Graham Barnes
Graham Barnes is the founding Director of BankServe Insurance Services Ltd, Lloyds brokers, providing confidential insurance broking, claims recovery and insurance consultancy services to banks and financial institutions in respect of their ship, rig and aircraft financing operations. BankServe now acts for the majority of all shipping banks. Previously founder, Chairman and Managing Director of BankAssure Insurance Services Ltd when it operated as an autonomous company within Aon. Prior to that he was one of the founders and Managing Director of Bankscope Insurance Services Ltd which was eventually absorbed into BankAssure. Graham had the leading role in providing Certificates of Financial Responsibility under the US Oil Pollution Act 1990 and views the latest Athens Protocol 2002 as an even larger challenge for the International Group of Protection & Indemnity clubs.
Alan Brauner
Alan Brauner was formally Head of Shipping for Midland Bank in London, which was merged into HSBC in the early 1990's. He retired from HSBC in early 1994 but has remained working within the shipping industry in one form or another. A career banker for 39 years he joined Chase Manhattan Bank, London in 1955 where he established the European Shipping Division twelve years later. He left Chase in 1981 to join Midland Bank. Following retirement Alan became a consultant to Sinclair Roche & Temperley, which merged with Stephenson Harwood in May 2002. In December 1993 he was appointed a Non-Executive Director of F T Everard & Sons Ltd, a long established UK shipping company operating 35 vessels in the dry and wet coastal trades.
David Brookes
David Brookes is a senior assistant solicitor in the Banking and Asset Finance Department of Stephenson Harwood. He specialises in all forms of non-contentious shipping and has extensive experience in sale and purchase work and debt finance and leasing matters. He has previously spent three years in the Firm's Piraeus office. He is fluent in Norwegian.
Arlene Dourish
Arlene Dourish joined Stephenson Harwood from Sinclair Roche and Temperley in 1995 and became a partner in 2000. She acts for banks, lending institutions and shipowners in a wide variety of ship finance transactions including structured finance and leasing. She has specialised more recently in projects involving Islamic finance, through the second Shari'a compliant shipping fund set up in 2004.
Lucy French
Lucy French graduated in law from St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1994, joined Stephenson Harwood the following year and was admitted as a solicitor in 1997. On qualification, she joined Stephenson Harwood's shipping department and has specialised since then in all aspects of ship finance work, including sale, purchase and registration of second hand vessels and the financing of both newbuildings and second hand vessels. She acts for both lenders and borrowers. Lucy became a partner in Stephenson Harwood's Banking and Asset Finance Department in 2005.
Douglas Garnsey
Douglas Garnsey joined the Corporate Risk Solutions Shipping team within the Markets Division of The Royal Bank of Scotland plc in July 2001. He works within a team dedicated to providing risk management solutions to the bank's global shipping client base. He specifically advises the bank's shipping clients based in Greece and Asia with regards to interest rate risk management.
Peter Illingworth
Peter Illingworth is General Manager and Head of Shipping in DVB Bank AG's London Branch. He joined DVB Bank in 1998. He started his career with ANZ Investment Bank in 1986 before moving to Kleinwort Benson and then Long Term Credit Bank of Japan (LTCB), where he was Head of Shipping Finance. He joined DVB following its acquisition of the LTCB Transportation business. After DVB's acquisition of Nedship Bank NV in 2000, he acted as Deputy Managing Director and Head of Risk Management at DVB Bank NV in Rotterdam for 2 years. Since 2002 he has been General Manager and Head of Shipping Finance in DVB's London Branch. He has 20 years of experience in banking, in 16 of which he has specialised in shipping finance. He holds a Master's degree from Pembroke College, Cambridge University.
Dora Kokota
Dora Kokota is of Greek origin. She studied for her LLB at the University of Sheffield and has an LLM from Cambridge University where she specialised in finance law. She joined Stephenson Harwood in 2004 as a trainee solicitor. In September 2006 she will qualify into the Banking and Asset Finance Department, where she will specialise in shipping finance.
Ian Mace
Ian Mace is an assistant solicitor in the Banking and Asset Finance Department of Stephenson Harwood. He graduated in law with European law from The University of Hull in 1999 and subsequently completed the Legal Practice Course at Nottingham Law School. He trained with Stephenson Harwood and qualified into their Banking and Asset Finance Department in 2004. He specialises in all aspects of ship finance.
Sheila Obhrai
Sheila Obhrai has specialised in Ship Finance since qualification and is a Senior Associate at Stephenson Harwood. She advises international banks and financial institutions on all aspects of bilateral and syndicated lending and in particular has advised a number of international banks on high profile complex syndicated transactions. Sheila has extensive experience in relation to all types of financing arrangements for new buildings and second hand vessels as well as vessel related project financings. Sheila acts for banks as well as shipowners including first class banks and owners in the Middle East.
Struan Robertson
Struan Robertson has practised in the maritime field for more than thirty years. He is Deputy Chairman of the International Maritime Industries Forum, a member of the Steering Committee of the London Shipping Law Centre and past chairman of the City of London Law Society Sub-Committee on Shipping and Aerospace law. He specialises in sale and purchase, shipbuilding, finance and cross-border leasing and has a particular interest in the C.I.S. and in the Gulf States due largely to an involvement with the tanker industry as a result of some years spent with a leading tanker owner in the Far East.
Mark Russell
Mark Russell is the head of Stephenson Harwood's Banking and Asset Finance Practice Group. He acts for a range of banks and other lending institutions, as well as shipowners and North Sea operators, in a wide variety of ship finance, leasing and sale and purchase matters, and in connection with oil and gas exploration and project financing.
Jonathan Ward
Jonathan Ward is a partner in the Banking and Asset Finance Department of Stephenson Harwood. He specialises in all aspects of ship finance including ship registration, sale and purchase, shipbuilding, structured ship finance and leasing matters, domestic and cross border. Jonathan represents ship finance institutions, lessors, shipowners, shipyards and contractors world-wide. Jonathan is a regular speaker at finance and shipping seminars and has lectured in the UK and abroad.
Gary J Wolfe
Gary J Wolfe is a partner of New York City law firm Seward & Kissel LLP, where he heads that firm's capital markets group. He represents domestic and international clients mainly in securities, corporate and maritime matters. Mr Wolfe graduated from Cornell University and Yale Law School, where he was a founding editor of the Yale Journal of World Public Order. Mr Wolfe has served as President of the US Business Council for South Eastern Europe, Chairman of the Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee of the New York County Lawyers Association and a member of the Admiralty and Maritime Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
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