Joanna Koukouli

Joanna Koukouli

Joanna Koukouli, LL.M. is the Co-Global Claims Director, based in the Managers’ Piraeus office, where she also serves as Joint Managing Director.

Joanna is a member of the New York State Bar, the Piraeus Bar, and the Law Society of England and Wales thereby making her a triple qualified lawyer. She obtained her first degree in law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and subsequently completed post-graduate studies at the University of Southampton in the UK, earning a LL.M. in Maritime Law, and at Brooklyn Law School prior to her admission to the New York State Bar.

Prior to joining SCB (Hellas), Inc., Joanna worked as a solicitor for a major English commercial law firm based in their Southampton office as part of the commercial litigation, shipping division team. She subsequently worked for a specialist maritime NY law firm involved in shipping litigation and after returning to Greece she served for five years as in-house lawyer at Danaos Shipping Co.Ltd., a Piraeus-based manager of a large containership fleet. In that capacity, she handled a wide variety of P&I, FD&D and transactional business including S&P, shipbuilding contracts, corporate, ship finance and was involved in the NYSE-listed parent vessel-owning company’s IPO and SEC filings.

Joanna has been with SCB (Hellas), Inc., since 2011 and as Co-Global Claims Director, she is responsible for formulating global claims’ policies, supervising and guiding regional Claims Managers and claims staff globally with respect to both P&I and FDD incidents, while also directly responsible herself for the direction and handling of the more complicated casualties and high level disputes. Joanna also represents the American Club in a number of International Group of P&I Clubs Sub-Committees, including the COVID-19 Working Group.

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