Cloudesley Long is a dispute resolution and risk advisory lawyer based in London, with a particular focus on shipping, aviation, and international sanctions and export controls.

Cloudesley has a range of contentious and advisory experience in the shipping and offshore sectors including advising on disputes related to charterparties, shipbuilding contracts, ship sale and purchase agreements, and problem loans.  Cloudesley's aviation experience includes lease disputes, aircraft redelivery disputes, and disputes arising from aircraft construction.

Cloudesley also advises clients on the impact of, and compliance with, financial and trade sanctions and export controls, with a particular focus on the transport, energy, natural resources and financial institutions sectors. His experience covers a wide range of sanctions regimes, particularly Russia, Iran and Venezuela. He advises on specific transactions, as well as general compliance with sanctions, and also has experience of drafting and advising on sanctions provisions in a variety of contracts including loan agreements, sale and purchase agreements and shareholder agreements, as well as carrying out due diligence in relation to sanctions compliance. He also helps companies to draft and implement sanctions compliance policies and procedures, and has given training on sanctions and export controls to a range of different entities.

Cloudesley has spent time on secondment in our international offices in Athens and Sydney, as well as nine months on secondment to a major energy company.