Rozenn Lopin

Practice Areas

Rozenn has over 20 years' experience. She has an international practice with an emphasis on insurance in industrial and maritime sectors.

In this regard, she represents many insurers of the French and English markets in disputes brought before French courts and arbitral tribunals. She also advises her clients on the drafting of insurance policies and the adaptation of some to French law.

Rozenn has in-depth experience in general liability, product liability, special risks and property related disputes.

Rozenn also represents shipowners, oil companies and traders (commodities) and has developed a strong reputation in the management of their risks.

Rozenn has gained a reputation in enforcement measures and thus regularly participates in the arrest of ships, aircrafts and of any type of asset.

She holds a Maîtrise in Private Law from the University of Brest and a DESS. Rozenn was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1997. She then joined the Paris Clyde & Co firm, where she became a partner in 2004.

Rozenn’s expertise in maritime law is praised by the legal guides Legal 500 (EMEA 2024 - France) and Chambers & Partners (Europe 2024 - France).

Experience

Insurance and reinsurance:

• Advising an English market insurer on the professional liability of the French office of an international law firm

• Drafting the general terms of a policy for an English market insurer seeking to sell a new insurance product on

the French market

• Advising a Swiss insurer in the context of an insurance fraud in the jewellery business

• Advising an English insurer on the interpretation of a policy governed by French law and covering the risk of

natural disasters

• Advising a French insurance company in a limited binding authority related dispute

Marine, Air and Transportation:

• Handling of major claims resulting from maritime casualties: Estonia, Hyundai Fortune, Rokia Delmas, Erika

• Advising a leading offshore shipowner on the implementation of limitation of liability Funds

• Advising a leading offshore shipowner on the terms of a construction contract relating to the order of more than

25 new buildings

• Advising a leading offshore shipowner in the context of ship arrests

• Advising a French market insurer in the context of a dispute arising from the derailment of a freight train

• Advising English hull insurers of a pipe layer following a fire on a shipyard

• Advising various exporters on the drafting of transportation agreements

International Trade and Energy:

• Advising oil companies operating in France on the drafting of national and international transportation

agreements

• Advising traders in the context of a suspension of payment of a documentary credit following fraud