Wikborg Rein — Singapore

Arun Ravindran

Arun is part of our transactional practice in Singapore. He has extensive experience across the LNG market for multiple long-term SPAs (advising both buyers and sellers) and short-term MSPAs across Asia and Europe. · Shipping

Claire Jiang

Claire has extensive experience advising shipowners, P&I Clubs and H&M insurers on post-casualty matters, including collisions, fires and explosions, salvage, limitation of liability, pollution incidents and other major casualties. Claire regularly assists with investigations, strategic post-casualty analysis, liability assessment, negotiations with authorities and claimants, and the coordination and conduct of related litigation and arbitration. Her clients include members of the International Group of P&I Clubs, leading H&M insurers and international shipowners. In parallel, Claire advises on shipbuilding, conversion and offshore construction projects, acting for major Chinese state-owned shipyard groups and offshore contractors, as well as international owners, manufacturers and suppliers. Her work includes drafting and negotiating shipbuilding and conversion contracts, refund guarantees, offshore EPC arrangements, charterparties, transportation and international trade contracts, as well as associated corporate and financing documentation. Her clients include, among others, CSSC Group, China Merchants Industry Holdings, COSCO Shipyards, and other leading industry participants. Claire also has substantial experience in international dispute resolution, acting in arbitrations under the LMAA, LCIA, HKIAC and SIAC Rules, as well as in litigation before the English and Hong Kong courts and PRC maritime courts. She frequently handles disputes arising out of casualties, shipbuilding and offshore projects, charterparties, and international trade. Claire is dual qualified under Chinese and English law and practises as a Solicitor of England and Wales. · Shipping / Maritime

Ina Lutchmiah

Ina is the Managing Director of Wikborg Rein's Singapore office and leads the transactional practice. She has particular expertise in LNG projects and other shipping and offshore energy transactions. Her experience includes advising on decommissioning and recycling of offshore assets and vessels in accordance with the Basel Convention regime, long-term charters for FSRU and FLNG projects, sale and purchase agreements, sale and leaseback arrangements, joint ventures and corporate structures, shareholder agreements and related documents, business acquisition due diligence, JV partner due diligence, time charters and related service agreements, shipbuilding contracts, EPC contracts, drilling contracts and towage contracts. Ina is English qualified and speaks fluent English, Bulgarian and Greek. · Shipping

Matthew Alker

Matthew has experience in all aspects of dispute resolution in the shipping and offshore industries and handles both "wet" and "dry" shipping disputes. He has acted for clients in English Admiralty Court and Commercial Court proceedings, LMAA arbitrations, Mediations and Early Neutral Evaluation. Matthew has spent time on secondment to a leading member of the International Group of P&I Clubs, and a leading Singaporean based shipping company. Matthew is a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. · Shipping

Pernille Kuld Eriksen

Pernille advises clients across the shipping, marine and commodities sectors, with a practice focused on international disputes. She regularly acts for and represents shipowners, charterers, traders and P&I Clubs in proceedings before the English High Court and in international arbitration under a variety of institutional rules. Her experience covers a broad range of disputes arising out of charterparties, bills of lading, sale of goods contracts and other commercial agreements. Pernille is frequently involved in matters involving redelivery disputes, underperformance, crane breakdowns, laytime and demurrage, off hire issues and cargo damage claims. She also assists clients in responding to major marine casualties, including vessel fires, container loss and salvage. Her background includes time spent working in-house with a Danish shipowner and operator, an experience that provides her with valuable commercial insight and a pragmatic, solutions driven approach to dispute resolution. · Shipping & Maritime

Robert Joiner

Robert is an English qualified solicitor. He deals with dry shipping disputes, mainly concerning charterparties, COA's, bills of lading, project cargo/heavy lifts, MOA's, and commission agreements. He also advises on shipbuilding and rig contracts/guarantees, salvage, wreck removal, unsafe berths, groundings, fires, collisions, and offshore supply disputes. Robert has worked on a range of insurance matters, including marine and cargo where he advises on coverage and recovery. Additionally, he has expertise in commodities, including minerals, frozen produce, LPG and veg oils. He also has extensive experience in arbitration and litigation, and has run a large number of international arbitrations in London, Singapore and Hong Kong while based in Singapore. These range from small claims procedures to multi-million dollar disputes. Robert also has experience with drafting contracts, guarantees and insurance policies, as well as with insurance regulation, compliance and start-up issues for company, mutual and captive insurers, including marine, P&I, and property catastrophe. He is recommended by Chambers & Partners for his "considered and comprehensive" style of practice, and Legal 500 for his "prompt, detailed advice". · Maritime & Offshore

Wole Olufunwa

Wole is an England & Wales qualified international arbitration lawyer. He predominantly specialises in the Maritime and Offshore, International Trade and Energy sectors. Wole has solid experience of handling institutionally administered arbitrations under the SIAC, ICC, LCIA, SCMA and ad hoc arbitrations including those conducted under the auspices of the LMAA Terms. He has acted as arbitrator in several disputes administered by institutional arbitral bodies and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Wole has been based and practising in Singapore since 2010 and acts for a range of clients including Ship-Owners, Charterers, Commodity Traders, Shipyards, EPC Contractors, Miners and Insurers. His clients are located across a broad geography including Singapore, Indonesia, HK, Japan, India, China, Malaysia, Nigeria, Kenya and Europe. As for career highlights, Wole has enjoyed secondment spells with Shell, London (2006), Shipowners' P&I, Singapore (2011) and Rio Tinto, Singapore (2018) and had conduct of contract and pricing review arbitrations worth over USD350m as well as other general commercial disputes in the crypto-currency space. Wole also had conduct of the well-known and reported House of Lords (as it then was) shipping case, The Achilleas [2008] UKHL 48 and is specifically highlighted for his shipping expertise in Chambers Asia-Pacific as a "Notable practitioner and key contact for clients". Wole is also the founder and President of the SALI Club (Singapore Africa Law & Investment Club): www.saliclub.com.sg · International Arbitration