John joined Ince & Co London in 1999, moving to Ince Singapore in 2007. He was made a partner in 2010 and specialises in the handling of litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution. John has experience of English litigation and of arbitration in London and Singapore and he has supervised numerous multi jurisdictional disputes, where aspects of the matter need to be handled by foreign courts and lawyers in order to obtain security, enforce judgments and awards or obtain injunctions and other interim measures in support of proceedings in London and/or Singapore.

As well as advising on disputes arising under building contracts and charterparties, John has handled a number of offshore casualty issues including the constructive total loss of a semi-submersible rig following a grounding, groundings and collisions between vessels involved in the offshore industry and the associated general average, salvage and insurance issues arising. John is experienced in LMAA, LCIA, ICC, SIAC, SCMA and ad hoc arbitrations in London and Singapore as well as proceedings in the High Court in London.

John’s experience also includes international insolvency issues and enforcement work in relation to asset finance disputes as well as hedging contracts (particularly following the 2008 global financial crisis), insurance disputes (including coverage issues for insureds and insurers as well as insurance recoveries), international trade and commodities disputes and large scale engineering disputes.

John has spoken at various conferences in Singapore and elsewhere in relation to these areas of the firm’s practice.  He is a keen sailor and participates in various sailing events in Singapore in his Nacra 20 catamaran.

James is a Senior Marine Manger and he joined the Admiralty department of Ince & Co in 2003.  Prior to that he spent 8 years at sea with the Royal Navy specialising in navigation and pilotage before coming ashore in 1996 to join the Operations and Claims department of a large London shipowner. During the following 7 years, James was involved with the commercial management of both tanker and dry cargo vessels and qualified as a Member of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (MICS).

James has been with the Singapore office for the last 7 years.  He travels widely on a variety of matters including collisions, groundings, salvage, total loss, fire and pollution incidents including the Bunga Kelana 3 collision (and 2,500 mt Crude Oil pollution claim) in the Singapore Straits, the B Oceania collision and subsequent sinking in the Malacca Straits, the Al Rawdah grounding off Batu Berhanti and the Vinalines Queen total loss off the Philippines, and is a member of our emergency response team.

Jonathan joined Ince Singapore in 2011 and is qualified to practice as a solicitor in England & Wales. He is also admitted as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore.  Prior to joining Ince Singapore, Jonathan worked at a Singapore law firm on a wide variety of transactional corporate and commercial matters.
 
Jonathan regularly advises on charterparties, carriage of goods, vessel construction disputes, marine casualties, FOB/CIF sale contracts and ship sale and purchase. He recently advised a state-owned oil and gas production company during its tender process and negotiations for the long-term charters of platform supply vessels and additional standby vessels. He has also assisted an offshore service provider in an arbitration of a complex dispute arising out of a contract for the refurbishment of a jack-up rig.
 
He is fluent in English and Malay.

Mohan is a senior litigator, having been admitted to the Singapore bar as an advocate and solicitor in 1993. He regularly advises clients and appears as counsel before all courts and arbitral tribunals in Singapore on a wide range of disputes including admiralty/maritime disputes, transportation, insurance (marine and non-marine), shipbuilding, energy and offshore, international trade and commodities disputes as well as general/commercial disputes.

Mohan is regularly named in legal directories as being among the top shipping lawyers in Singapore. He is regarded as “a standout name in Shipping” (Chambers Asia 2011) and a “talented and promising shipping practitioner”  who is “rated very highly” (Chambers Asia 2012).

Mohan has advised and represented shipowners, charterers and P&I Clubs in the Singapore courts in relation to numerous maritime casualties including groundings, collisions and oil pollution incidents. Notable cases handled include the Evoikos/ Orapin Global collision in 1997, the largest oil spill in Singapore’s history, the Ever Glory/Hual Trinita collision in 1998, the Bunga Kelana 3/Waily collision in 2010 which also caused widespread oil pollution in Singapore.

On the shipbuilding and energy and offshore front, Mohan has acted for shipowners in shipbuilding disputes relating to issues of force majeure/delayed delivery as a result of main engine manufacturing defects, advising shipowners and shipyards in relation to enforcement of refund/advance payment guarantees, as well as advising contractors against rig/FPSO owners in relation to enforcement of claims for unpaid services. Mohan has also considerable experience acting for rig/FPSO owners and operators in relation to claims for unpaid milestone payments, enforcing cross-claims against builders for construction delays/defective construction, handling flag state investigations into deaths/personal injuries onboard rigs and more recently, acting for an owner of a dive support vessel which sank while undergoing refurbishments at a shipyard.

He has been a committee member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore since 2005 and the Vice President since 2008.

Mohan is fluent in English, Malay and Tamil, both written and spoken.

Stephen Harper joined BW LPG in Singapore in January 2014 as General Counsel & Corporate Secretary. He has over 25 years’ experience as a maritime lawyer in wet, dry and commercial shipping matters. He has significant experience in casualty matters including KIRKI (1991) , IRON BARON (1995) and WORLD DISCOVERER (2000) as well as Royal Australian Navy Inquiries ( Sea King Helicopter crash Nias Island 2005) and the Loss of HMAS SYDNEY in WW2 (2008).

He holds degrees in Law and Arts from the University of Melbourne and was first admitted to practice as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia in 1985 following completion of articles of clerkship with Mallesons (now King Wood & Mallesons) in Australia. He is also admitted to practice in New South Wales, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. 

In the late 1980s Stephen worked in London with Sinclair Roche & Temperley and later returned to Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Australia where he became a partner in 1992. Subsequently he became a founding partner of Norton White, a shipping & aviation law firm in Australia.Before joining BW LPG  in 2014, he was the General Counsel of Enterprises Shipping & Trading S.A. in Greece from 2011.

Stephen maintains a corporate practising certificate issued by the Law Society of New South Wales in Australia and is a serving officer with the Royal Australian Navy Reserve.

Wai Pong overseas the management, development and growth of SCMA both in Singapore and Asia. During his seafaring career leading up to his master’s qualification, Wai Pong sailed on a wide range of oceangoing ships. Prior to joining SCMA, he worked for a prominent Singapore ship owner and headed up the commercial management of their handy sized fleet of dry bulk carriers. His involvement and experience in shipping / arbitration spans over 40 years.

Apart from being a Master Mariner, Wai Pong is a Fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers and the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology. He is also enrolled as an Associate Mediator on Singapore Mediation Centre’s Panel of Associate Mediators.