Engelskrettslig Team

Wikborg Rein has been active in the international market for more than 50 years. The firm has offered English law expertise for several years but we were delighted to announce in January 2010 a step-change in the provision of English law expertise through the recruitment of three new partners in London and the development of the London office at the core of the firm’s expanding English law practice.

Simon Tatham, Clare Calnan and Rob Jardine-Brown, recognised as solicitors who are leaders in their fields, bring enormous depth and experience to the clients of the firm. Integrating their knowledge and skills and working with the growing English law team members in Oslo and Singapore enables the firm to provide a truly global and heavyweight service. In particular, London, is now able to provide a litigation and dispute resolution service to meet growing demand from our clients.

The development and expansion in London - and further recruitment in Oslo - complements the English law office established in Singapore in 2003 by Stephen Fordham and the creation there of a distinguished asset finance team working in each case alongside their Norwegian colleagues.

Wikborg Rein is the only Norway-based international law firm able to offer to its shipping and offshore market clients a full range of English law services. These are distinguished by:

• English law expertise
• International experience
• Local knowledge
• English law with a pragmatic “Norwegian flavour” to our approach
• A “one-stop-shop” from transaction work to litigation
  
  Wikborg Rein’s fast-growing team in London handles a variety of English law matters, which reflects the team’s expertise in the following areas:
  
  Contentious:
• Dispute Resolution Services including mediation (CEDR, ADR), arbitration in London and Singapore (LMAA, LCIA, ICC, Gafta and FOFSA trade arbitrations) and English High Court and Appeal Court with particular expertise in the Admiralty and Commercial Court
• Offshore contracts for the construction and operation of offshore units including FPSO, FSO FRSU, drilling rigs, production platforms and offshore supply vessels
• Maritime Emergency Response
• Casualty management including collisions, salvage and towage, total losses, wreck removal operations, groundings, fires, pollution, significant cargo damage, limitation of liability, marine inquiries, forum selection, official investigations and seafarer prosecutions
• Charterparties and bills of lading
• Marine insurance, including Builders Risks, Hull & Machinery, P&I, Charterers Liability, Port Risks, Lay-up and Loss of Hire insurance
• Towage and heavy lift contracts
• Damage to fixed and floating objects
• Trading and transportation of wet and dry commodities including oil and LNG
  
  Non-contentious:
• Marine operations including port and terminal use agreements, wreck-removal, towage and heavy lift contracts
• Shipbuilding and offshore construction and conversions
• Sale and purchase of ships
• Employment of ships under contracts of affreightment, bareboat charters, long- term and spot charters
• Marine agency and support agreements
• Banking and Finance
• Corporate and commercial work
• Contract negotiation and interpretation