Ian MacLean Master Mariner LLM MBA AFNI

Accredited mediator | Marine, ISM, casualty & due diligence consulting expert - master mariner | Former trade association and IMO delegate, ship manager and trade association/ship owning SPV's director | Non-practising solicitor - England & Wales

Ian leads Hill Dickinson's marine casualty offering in the APAC region. With 45 years international maritime experience, as a master mariner & commercial/admiralty lawyer with a seagoing, ship owning, commercial/technical management background, coupled with IMO and trade association experience, he advises and represents his client base of ship owners, managers, charterers, slot charterers and insurers in respect of casualties (vessel, offshore and port infrastructure); cargo/machinery loss and damage; pollution; salvage (including wreck removal) and the claims in contract and tort that flow from such casualties. Oversaw local office compliance and regulatory issues and represented the international offices on the group's regulatory and compliance committee. Acted as "first stop" for fee earner professional conduct enquiries out of UK office hours. > Attending, managing, investigating & advising on marine casualties worldwide, (actual/constructive total losses, collisions, fire, pollution, structural damage, groundings, unsafe ports, cargo loss, general average, salvage and piracy) in respect of claims, defences, liability, jurisdiction, security, arrest, limitation of liability, mitigation & quantum. > Cradle to grave case management in Admiralty & Commercial Court, arbitration tribunals & mediation. > Advising on STCW & MARPOL issues, piracy, international conventions, dangerous goods, class & underwriter requirements, disputes arising from OCIMF/SIRE & CDI vetting and ship management contractual disputes.

Indicative list of matters while a partner at Hill Dickinson: * Vessel owners and charterers in respect of security, jurisdiction and limitation * Vessel owners in two, three and multiple vessel collisions * Vessel owners and salvors in salvage and wreck removal matters including USD95m Wreckstage * Vessel owners in Euro 100m business interruption claim following vessel damage to shore infrastructure * Vessel owner issued with counterfeit switch B/Ls as part of a US$983m fraud against 20 lenders. * Vessel owner in respect of US$25m collision and pollution in Houston Ship Channel. * Vessel owner in US$100m+ matter against slot charterer and cargo claims following vessel fire * Vessel owners investigating crew sabotage of vessel and onboard crime including attempted homicide * Slot charterer in case involving loss of 1,000+ containers from vessel. * Slot charterers in engine fire, cargo fire, bunker damaged engine and grounding cases. * Tanker owners including pollution incident during cargo transfer, contamination & coating issues . * Fatalities at sea and missing crew at sea. * Vessel owner in severe structural failure. * Owners and charterers in respect of Vessel Sharing Agreements and Cross Slot Charters. * Seaworthiness and general average disputes * Bunker disputes for vessel owners and charterers * Vessel owners and managers in SHIPMAN and CREWMAN disputes * Vessel owners - Somali piracy, including post release vessel attendance with Interpol/NCIS/USCG

Lloyd's Salvage Group acts as the custodian of Lloyd's Open Form, the most commonly utilized salvage agreement in the world. The Group, chaired by the Lloyd's Form Appeal Arbitrator, and run by the Salvage Arbitration Branch of Lloyd's of London, brings together property insurers, liability insurers, vessel owners, the Admiralty Solicitor's Group, the Loyd's Form Arbitrators, the International Salvage Union and other interested parties. Ian represented the interests and views of the independent tanker owning sector in respect of salvage issues, SCOPIC and the drafting of the Lloyd's Standard Form of Salvage Agreement (LOF 2020).

As a board member, provided pro bono legal advice including anti competition law, EU law, piracy, employment law, MLC, GDPR and in respect of the Association's activities generally. Acted as chair in absence President.

Focus on Somali piracy, developing, evolving and sharing best management practice as consequence of undertaking released crew de-briefings and attending physical vessel inspections post-release. As solicitor - facilitating, supporting and attending investigations/crew interviews with Interpol/NCIS/USCG on post hijack-released client vessels in Oman with a view to defending against seaworthiness based contractual and tort claims faced by the carrier/owner, including those in General Average.

(Trainee 2001 - 2002)

The committee was responsible for drafting and updating the pre-ISM Code quality assurance model that all member companies were required to demonstrate by passing an IACS external audit.

Post graduate research into bench-marking, transactional and operational risk in ship management, sponsored by Nautical Institute/Mobil; (Electives - Advanced Management Accounting, Management of Change, Total Quality Management & Statistical Process Control).

Graduated with distinction. Award for top masters' student in university.

Graduated with distinction. Admitted as Solicitor 2002

Graduated with distinction.