Simon Maxwell Email & Phone Number

Simon, as a solicitor in HFW's global Complex Environments team, provides crisis management, handles disputes and offers support to clients who operate in hostile environments. He is also a member of HFW's world-leading Shipping team, and he specialises in handling major marine casualties. He has first-hand experience of operating in hostile environments. Firstly, as an officer in the Royal Marines, where he served on operational duties abroad, and then in the National Crime Agency. He has previously been security cleared to a high government standard.He services a broad spectrum of clients operating in complex environments, including large multinational companies, extractive companies, special risk insurers, private security/ private military companies and shipping companies. He utilises his extensive experiences to better understand the issues facing those clients and then to provide robust solutions to those issues.As a shipping lawyer, Simon has acted on a number of recent high-profile collisions, fires, salvages, captures seizures and war risk incidents.

Listed skills include Afghanistan, Military Operations, Command, Military Experience, and 27 others.