Simon Curtis is a Senior Counsel at Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP. Prior to this he was a Partner at Watson, Farley & Williams between 1986-1996 before becoming a founding Partner of Curtis Davis Garrard LLP in 1996. Simon is one of London’s most experienced maritime lawyers and lectures regularly on a range of shipbuilding and offshore issues, including contracts for the construction and employment of FPSOs and FSOs. He is also an elected Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Ian Gaunt is a Barrister (non-practising) and a Full Member of the London Maritime Arbitrators Association. He has been a full-time Arbitrator since 2008. He was previously a partner of a firm of London solicitors specialising in ship finance and shipbuilding transactions. From 1999 to 2008 he was Senior Vice President-International of Carnival Corporation where he was responsible to the Group CEO for the execution of the group shipbuilding programme. He is a board member of Maritime London, a member of the Baltic Exchange, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a member of the arbitrator panels of several Chinese arbitral institutions. He has been President of the LMAA since 2017.

William Cecil is a Partner and London Head of Dispute Resolution at Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP. He has extensive experience in litigation and arbitration matters for clients in the shipping, offshore oil and gas and energy industries. Alongside his litigation and arbitration practice, he also assists clients in the drafting and negotiation of various forms of offshore contracts.