Bio
Dylan is a corporate and dispute resolution lawyer at Appleby, advising clients on complex corporate transactions, shipping matters, and high-value commercial disputes. His practice bridges transactional and contentious work, providing a comprehensive legal perspective that supports clients through every stage of the business lifecycle — from structuring and growth to dispute resolution.
Corporate:
Dylan advises multinational clients on cross-border financing and restructuring, M&A, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance, with a particular focus on the offshore sector. His work includes drafting due diligence reports, security documentation, and legal opinions on capacity and authority.
Shipping and Maritime Law:
Dylan advises on shipping-related transactions and maritime security structures, including vessel financings, mortgage documentation, and cross-border enforcement considerations, supporting clients operating within offshore and international shipping frameworks.
Dispute Resolution:
Dylan represents clients in cross-border litigation, with a focus on commercial disputes, shareholder disputes, insolvency proceedings, and contentious trusts. His experience spans high-value, multi-jurisdictional matters, delivering practical and commercially focused solutions.
Dylan has worked with clients across financial services, investment funds, and sectors including mining and shipping, bringing a strategic and commercially minded approach to both transactional structuring and dispute management.
Bio
Dylan is a corporate and dispute resolution lawyer at Appleby, advising clients on complex corporate transactions, shipping matters, and high-value commercial disputes. His practice bridges transactional and contentious work, providing a comprehensive legal perspective that supports clients through every stage of the business lifecycle — from structuring and growth to dispute resolution.
Corporate:
Dylan advises multinational clients on cross-border financing and restructuring, M&A, corporate governance, and regulatory compliance, with a particular focus on the offshore sector. His work includes drafting due diligence reports, security documentation, and legal opinions on capacity and authority.
Shipping and Maritime Law:
Dylan advises on shipping-related transactions and maritime security structures, including vessel financings, mortgage documentation, and cross-border enforcement considerations, supporting clients operating within offshore and international shipping frameworks.
Dispute Resolution:
Dylan represents clients in cross-border litigation, with a focus on commercial disputes, shareholder disputes, insolvency proceedings, and contentious trusts. His experience spans high-value, multi-jurisdictional matters, delivering practical and commercially focused solutions.
Dylan has worked with clients across financial services, investment funds, and sectors including mining and shipping, bringing a strategic and commercially minded approach to both transactional structuring and dispute management.
Work Highlights
Corporate:
- Advised a consortium of lenders on a financing supporting Trident Energy in connection with significant developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the NSOKO II & Lianzi fields.
- Advised the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund and performed independent analysis and reviewed diligence documents on a USD294 m debt raise in one of the largest finance debt packages for an African infrastructure.
- Assisted in a structured deal of USD 325 million 5.375 % secured notes due 2024 issued by Mauritius-based India Green Energy Holdings demonstrating investor appetite for sustainable investments.
SHIPPING LAW:
- Acted for a syndicate of international lenders in a major multi-jurisdictional offshore drilling rig acquisition and financing transaction, advising on maritime due diligence, ship mortgage agreements, cross-border ship financing and regulatory requirements arising from a corporate merger.
- Issued legal opinions on limitation of liability in connection with maritime claims and security packages for Mauritius global business companies.
- Advised on the purchase and acquisition of a fishing vessel, including advising on transaction structuring, coordinating due diligence, and overseeing the vessel registration process in Mauritius, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
Dispute Resolution:
- Successfully represented Canada Life International Limited in a claim concerning the interpretation of the effective date of calculation of the Net Asset Value for the redemption of shares and obtained judgment in the sum of USD 752, 854.17 against Metatron as well as USD 100,000 in costs.
- Appeared for Partner in Performance Global Solutions, a global mining consultancy company, in a breach of contract claim exceeding USD 10 million before the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court. During the trial, multiple foreign expert witnesses in the field of gold mining gave evidence, and several rulings were delivered by the Court in favour of the client.
- Drafted and coordinated urgent applications for vessel arrest proceedings before the Supreme Court of Mauritius highlighting intersections with international maritime law.
Corporate:
- Advised a consortium of lenders on a financing supporting Trident Energy in connection with significant developments in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the NSOKO II & Lianzi fields.
- Advised the Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund and performed independent analysis and reviewed diligence documents on a USD294 m debt raise in one of the largest finance debt packages for an African infrastructure.
- Assisted in a structured deal of USD 325 million 5.375 % secured notes due 2024 issued by Mauritius-based India Green Energy Holdings demonstrating investor appetite for sustainable investments.
SHIPPING LAW:
- Acted for a syndicate of international lenders in a major multi-jurisdictional offshore drilling rig acquisition and financing transaction, advising on maritime due diligence, ship mortgage agreements, cross-border ship financing and regulatory requirements arising from a corporate merger.
- Issued legal opinions on limitation of liability in connection with maritime claims and security packages for Mauritius global business companies.
- Advised on the purchase and acquisition of a fishing vessel, including advising on transaction structuring, coordinating due diligence, and overseeing the vessel registration process in Mauritius, ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.
Dispute Resolution:
- Successfully represented Canada Life International Limited in a claim concerning the interpretation of the effective date of calculation of the Net Asset Value for the redemption of shares and obtained judgment in the sum of USD 752, 854.17 against Metatron as well as USD 100,000 in costs.
- Appeared for Partner in Performance Global Solutions, a global mining consultancy company, in a breach of contract claim exceeding USD 10 million before the Commercial Division of the Supreme Court. During the trial, multiple foreign expert witnesses in the field of gold mining gave evidence, and several rulings were delivered by the Court in favour of the client.
- Drafted and coordinated urgent applications for vessel arrest proceedings before the Supreme Court of Mauritius highlighting intersections with international maritime law.
Qualifications & Education
- Dylan graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a First Class LLB (Honours) in 2018.
- He subsequently completed the Bar Professional Training Course at City, University of London in 2020, where he was awarded a Very Competent grade.
- Dylan graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a First Class LLB (Honours) in 2018.
- He subsequently completed the Bar Professional Training Course at City, University of London in 2020, where he was awarded a Very Competent grade.
Memberships & Associations
- Called to the Bar of England and Wales at the Honourable Society of Middle Temple in November 2020.
- Called to the Bar of Mauritius in January 2022.
- Called to the Bar of England and Wales at the Honourable Society of Middle Temple in November 2020.
- Called to the Bar of Mauritius in January 2022.