Richard Henderson has more than 25 years of experience advising banks, shipowners and investors in connection with the financing of ships, shipbuilding contracts, acquisitions and sales of ships and shipping-related businesses and restructuring of financings.

He has also advised clients extensively on other shipping-related contracts, such as LNG project tenders, offshore industry contracts, joint ventures and pooling agreements.

Richard Henderson is the author of a post-graduate course on ship finance at Lloyds Maritime Academy in association with the World Maritime University, where he is also an occasional lecturer.

He has also written and taught a post-graduate diploma course for Shanghai Maritime University and is also one of the original authors of Euromoney's Book on Shipping Finance.