Clyde & Co is delighted to announce that John Keough has joined the firm's global shipping practice in New York.
John previously served as head of the well-respected New York shipping and litigation firm Waesche, Sheinbaum & O'Regan. John's practice focuses on maritime and shipping law and commercial litigation.
He has litigated complex international maritime, insurance and commercial disputes in state and federal courts throughout the United States, and has handled maritime and commercial arbitrations in New York, Boston and London. He has also advised clients in litigation in Hong Kong, Greece, Italy, Panama and elsewhere.
John's experience covers a wide array of such cases, including disputes arising from cargo loss, commodities trading, international fraud, international sales contracts, marine and inland marine insurance, reinsurance, the arrest and attachment of ships, bank funds and other property, charter party disputes, federal bankruptcy and foreign liquidation proceedings, vessel sales, maritime criminal proceedings against ship owners and seafarers, and the defense of serious personal injury and death cases.
John has also handled the investigation and litigation of major marine casualties, including collisions, sinkings, fires and strandings. He has advised ship owners, managers, charterers, hull and liability insurers, cargo insurers and P&I Clubs. John has also represented major film companies in marine cases, and has advised major shipping, commodities trading and food companies in a variety of litigation and transactional matters.
He is a member of the bar of the courts of the State of New York, of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
He also is a member of the bar of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Fifth Circuit, and the Eleventh Circuit, and of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. John has also been appointed a maritime arbitrator in New York City, is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Maritime Law Association of the United States, and serves on the MLA's Committee on Practice and Procedure.
Clyde & Co New York marine partner John Woods said: "John Keough expands both the breadth and experience of the marine capability of Clyde & Co in the U.S. With his extensive experience in shipping, insurance and commodities litigation and arbitration, John is a perfect fit not only in Clyde's U.S. practice, but also in the firm's broader-based global marine, transport and trade practice. We are delighted that he has chosen to join us."
Clyde & Co CEO Peter Hasson said: "Our U.S. and marine practices go from strength to strength and John will be an asset to both. We continue to invest heavily in our global lateral recruitment programme, having welcomed five new laterals worldwide since our two mergers with Barlow Lyde & Gilbert and Nicholl Paskell-Mede in the autumn last year."