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 and risk are intertwined. Shipping and trading are complex, volatile, fast-moving industries. Operational workings and setbacks are not always obvious at the outset. Maximising value requires early identification and mitigation of such factors.
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.
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.
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.
Naama Lebrecht
Director, AGW Maritime Energy Advisory Limited
Naama Kahn, known professionally as Naama Lebrecht, has over twenty years' experience across shipping, freight, oil trading, LNG trading deals, 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, and experience in an International Group P&I Club. Covering complex deals and disputes and all manner of operational challenges.
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.
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.
Examples
- High value transactions
- Complex deals and disputes
- Complete vessel life cycle — from newbuild to recycling
- Supply chain — from FOB to retail
- When all is going right and when it is not — from operational difficulties to crisis
- Crafting complex chartering and newbuild structures where price, optionality and long-term exposure needed to be tested together.
- Structuring freight and trading arrangements with shipping obligations and commodity requirements working together in practice.
- Engineering cross commodity structures drawing on the commercial understandings of different lines of shipping businesses.
- Appraising value of deals and businesses via strategic review and due diligence.