Andrew Wilding LLB Hons is a maritime lawyer qualified to practice law professionally in England and Hong Kong with over 28 years specialist experience in drafting, negotiating advising on and resolving matters for the oil industry. Andrew also advises on marine, and transportation contracts for ship owners, ship managers, charterers, commodity traders and their insurers. Andrew received an honours degree in law from the London School of Economics (2006). After completing academic studies Andrew trained professionally in the design construction and operation of oil tankers and commercial shipping at the University of London and obtained significant practical experience from time spent at sea.

Andrew then trained and qualified as a maritime specialist in the City of London with a premier maritime law firm Sinclair Roche and Temperley (SRT). Upon qualification Andrew moved to Hong Kong and was an Associate in the Hong Kong office of SRT prior to joining the Singapore office of Stephenson Harwood (following their merger with SRT) where he was made a Partner, and was responsible for establishing and running a successful shipping litigation department at Stephenson Harwood's office in Singapore a department which continues to thrive to this day. Whilst in practice Andrew appeared before the English House of Lords, The Privy Council and The Court of Appeal as well as arbitration tribunals throughout the world including Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Paris, London and New York.

Andrew has lectured for academic and professional institutions in Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, London, and in the United States.

Andrew left Stephenson Harwood in 2008 to join Roger Sepkes at Asdem and set up the Singapore office where he focused on working as a commercial and legal specialist advisor and consultant to the oil industry. Following Roger's retirement in 2016 Andrew was appointed the Managing Director of Asdem.

Andrew is a visiting professor of English Maritime Law and has lectured for numerous academic and professional institutions in Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, London and the United States. He is the author of numerous published articles on Maritime Law and has contributed to a number of books for the oil and gas industry.

Captain Amol R. Deshmukh is a Master Mariner with an L.L.M degree in Maritime law from the University of Southampton. He is also qualified as an advocate in India and has over 20 years of experience in the maritime industry. Amol spent over eleven years at sea during which he served with various major tanker operators which allowed him to gain significant experience on crude oil, product and chemical tankers.

Before joining Asdem, Amol setup and headed the global shipping claims team at a major tanker owner and charterer. During his last tenure, he spent considerable time in analysing and negotiating demurrage claims and acted as the first point of contact for all shipping disputes within the group's fleet of owned and chartered vessels. Amol's role involved providing legal advice to the commercial team and liaising with P&I Clubs, correspondents, surveyors and solicitors to ensure prompt and efficient handling of claims and disputes. He was also closely associated with the major IG Clubs and managed a variety of claims related to demurrage, charter parties, bills of lading, cargo, crew, collision, allision, grounding and general average.

In his present role, Amol acts as Director of Asdem Ltd.

Tony Yates, Consultant to the Oil Industry. Tony holds a Master Mariners Class 1 Certificate of Competency and sailed on tankers for 13 years. He subsequently worked as a marine technical surveyor in the U.S., before joining an International inspection company where he served as Regional Manager for the U.S. Eastern Seaboard for several years. He returned to the UK in order to take up a position with BP's Cargo Assurance (Loss Control) team.

Over recent years Tony held a number of managerial roles and retired as Head of Operations for BP Oil International Ltd in March 2014.