Klaus Kostka

Practice Areas

• Shipping

• Logistics

• Insurance

• Trade

• Energy and Offshore

• Engineering

• Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses

• Dispute Resolution

Career

2011

Founding Partner, Fleet Hamburg

1997

Partner, Taylor Wessing

1994

Associate, Taylor Wessing

1994

Second State Examination in Law

1992 - 1994

Trainee, Ince & Co., London and Hapag-Lloyd, Hamburg

1992

Doctorate

1989

First State Examination in Law

Languages Spoken

German, English

Work Highlights

Assisting clients with their participation in a tender for the largest shipbuilding project of LNG-tankers to date.

Representing the insurers of Norwegian/English owners of a car/vehicle carrier in relation to a major casualty in the Atlantic resulting in several hundreds of damaged or destroyed vehicles.

Representing the primary insurer vis-à-vis London reinsurers in a coverage dispute concerning the largest claim to date involving an organized robbery of a cash-in-transit company in Germany.

Ongoing advice and representation of one of the leading German tanker shipping companies.

Enforcement of claims in excess of USD 100 million against Chinese shipyards following termination of shipbuilding contracts by a German shipowner.