Profile: Nick Parton

Shipping and Maritime

Biography: Shipping & Maritime

Nicholas Parton is one of the founding partners of Jackson Parton, a firm specialising in shipping, marine and non-marine insurance and international trade.

In common with his colleagues he handles both disputes (through mediation, litigation or arbitration) and transactions.

Mr Parton frequently acts as a solicitor advocate in urgent cases, thereby achieving the same result as the traditional solicitor and barrister approach adopted by other firms in the sector but at about 20 per cent of the cost and generally about five times the speed. This work involves anti-suit injunctions enforcing arbitration and jurisdiction clauses (both English and foreign); ship inspection orders; freezing injunctions; security for costs applications; interpleader proceedings; applications to strike proceedings out on various bases; and many other applications for interim remedies to the High Court in London in support of substantive proceedings on the merits in other jurisdictions relatively recently made possible by a change to English procedural law.

Mr Parton is equally at home working in French as he is in English and particularly enjoys working with French and French-speaking colleagues on matters involving France and other French-speaking jurisdictions.

Mr Parton is also very proud of his and his colleagues' strong connections with the Japanese marine market.

Jackson Parton has established highly effective close working relationships with marine and international trade lawyers worldwide and have no doubt that this way of working is more efficient and considerably more cost effective than maintaining overseas offices of their own.