Experience

BILA - British Insurance Law Association

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chair

  • Nov 2022 - Present

  Committee member at BILA since 2017 and Vice Chair from late 2020 to late 2022.



Friends of Moorfields Eye Hospital

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Vice Chair

  • Feb 2021 - Present

  London, England, United Kingdom And trustee at Friends of Moorfields since July 2018. Friends is a thriving member-led charity which has been supporting patients and staff at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for 60 years. It is very active at the trust’s network sites around and near London, relying for its activities on a small team of enthusiastic employees and a force of almost 300 keen and committed volunteers.



AIG

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Innovation Leader, Financial Lines UK

  • May 2017 - Present

  London, United Kingdom Product creation and drafting, insurance transactions and programmes, exposure and coverage advice, claims advice, insurance regulation, marketing, and internal training: D&O; employment practices liability; pension scheme liability (and bulk annuity transfer); sole trader management liability; expert team liability; cyber; data breach and GDPR; silent and affirmative cyber; mergers and acquisitions liability; monopoly and competition call-in; professional liability; tech and fintech liability;… Show more Product creation and drafting, insurance transactions and programmes, exposure and coverage advice, claims advice, insurance regulation, marketing, and internal training: D&O; employment practices liability; pension scheme liability (and bulk annuity transfer); sole trader management liability; expert team liability; cyber; data breach and GDPR; silent and affirmative cyber; mergers and acquisitions liability; monopoly and competition call-in; professional liability; tech and fintech liability; financial institutions (banks, insurers, investment managers, VCAPs); crime; kidnap; crisis, security and evacuation insurance; terrorism property damage. Show less



Aon UK

• Coverage Counsel, Financial and Professional Services (maternity cover)

  • Dec 2016 - May 2017

  London, United Kingdom



Chubb

• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• European Legal Counsel and Product Development Manager, Specialty Division (Financial Lines)

  • 2006 - 2016

  London, United Kingdom Drafting and marketing insurance policies for UK and European jurisdictions: D&O, public offering liability, employment practices liability, pension scheme liability, mergers and acquisitions liability, professional liability (miscellaneous, surveyors, architects, engineers, design and construct, accountants, solicitors, media, financial advisers), financial institutions liability (banks, funds, hedge funds, property funds, private equity, investment advisers, insurers), charity insurance… Show more Drafting and marketing insurance policies for UK and European jurisdictions: D&O, public offering liability, employment practices liability, pension scheme liability, mergers and acquisitions liability, professional liability (miscellaneous, surveyors, architects, engineers, design and construct, accountants, solicitors, media, financial advisers), financial institutions liability (banks, funds, hedge funds, property funds, private equity, investment advisers, insurers), charity insurance, commercial crime, financial institution crime, kidnap and ransom, cybersecurity. Complex bespoke insurance programmes. Multinational risk systems. Captives. Reinsurance. Compliance, incl: led implementation of Insurance Code of Business Conduct; created economic sanctions compliance procedure; led implementation of “contract certainty”; intermediary remuneration; training. Led Chubb’s application of Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 and Insurance Act 2015. Distribution: binding authorities; broker panels; affinity. Tax: created Chubb Europe’s insurance premium tax procedures for multinational risks; ran victorious insurance premium tax litigation against HMRC with important impact for the directors and officers liability insurance market.

• UK/Ireland Legal Counsel and Product Development Manager, Specialty Division (Financial Lines)

  • 2001 - 2006

  London



BLM

• United Kingdom
• Law Practice
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Lawyer then Partner

  • 1996 - 2001

  London, United Kingdom Insurance coverage advice. Complex coverage and professional negligence litigation, domestic and international, including Charterhouse Developments (France) Ltd v Alec Sharp Syndicate. Co-ordinating partner for international relationships. French Chamber of Commerce in Great Britain (Chambre de Commerce Française de Grande-Bretagne): Councillor from 1999 to 2001



Martineau Johnson (Shakespeare Martineau)

• Lawyer

  • 1994 - 1996

  Birmingham, United Kingdom Acted for insolvency practitioners and banks in corporate collapses (e.g. Matrix Churchill, Bimec Industries, Louis Newmark Group, Thunder & Colt Air Balloons), including business sales. Acted for banks in corporate lending and security transactions.



Hogan Lovells

• United States
• Law Practice
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lawyer

  • 1987 - 1993

  London, United Kingdom Acted for insolvency practitioners and banks in corporate collapses (e.g. Sock Shop, Airship Industries, CH Industrials, Tensator Products, Beclawat, Tickford Transport Products, Henry Barrett Steel Group), including business sales.



2 Crown Office Row (Crown Office Chambers)

• Pupil Barrister

  • 1985 - 1986

  London, United Kingdom