Kirsten Emma Wright

Kirsten specialises in international commercial dispute resolution in the shipping and marine insurance sectors. Kirsten has a wealth of experience advising on casualty response and liabilities arising from collisions, groundings, explosions, salvage, General Average, injuries and fatalities at sea. She also regularly advises on complex contractual disputes relating to charter parties, bills of lading, vessel-sharing agreements, MOAs, cargo damage or contamination, and off-spec bunkers. Her experience managing major marine incidents in challenging jurisdictions has led her to advise kidnap and ransom, special risks, and war risks underwriters on issues arising from acts of war, unlawful detentions, extortions, kidnap and ransom events and crisis evacuations. 

Kirsten represents clients in high-value litigation and arbitration before the Courts of England and Wales (including the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court) and in LMAA, LCIA and LOF institutional arbitrations. Kirsten has undertaken secondments with a major shipowner/charterer and an International Group P&I Club in the Danish market. Kirsten is qualified in England and Wales and relocated to Copenhagen in 2025.