Gabriel Yuen

Biography

Gabriel specialises in international trade and logistics. Primarily a transactional lawyer (logistics, transportation and sale of goods, ship financing, ship sale and chartering, and corporate structuring of ship-owning and general trading entities), he also represents parties in arbitration and litigation.

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Recent Experience

• Acting for a Government of an Emirate in a project to develop, operate and manage existing and new ports.
• Advising a Singaporean offshore drilling rig owner on force majeure and contractual rights pursuant to a rig hire agreement with a major UAE oil company.
• Advising companies on carriage and transportation by sea implications arising from the Qatari blockade.
• Advising a USA company of major exchanges and clearing houses on title and delivery of oil products in the UAE.
• Drafting and preparing logistics, freight-forwarding and sale & purchase agreements for various companies and parties.
• Advising various parties on letters of credit and guarantees.
• Advising a German car manufacturer on autonomous vehicles regulation in the UAE.
• Acting for a major Saudi Arabian bank to de-register existing securities and register new ship mortgages over four tugs in Saudi Arabia to secure a facility of approximately USD30 million.
• Representing parties in ship sale and purchase transactions as well as escrow arrangements.
• Representing parties to incorporate entities in Panama, Liberia, the Marshall Islands and Seychelles, as well as advising on corporate structuring of ship-owning and general trading entities.
• Acting for and advising UAE banks on enforcement of ship mortgages in the UAE.
• Acting for a DMCC company in ad hoc arbitrations against a Danish shipping company in contract of affreightment and voyage charterparty disputes.
• Acting for a UAE ship owner against a Korean shipping conglomerate in a time charterparty dispute.