Caroline Pennington de Rodríguez Sánchez

Highlights of Caroline’s work include the following:

• Acting for a major Latin American oil and natural gas company in a range of disputes arising under an offshore drilling contract in an UNCITRAL arbitration. Appeared at twelve hearings before the Tribunal du Commerce in Paris, and a London-based arbitral tribunal in relation to substantive issues and interim measures.
• Represented a substantial steel trading company in an LCIA arbitration for repudiatory breach of contract under a sale/purchase agreement.
• Defended a series of twelve charterparty claims and challenged the jurisdiction of three separate tribunals in related LMAA arbitrations.
• Acted for an oil major party to a Contract of Affreightment in an LMAA arbitration and related English High Court proceedings.
• Represented a trading house in a complex appeal of a first-instance FOSFA decision in a USD29m trade arbitration related to the non-delivery of sun-flower oil.
• Managed a series of LMAA arbitrations brought by the insolvency estate of an international bunker trader against its debtors.
• Acted for a major trading house in relation to the expert determination of a dispute arising under a SCoTA agreement.
• Represented South Korea’s largest trading company in a GAFTA trade arbitration of a demurrage claim and an alleged refusal to unload a cargo of wheat.
• Acted for PDVSA in the High Court and Court of Appeal proceedings in PetroSaudi Oil Services (Venezuela) Ltd v Novo Banco SA and others, which was an important case concerning the ‘fraud exception’ to the autonomy principle of letter of credit.
• Assisted a major trading house in disputes arising out of the Quingdao metals scandal involving the use of fraudulent warehouse receipts.
• Drafted many bespoke contracts for the sale/purchase of hard and soft commodities, including coal, oil and grains.
• Reviewed and drafted multiple contracts for commodities clients including offtake agreements, shipbuilding contracts, letters of indemnity, refund guarantees and brokerage agreements.
• Assisted a large North African agricultural business on investment in a sugar refinery.
• Drafted a bespoke Heads of Terms, and related Supply, Services and Cooperation Agreements for a USD10m involving the supply, handling and storage of palm oil and the construction of a refinery and storage tanks for one of the world’s largest soft commodity trading houses.
• Drafted a bespoke contract for the inland transportation of goods for one of the world’s premier trading houses.
• Drafted a set of template time charterparties for a major natural gas supplier.
• Drafted a variety of charterparties, guarantees, washout contracts and settlement agreements for a major global trading house.

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