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Linos Choo

Linos is a lawyer specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on shipping, commodities, and international trade finance. Throughout his career, Linos has concluded many successful arbitrations through the ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, LMAA, SIAC, SCMA and CIETAC. He also regularly acts for clients in disputes in the High Court of Justice in London. Linos has extensive expertise of complex charterparty, bills of lading, ship sale and purchase, shipbuilding, ship finance, marine insurance and maritime cross-border insolvency litigation and arbitration. He is also an experienced commodities lawyer, regularly acting for some of the largest commodities trading houses in the world in GAFTA, FOSFA, LME and RSA arbitrations. In relation to international trade, Linos frequently advises banks on complex issues concerning payment obligations and bank-to-bank reimbursements under letters of credit, demand guarantees, performance bonds, and standby credits. · Keystone Law

EnglandLitigation, International Arbitration

About

Linos is a lawyer at Keystone Law in England specialising in commercial litigation and arbitration with particular emphasis on shipping, commodities and international trade finance. He has acted in arbitrations under ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, LMAA, SIAC, SCMA and CIETAC, appears in disputes in the High Court of Justice in London, and has experience across charterparty and bills of lading, ship sale and purchase, shipbuilding, ship finance, marine insurance, maritime cross-border insolvency, GAFTA/FOSFA/LME/RSA commodities arbitrations, and bank-related trade finance disputes (letters of credit, demand guarantees, performance bonds and standby credits).

Practice areas

LitigationInternational ArbitrationShipping & MaritimeCommoditiesInternational TradeBanking & FinanceInsolvency & Restructuring

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Expertise

Charterparty and bills of lading disputesShip sale and purchase; shipbuildingShip financeMarine insuranceMaritime cross-border insolvencyGAFTA, FOSFA, LME and RSA arbitrationsLetters of credit, demand guarantees, performance bonds and standby creditsArbitration under ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, LMAA, SIAC, SCMA and CIETAC; High Court (London) litigation