William Cuthbert Baldwin

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Jones Walker LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Representative Transactional Matters: Counsel for borrower in connection with $350,000,000 indenture secured by ship mortgages on offshore supply vessels flagged in United States, Vanuatu, Mexico,
  Isle of Man
  Special maritime counsel in connection with $100,000,000 indenture secured by ship mortgage on gaming vessel
  Counsel for lender in connection with $12,000,000 financing of new build US flagged vessel
  Counsel for lender in connection with $12,000,000 refinancing secured by ship mortgages on two US flagged vessels
  Representative Litigation Matters: Trial
  appellate counsel for vessel owner in vessel arrest proceeding arising out of maritime lien claims related to the financial collapse of the OW Bunker conglomerate
  obtained judgment following bench trial in favor of vessel owner against fuel supplier for supplier's maritime lien claim. Trial court judgment was affirmed by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Barcliff, LLC d/b/a Radcliff/Economy Marine Services v. M/V DEEP BLUE, 876 F.3d 1063 (11th Cir. 2017)
  Barcliff, LLC d/b/a Radcliff/Economy Marine Services v. M/V DEEP BLUE, 2016 WL 5660934 (S.D. Al. Sept. 28, 2016).
  Defend vessel owner before USCG
  NTSB in collision in inl
  waters.
  Represent client in numerous actions involving the enforcement of ship mortgages, purchase of vessel on credit bid at US Marshal's sale,
  sale to third party.
  Represent maritime lien claimants in vessel seizure actions, sale of seized vessels
  enforcement of lien claims.
  Co-counsel for Weatherford International, Inc. in the Multidistrict Litigation arising out of the Deepwater Horizon blowout, In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, MDL No. 2179 . Weatherford was dismissed with prejudice on summary judgment at the conclusion of discovery.
  Trial counsel for fleeting company in vessel allision case
  obtained dismissal of fleeting company following close of plaintiff vessel owner's case at trial.
  Ruiz, et al. v. Waterman Steamship Corporation
  Maersk Line Limited - 2011 WL 4089416 (Tex. App. - Houston [1st Dist.] 2011)
  ATM Reza, et al. Waterman Steamship Corporation
  Maersk Line Limited - Case No.: 02-CV-2012-900746-MAY in the Circuit Court of Mobile County, Alabama - counsel for the owner
  the bareboat charterer of the M/V MAERSK ALABAMA in defense of civil claims arising out of the hijacking of the M/V MAERSK ALABAMA by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia in April 2009.