Fazlina is a Partner in the firm’s Shipping practice.
Prior to her sojourn, Fazlina trained and practiced at Oon & Bazul. There she received training from a Mariner Lawyer in casualty crisis management and wet shipping. She also regularly worked with trained marine professionals, including Marine Engineers and surveyors, in collating evidence and building case theories from ground up. In this time, she worked on various wet and dry shipping cases including allisions and collisions, fires on board, cargo damage and shortage, bunker contamination and engine damage and bread-and-butter bills of lading cases. Thereafter she practiced in an English law firm where her work included shipbuilding disputes, GAFTA arbitrations and oil and gas contract review / disputes amongst others.
Fazlina brings with her a full-suite of experience from the maritime ecosystem. Following her time in practice, Fazlina joined an IGPANDI Club in a role straddling both P&I claims and LCC matters. In this role, she became familiar with handling incidents and claims, whilst taking heed of members’ and brokers’ needs. In this role, she also became familiar with the interpretation and application of club rules. She later took on a role in-house at a publicly-listed Scandinavian asset-light operator which allowed her to be intimately familiar with the company’s operational, commercial and regulatory needs which included real-time and new-age issues such as sanctions (US, UK, EU and other sanctions) and the regulation of carbon emissions in the maritime industry.
Charitable Appointments
- Member, National University Health System MediFund Committee
- Member, M3 at Chua Chu Kang
- Advising a major insurance company in relation to ad-hoc arbitration proceedings in a matter involving an insurance claim arising from a large-scale tank farm explosion. This matter involved a forensic examination of the documents detailing the construction of the tank farm.
- Advising a local subsidiary of an oil major on the recovery of monies under a contract of carriage following the theft of their oil cargo on board owners’ vessel following a piracy / hijacking incident. This matter was heard before the High Court of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and also involved resisting a claim to limit liability.
- Acting for and advising Greek shipowners on a claim for loss and / or damage arising out of an allision involving multiple parties, including the Bangladesh Navy. This matter involved arresting the vessel involved to obtain security.
- Advising a Malaysian independent power producer in relation to Gas Supply Agreements under the Third Party Access Initiative and RMK-10.
- Acting for a Thai-listed bulk carrier owner/operator in LMAA arbitrations in London against a Chinese shipbuilding company in relation to an alleged defect in the design of vessels built under 11 shipbuilding contracts.
- Acting for an upstream oil and gas company in disputes concerning an oil development project under a concession granted by the Kingdom of Thailand.
- Acting for a trading company in a SIAC arbitration in Singapore in relation to a contractual dispute involving the sale of steel billets to a Bangladeshi company.
- Acting for a Chinese state-owned company in a Gafta appeal in London in relation to a contractual dispute involving the purchase of Barley Feed cargo from a Middle-Eastern company.
- Managing, and ultimately resolving, a large-scale, complex dispute over the entitlement to claim demurrage where cargo discharge operations were allegedly delayed / prolonged due to compacting of urea cargo. This involved a series of back-to-back London arbitration proceedings under LMAA rules, Rule B Attachment applications under US laws, a sister ship arrest in South Africa, and mediation in London, which resulted in a 90% recovery on a multimillion-dollar claim.
- Managing external counsel engaged on charterparty disputes in the capacity of both charterers and disponent owners and under various forms of charters i.e. voyage, time and time trip charters across various legal jurisdictions and regimes.
- Managing a large-scale dispute arising from the sanctioning of the ship managers of five vessels on long-term time charters and committed to sub-charterers. This involved obtaining security for claims and negotiating settlements. An interesting aspect of this matter was that one of the ships was laden and enroute to a discharge port.
- Working collaboratively with vessel operators on laytime / demurrage disputes.
- Reviewing charterparties and contracts to ensure that contractual obligations for new and current business are in line with the company’s risk profile and obligations to comply with EU / US / UK sanctions and new carbon emissions / offset regulations (EU ETS / CII / EEXI / FuelEU).
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