulk 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, Korea and China, 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 and preparing for the new EU Data Protection Regulation. 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.
Sally Ann is recommended as a lawyer in Legal 500 UK 2017, being described as an ”extremely responsive, diligent, intelligent and practical lawyer”. Her Legal 500 UK 2016 entry simply described her as “fantastic”.
