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About

Why AGW

Senior decision-makers in shipping and trading often have lawyers, brokers, operators, insurers and internal teams around them. What is harder to find is independent judgment that connects the whole picture.

AGW provides that judgment: discreet, commercially grounded and informed by decades of direct experience across shipping, freight, energy trading, marine insurance and disputes.

Value in deals, operational workings and setbacks is not always obvious at the outset. Shipping and trading are complex, volatile, fast-moving industries. Risk and value are intertwined. Without risk there is little value, but by the time risk emerges, it can wipe out value. The focus is to identify such factors early and address them.

01

Seeing the whole chain

Whether you are seeking to build shipping or trading capability or deliver an integrated approach, understanding the pressure points and value decisions the supply chain brings are key to successful positioning.

02

Testing the commercial reality

A complete supply chain perspective, combined with economic assumptions, the mindsets of different market players and deep legal experience, contributes to a distinctive approach to achieving your specific objectives.

03

Knowing where pressure appears

The advice is informed by direct experience of complex commercial structures, major shipping claims, casualties and operational decision-making under pressure.

The Director

Naama Lebrecht

Director, AGW Maritime Energy Advisory Limited

Naama Lebrecht, Director of AGW Maritime Energy Advisory

Naama Kahn, known professionally as Naama Lebrecht, has over twenty years' experience across shipping, freight, oil trading, LNG trading, marine insurance and complex disputes.

Her 20+ years experience includes working as senior in-house legal counsel for an oil major with substantial shipping and trading activities, claims handling in an International Group P&I Club, and shipping litigation experience covering bills of lading, charterparties, tanker cargo claims, casualties, demurrage, off-hire, liens, arrests, multimodal transport and commercial negotiations.

Admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales, deep experience and understanding of the structures that underpin these industries informs the quality of commercial advice provided.

Relevant Experience

AGW’s advisory approach is informed by experience across:

  • shipping (tanker, LNG, dry bulk, container), freight, oil and LNG trading;
  • chartering, trading and supply-chain structures;
  • claims, disputes, incidents and counterparty distress;
  • operational, contractual and commercial risk;
  • legal, commercial and leadership decision-making in global markets.

Complex chartering and newbuild structures where price, optionality and long-term exposure needed to be tested together.

Freight and trading arrangements where shipping obligations and commodity requirements needed to work together in practice.

Cross commodity structures drawing on the commercial understandings of different lines of shipping businesses.

Strategic review and acquisition due diligence, assessing value, risk and integration issues across multiple business lines.

AGW draws on a discreet network of senior expertise across shipping, trading, energy, finance, insurance, technical operations and related specialist disciplines. This enables clients to access informed, practical judgment across the commercial, operational and risk issues that sit around complex decisions.