Profile: Jeremy JO Harwood

Shipping and Maritime

Biography: Shipping & Maritime

Jeremy Harwood spent 19 years at Healy & Bailey LLP before its 2006 merger with Blank Rome. He is a partner in the New York office and admitted in New York, the US Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He concentrates his practice in international dispute resolution of commercial, insurance, re-insurance and insolvency matters. He is involved in all areas of international arbitration including award enforcement against foreign sovereigns based on alter ego theories. He also sits as an arbitrator on a regular basis. He is attorney of record in numerous reported commercial court decisions and arbitration awards. He has an extensive appellate practice, having argued over a dozen successful US Circuit Court appeals.

He is also an acknowledged expert on the interplay of US bankruptcy law with admiralty issues in maritime bankruptcy cases, on which he has lectured around the world and written many articles. He represents debtors, creditors and creditors' committees in maritime and non-maritime cases, most recently Royal Olympic Cruises, Millennium Seacarriers, Great Western Steamship and Oceantrade Corp.

He is the New York legal correspondent for the Steamship Mutual Underwriting Association (Bermuda) Ltd.

Mr Harwood was educated at Charterhouse School, the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and Oxford University. He was called to the English Bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.