Managing general agents

Advocacy

Our in-house barristers chambers delivers quality in-house advocacy and advisory services.

Aviation and aerospace

With significant global aviation expertise, we offer high-quality, specialist and cost-effective advice on any aviation-related insurance issues you face.

Civil Liberties, Public Bodies and Specialist Liability

With many years' experience acting for the public and private sectors in these complex, and sensitive areas, we offer expert advice across discrimination and Equality Act claims, abuse and social services claims, unlawful detention, and Deprivation of Liberty claims (DoLS).

Construction and Engineering Disputes

Our highly experienced global team delivers a consistent, quality claims experience across the full range of construction and engineering risks.

Contingency and Event Cancellation

As leading lawyers in the insurance sector, we can advise on any issues relating to contingency claims and event cancellation/non-appearance claims.

Costs

We deliver costs expertise for you with deep experience and use of knowledge that underpins our whole business.

Counter Fraud

Our Counter Fraud team is the most digitally advanced in the UK with huge strength and scale comprising of 100 lawyers in all UK jurisdictions.

Cyber and Data Risk

We provide a full-service solution, tackling the full spectrum of cyber and data risks faced, and insured, by our insurance sector clients.

Data, Privacy and Cyber in Insurance

The combined skills of our Insurance Advisory and Data, Privacy & Cyber practices means that we are uniquely placed to advise on both legal and practical challenges.

D&O and Financial Institutions

Our extensive experience from across the globe covers both financial institutions and commercial Director & Officers (D&O) matters.

Employment Practices Liability

Our market leading employment practice includes a specialist Employment Practices Liability (EPL) team who support UK and global insurers

Insurance Advisory

As a firm with insurance at the heart of its business, we understand the regulatory challenges faced by insurers, brokers and distributors.

International Casualty

Our market leading team acts for primary and excess insurers and reinsurers in London, Europe, Bermuda and the US.

UK Casualty

Our market-leading Casualty team acts for composite insurers, London market and run off insurers, providing deep and broad expertise across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

International Personal Injury

As a full-service law firm with global reach, we are market leaders in all aspects of international personal injury.

Legal Indemnities

Our specialist Legal Indemnities team advises on claims against all types of legal indemnity policies. We also provide a claims-handling service.

Life Sciences

Our life sciences team advises many of the UK’s leading pharmaceutical companies, medical device, software, and AI manufacturers, as well as consumer healthcare suppliers and their insurers.

Marine, Energy and Transport

Our marine, energy and transport insurance practice has global expertise to advise you with practical and commercially focused advice.

Motor

Our specialist insurance lawyers make up one of the largest national motor teams in the UK.

Policy Wording

As a market leading specialist with a truly international platform, we advise the insurance sector on all product governance and policy wordings to help manage your risk.

Political Risk, Trade Credit and Political Violence

We advise on the physical and financial impact of political risk, from war and terrorism to nationalisation, confiscation, expropriation and deprivation.

Product liability, safety and recall

Our experts advise on all aspects of product liability, safety and recall and can help you manage the full range of risks involved.

Professional Liability

Our leading professional liability team maintains an unparalleled reputation for protecting the interests of professional services firms.

Property

We act for market leaders across sectors as diverse as commercial, residential, real estate, local authority, retail, hospitality, manufacturing, construction, energy and waste management. Our team is experienced in policy coverage disputes, subrogated recoveries, defence of property damage claims and reinsurance disputes.

Reinsurance

With a unique position in the reinsurance market, as long-term trusted advisers for the insurance sector, we deliver innovative solutions with a commercial perspective.

Strategic Advisory

Our strategic advisory team uniquely offers market insight on reforms together with commercial and regulatory advice in the claims space.

Transactional liability

As a leader in the insurance sector, our transactional liability team provides a full range of services to transactional liability insurers.

Travel and tourism

Our team handles travel and tourism claims with an international focus. We act for overseas and UK motor liability insurers, overseas hotels, airlines, and more.

Insurers

With a unique position in the insurance market, as long-term trusted advisers for the sector, we deliver innovative solutions for insurers for any critical risks or issue.

Insurance Brokers

Our expert team defends claims made against insurance brokers covering the whole spectrum of risks, both UK and international.

Managing General Agents

With deep roots in the insurance intermediary sector, we have the expertise to advise you on any issues as a Managing General Agent (MGA).

Corporate Insurance & Risk

Our UK Corporate team comprises over 40 lawyers and works closely with specialist colleagues in other teams who provide support on taxation, finance, compliance and regulatory, employment, pensions, litigation, real estate, competition, procurement and IT, and intellectual property aspects of transactions.