Daniella is a maritime arbitrator, a Full Member of the LMAA and the Association’s immediate past Honorary Secretary, which position she held between 2015 and 2021.

Daniella began her career as an English qualified solicitor (non-practising since 2004) and has specialised in shipping and international trade since qualification.  After 9 years in private practice, Daniella became inhouse counsel, retained by a trading group producing, selling and shipping bulk cargoes, in particular coal, steel and iron ore, involving around 500 fixtures per year.  Over a period of 7 years in this role Daniella gained particular expertise in fixture, operations and post-fixture aspects of charterparties, contracts of affreightment and bills of lading, sale, purchase and carriage of commodities (bulk and bagged cargoes), Black Sea shipments and carriage in ice conditions, as well as related letter of credit and insurance issues.

Daniella then continued to advise the trading group, as well as other owning, chartering and trading entities in a consulting capacity through her company, Hortation (London) Limited for a further 10 years.

Daniella began her arbitrating career in 2015, becoming a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2018 and a Full Member of the LMAA in 2020.  Daniella has particular expertise in charterparty, commodities, bill of lading and shipbuilding disputes.

Daniella has operational experience in South Africa, The Netherlands, South Korea and Ukraine.

Daniella is a member of the Baltic Exchange.