Jesper Windahl

Jesper Windahl is head of WSCO’s shipping practice group. He is a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Copenhagen (1996). For many years Jesper Windahl has focussed on the shipping, transport and insurance sectors. He conducts court and arbitration proceedings and has right of appearance before the Danish Supreme Court. His work particularly includes C/P- and B/L-disputes, liabilities and claims arising from the collision and grounding of vessels, FD&D-disputes, the arrest of vessels, cargo claims and insolvency-related issues in the shipping and transport industry. He regularly attends seminars and conferences abroad, gives lectures and speeches and writes for legal periodicals. He has published the first Danish legal text book on freightforwarders', hauliers' and stevedores' liability insurace. He has been employed as a part-time teaching assistant and associate professor in property and insolvency law at the University of Copenhagen, the Faculty of Law and has been an associate professor in transport law. · WSCO Advokatpartnerselskab

DenmarkShipping, TransportEnglish, Scandinavian Languages

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Jesper Windahl (Cand.jur./LL.M., University of Copenhagen, 1996) is head of WSCO’s shipping practice group and focuses on shipping, transport and insurance. He conducts court and arbitration proceedings, has right of appearance before the Danish Supreme Court, and has held academic posts in property, insolvency and transport law.

Practice areas

ShippingTransportInsuranceInsolvencyArbitrationAviationLitigation

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Denmark

WSCO Advokatpartnerselskab · Jesper Windahl is head of WSCO’s shipping practice group. He is a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Copenhagen (1996). For many years Jesper Windahl has focussed on the shipping, transport and insurance sectors. He conducts court and arbitration proceedings and has right of appearance before the Danish Supreme Court. His work particularly includes C/P- and B/L-disputes, liabilities and claims arising from the collision and grounding of vessels, FD&D-disputes, the arrest of vessels, cargo claims and insolvency-related issues in the shipping and transport industry. He regularly attends seminars and conferences abroad, gives lectures and speeches and writes for legal periodicals. He has published the first Danish legal text book on freightforwarders', hauliers' and stevedores' liability insurace. He has been employed as a part-time teaching assistant and associate professor in property and insolvency law at the University of Copenhagen, the Faculty of Law and has been an associate professor in transport law.

Denmark

Expertise

Charterparty (C/P) and bill of lading (B/L) disputesCollision and grounding liabilityFD&D (Freight, Demurrage & Defence) disputesVessel arrestsCargo claimsShipping and transport insolvency issuesLiability in CMR-carriage, multimodal transport and aviationHull and transport insurance; freightforwarders', hauliers' and stevedores' liability insuranceDrafting contracts and standard conditions for transport and logistics operatorsCourt and arbitration proceedings; right of appearance before the Danish Supreme Court

Education

Cand.jur. (Master of Laws, LL.M.), University of Copenhagen, 1996

Admissions

Right of appearance before the Danish Supreme Court

Languages

EnglishScandinavian Languages