Dr. Si­mo­ne Clau­ßen, LL.M. (Sout­hamp­ton)

La­wy­er and So­li­ci­tor (Eng­land & Wales), Coun­sel

+49 40 374778 - 61

Si­mo­ne ad­vi­ses and re­pres­ents cli­ents across a broad ran­ge of com­mer­cial is­sues wi­th an em­pha­sis on ship­ping li­ti­ga­ti­on. Si­mo­ne has par­ti­cu­lar ex­pe­ri­ence of car­go claims, col­li­si­on claims, li­mi­ta­ti­on funds and ge­ne­ral avera­ge. She al­so fre­quent­ly re­pres­ents cli­ents in co­vera­ge dis­pu­tes un­der H&M po­li­ci­es in­clu­ding yacht hull po­li­ci­es, and acts in in­ter­na­tio­nal sa­le mat­ters. One of Simone’s par­ti­cu­lar are­as of in­te­rest lies in green ship­ping.  Si­mo­ne has a spe­cial ex­per­ti­se in le­gal mat­ters con­cer­ning ship re­cy­cling.

In JUVE Hand­buch Wirt­schafts­kanz­lei­en 2021/2022 Si­mo­ne is lis­ted as a fre­quent­ly re­com­men­ded la­wy­er and  de­scri­bed by a cli­ent as “a high­ly qua­li­fied and ef­fi­ci­ent ma­ri­ti­me la­wy­er”.

  • Uni­ver­si­ty of Trier and Uni­ver­si­ty of Sout­hamp­ton (LL.M. in Ma­ri­ti­me Law)
  • Trai­nee­ship in Mum­bai, In­dia, wi­th a firm spe­cia­li­sed in ma­ri­ti­me law
  • Ad­mit­ted to the Ger­man bar in 2006
  • Joi­n­ed the firm in 2006
  • Lia­bi­li­ty Risks con­cer­ning Mul­ti­mo­dal Con­tracts in In­ter­na­tio­nal Trade (2004)
  • Pu­bli­ca­ti­on in Ham­bur­ger Hand­buch des Ex­port­rechts on Mul­ti­mo­dal Trans­port (2009)
  • Ap­pli­ca­ti­on of the Was­te Mo­ve­ment Re­gu­la­ti­on to Scrap­ping of Ves­sels in Non-OECD-Sta­tes (PhD 2009)
  • Ship Re­cy­cling - the Eu­ro­pean Way (Recht der Trans­port­wirt­schaft 2016, 201)
  • Clo­se Link to En­vi­ron­men­tal Law (HAN­SA In­ter­na­tio­nal Ma­ri­ti­me Jour­nal, Nr. 8, S. 44)
  • En­forcea­bi­li­ty of Ge­ne­ral Avera­ge State­ment is res­to­red (Recht der Trans­port­wirt­schaft 2016, 410)
  • Wo­men’s In­ter­na­tio­nal Ship­ping & Tra­ding As­so­cia­ti­on (Wis­ta)
  • Ger­man As­so­cia­ti­on for In­ter­na­tio­nal Ship­ping Law (DVIS)