Boutique legal firm Campbell Johnston Clark (CJC) has poached two HFW lawyers to beef up its Singapore team.
The London-headquartered shipping law firm said William Pyle has joined as a senior associate for Asia-Pacific, bringing with him "a wealth of experience" in advising protection and indemnity clubs, shipowners, managers, charterers, insurers, banks and other clients.
His practice focuses on marine casualties and he has advised on high-profile collisions, groundings and fires at sea, as well as contractual disputes and environmental claims.
Based in Singapore since 2013, he has run international arbitration based in Singapore, Hong Kong and London.
"He has recently advised on numerous bunker quality disputes in Asia, following the introduction of the IMO 2020 low-sulphur regulations," CJC said.
The second recruit, solicitor Andrew Shannon, is a master mariner based in Singapore since 2014.
He specialises in Admiralty law and has been involved in disputes arising from marine casualties including collisions, groundings, cargo claims unsafe port claims, heavy weather damage, total loss, dangerous cargo issues, pollution law violations, crewing issues and salvage.
In 2018, he was named by Singapore Business Review as one of the city-state’s most influential lawyers aged 40 and under.
Shannon spent 16 years at sea with Britain's Royal Navy and Carnival Corp, as well as time ashore as an internal auditor for the US cruiseship company.
"The latest additions consolidate expertise at CJC’s Singapore office across its dry shipping and casualty-handling workload, strengthening its continuing initiative to grow its regional business by investing in Singapore’s legal talent pool," the company said.
London expansion
The appointments follow new additions in the London headquarters in October.
The company said its ship transactions team continued to expand, with Amy Lindemann joining as senior associate solicitor. She was formerly legal counsel at HSBC.
Francesca Norman also joined the team as a newly qualified lawyer with significant asset finance experience from her training contract at K&L Gates.
And Christopher Chane and Samuel Jones signed on as trainee solicitors.
Last week, maritime legal specialist HFW said it was boosting its shipping practice with the promotion of three women in London.
Claire Womersley has been made a partner, with Caroline Murphy and Katherine Noble becoming legal directors.
