Details
Ester focuses on dispute resolution and regularly advises on and handles disputes arising under a range of shipping contracts, including charterparties, ship management agreements, bills of lading, MOAs, shipbuilding contracts, commission agreements and sale and purchase agreements.
Ester has extensive experience in handling complex multi-jurisdictional litigation and often represents clients before the English High Court as well as at London Maritime Arbitrators Association (LMAA), ICC International Court of Arbitration and London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) arbitrations. Ester also assists clients with resolving disputes commercially and is regularly involved in settlement negotiations and conducting mediations.
On the non contentious side, Ester is often asked to advise on the drafting of charterparty terms including those dealing with vessel’s CII (Carbon Intensity Indicator) and the EU ETS (Emissions Trading Scheme), as well as drafting, reviewing and negotiating MOAs, ship management agreements, shipbuilding contracts and services agreements.
Before joining Hill Dickinson, Ester spent 12 years at a leading international law firm.
Ester obtained her BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) from the University of Cambridge, her GDL from Kaplan Law School and her LPC from BPP in London.
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Experience
- Assisting owners with obtaining an anti-suit injunction from the English Courts restraining the defendant insurers from pursuing a contractual claim brought in Brazil under two bills of lading against a non-party to the bills
- Acting for owners pursuing multi-jurisdictional claims against the yard and the underwriters following the sinking of a vessel
- Assisting ship managers and their insurers with defending a multimillion dispute relating to the condition of the vessel
- Acting for brokers and their insurers defending various claims arising under brokerage and ship management agreements for more than USD 10 million
- Assisting commodity traders with obtaining a worldwide freezing injunction from the English Courts for the sum of USD 37 million on behalf of trader clients against counterparty in respect of a fraud claim
- Assisting clients with pursuing the underlying disputes in a number of jurisdictions
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Affiliations
- Member of Law Society of England and Wales
- Member of WISTA Cyprus
- Member of Cyprus Marine Club
- Member of the Propeller Club Limassol
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Languages
- Greek = Fluent
- French = Conversational
- Mandarin = Conversational
Hill Dickinson LLP operates in Cyprus in association with G Zambartas LLC a Cyprus private company limited by shares with company number H.E.412500 and registered as a lawyers’ limited company with the Cyprus Bar Association with Registration No.854
Ester Toumpouris's Expertise
Dispute resolution
Shipping
