Project Description

Dr. Johannes Trost
Lawyer, Partner
+49 40 374778 - 64
Johannes is an internationally recognised legal expert in marine casualties and damage claims in the field of renewable energy. He has extensive experience of ship collisions, cargo accidents, fire on board, shipping accidents and salvage, both at sea and in inland waterways, and when offshore facilities are affected. His particular expertise lies in cases involving complex technical or nautical issues. Johannes frequently advises clients involved in major shipbuilding and chartering projects, in complex multi-jurisdictional damage claims, and acts for clients in litigation before the ordinary courts of law and arbitration tribunals. Johannes acts for German and international shipping companies, their P&I clubs and other insurers, project developers, major industrial companies and shipyards.
Johannes is listed in Who’s Who Legal 2018 as an especially recommended lawyer, “a great lawyer”, and as “a real expert” on shipping law. In the JUVE Handbook of Commercial Law Firms 2017/2018, Johannes is mentioned as being “frequently recommended” in maritime matters. In the Legal 500, 2015, he is mentioned as an “eminent expert on inland waterways shipping law” and in the JUVE Handbook 2014/2015 he is recommended with a client’s accolade “always satisfied”. Corporate International granted Johannes the award “Marine Casualties Lawyer of the Year in Germany 2019” .
In his free time Johannes devotes himself avidly to sailing with his family and to his classic 1938-built motor boat “MARIA av RANÖHAMN”.
- Universities of Bonn and Mannheim - doctoral thesis in 1999
- Admitted to the German bar in 1995
- Joined the firm in 2000
- Comparison of liability regimes in European shipping
- Numerous publications on liability and salvage in blue and brown water shipping and on matters of hull and machinery insurance for inland shipping
- Liability issues regarding off-shore-windfarms
- Nautical Association of Hamburg
- German Maritime Arbitration Association (GMAA)
- Member of the Board for Shipping Law of Association for European Inland Navigation and Waterways (VBW)
- IVR Rotterdam
- wab - Windenergie-Agentur Bremerhaven/Bremen e.V.
- Cluster Renewable Energy Hamburg
Key areas
- Renewable Energies / Offshore
- Commercial Law / International Trade
- Litigation / Dispute Resolution
- Shipping
- Arrest
- Inland Navigation
- Casualty / Salvage
- Deep-Sea Mining
- Scandinavian Desk
- Shipbuilding / Sale & Purchase / Ship Management
- Dry Shipping
- Yachts and Superyachts
- Transport and Logistics
- Insurance / Re-insurance
- Plant Construction (onshore and offshore)