Debattisa

Charles Debattista, formerly Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Southampton (until 2011), is a barrister at Stone Chambers. Charles specialises in all areas of dry shipping law and related aspects of international trade, including: Charterparties, Bills of Lading, International Sale of commodities and goods, Letters of Credit, Bank Guarantees, Cargo Insurance, Ship management contracts, Ship sales.

With full rights of audience before the Courts in England and Wales, Charles also has an extensive advocacy practice in arbitration hearings in the UK and abroad: he also regularly sits as an Arbitrator and is a CEDR accredited mediator. His international arbitration practice started in 2002, since when he has either appeared or been an arbitrator in well over 200 arbitration references, in this country and abroad. Widely published, he has been closely associated with many of the main instruments used in shipping and trade law.

He is recommended in Chambers & Partners UK Bar and the Legal 500 for both shipping and commodities:
＂He was elegantly aggressive in putting forward his case.＂ (Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2015)
＂He was very quick in amending his strategy to get aligned with the evolving situation.＂ (Chambers & Partners UK Bar 2015)
’Very thorough and efficient’ (Legal 500 2014)
’Has a good manner with clients and deals with them in a way that inspires confidence.’ (Legal 500 2014)
＂extremely well-known and respected for Fosfa and Gafta arbitrations＂. (Legal 500 2013)