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Charles has a degree in law and modern languages from Queens’ College, Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor in 1974, becoming a partner of Holman Fenwick Willan in 1978. He moved to Paris in 1976 to found HFW’s Paris office, returning to London in 1980. In 1989 he set up the Shipping & International Trade Department at Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills) and in 2003 joined the North of England P&I Club’s FD&D department.
His practice as a maritime lawyer from 1974 until 2010 mainly covered disputes arising out of charterparties, bills of lading, newbuildings, MOAs, and marine insurance claims. He also dealt with international trade arbitrations, involving various commodities including oil trading.
Charles has practised as a maritime and commercial arbitrator since 1998, full-time since 2010. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Panel Member of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, a member of the Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange and member of the Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre. He acts as arbitrator in LCIA arbitrations and has sat overseas as arbitrator in SCMA, GMAA and ICC arbitrations.
Fluent in French, German and Norwegian.
Charles has a degree in law and modern languages from Queens’ College, Cambridge and qualified as a solicitor in 1974, becoming a partner of Holman Fenwick Willan in 1978. He moved to Paris in 1976 to found HFW’s Paris office, returning to London in 1980. In 1989 he set up the Shipping & International Trade Department at Herbert Smith (now Herbert Smith Freehills) and in 2003 joined the North of England P&I Club’s FD&D department.
His practice as a maritime lawyer from 1974 until 2010 mainly covered disputes arising out of charterparties, bills of lading, newbuildings, MOAs, and marine insurance claims. He also dealt with international trade arbitrations, involving various commodities including oil trading.
Charles has practised as a maritime and commercial arbitrator since 1998, full-time since 2010. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, a Panel Member of the Singapore Chamber of Maritime Arbitration, a member of the Baltic Mercantile & Shipping Exchange and member of the Emirates Maritime Arbitration Centre. He acts as arbitrator in LCIA arbitrations and has sat overseas as arbitrator in SCMA, GMAA and ICC arbitrations.
Fluent in French, German and Norwegian.
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