Experience

• Successfully defended stockbrokers and their professional negligence insurers in proceedings arising from a circular in support of an acquisition and rights issue.
• Successfully defended solicitors in multi-million pound litigation arising from aborted substantial underlying litigation.
• Successfully defended a market of insurers and reinsurers in a coverage dispute arising from a multi-million pound claim for indemnity by Tioxide Europe Ltd in respect of product liabilities (first instance and Court of Appeal).
• Acted for insurers and reinsurers of a merchant bank involved in a litigation arising from a multi-billion dollar bond offering.
• Acted for reinsurers in respect of Hurricane Katrina losses.
• Regularly acts for a top 10 firm of accountants on a variety of matters.
• Currently acting for insurers in multi-jurisdictional trustee liability claims.
• Currently acting for reinsurers in oil pollution claims arising in Asia.
• Currently acting for reinsurers in global catastrophic mining claims.
• Currently acting for insurers and reinsurers in contingent business interruption claims following the Varanus Island gas process facility explosion.
• Currently acting for insurers in claims arising from Madoff.
• Currently acting for insurers in Jewellers Block claims.

Significant reported cases

• The Guild (Claims) Ltd v Eversheds (stockbrokers)
• Tioxide Europe Ltd v CGU International Insurance PLC (insurance/reinsurance)
• Holder v Countrywide Surveyors (surveyors)
• Hubner v Symes Robinson Lee (solicitors)

Clients

• Insurers and reinsurers
• Financial institutions
• Professions including accountants, architects, engineers, solicitors

Publications

• Regularly lectures on insurance and reinsurance