The former head of Ince & Co's Piraeus office has joined law firm Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) to set up a maritime dispute resolution department at its Athens office.

In his 26 years at Ince, Antonis Lagadianos has handled multimillion-dollar cases on behalf of several major Greek shipowners such as Petros Pappas, Andreas Hadjiyiannis and John Coustas.

He moves in tandem with Evangelos Catsambas, who has worked for more than 20 years at Ince and Holman Fenwick Willan, advising numerous Greek shipowners, protection and indemnity clubs and hull and machinery underwriters.