Mr Edward Alder

Edward Alder is a barrister at Prince's Chambers and a leading practitioner in maritime, international trade and commercial dispute resolution. He is regularly instructed as counsel and arbitrator in high-value international arbitrations and appears before the Hong Kong courts in complex shipping and trade disputes, including ship arrests, injunctions, asset preservation measures, jurisdictional challenges and arbitration-related applications. Edward is Vice President of the Hong Kong Maritime Arbitration Group, Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Maritime Law Association, the Hong Kong branch of the Comité Maritime International, and author of the chapter on Pollution in Maritime Law and Practice in Hong Kong (2nd Edition). His practice spans the full spectrum of disputes arising from the movement of goods, vessels and commodities across global supply chains, where he advises shipowners, charterers, traders, insurers and other stakeholders, and is closely engaged with developments shapin