Aviva has reduced its defendant legal panel from nine firms to a modest four, in its first comprehensive review in ten years. The four firms to have made it onto the list are DAC Beachcroft, Clyde & Co, DWF and Kennedys Law. The smaller panel is part of a strategy to streamline Aviva’s general insurance […]
Insurance expansion is continuing at Clyde & Co as the firm has recruited a product liability team from rival DWF. The Lawyer can reveal that the departing group of DWF lawyers is led by two London partners: Peter Barnes and Charlotte Kelly. Barnes, a dual-qualified solicitor and barrister, leaves the listed law firm nearly seven […]
Clyde & Co’s former senior partner is leaving the firm, The Lawyer has learnt. Simon Konsta will leave Clydes for DAC Beachcroft next year. Konsta was the senior partner of Barlow Lyde & Gilbert (BLG) from 2008 until Clydes merged with the insurance firm in 2011. That same year, Konsta was appointed Clydes’ global head […]
FTSE 100 insurance giant Aviva is carrying out a panel review as the roster’s three-year term comes to an end. Its last review was undertaken in 2019 after the company decided a traditional review had not been necessary in 2016. The roster is split in two between the group panel, to which Allen & Overy, […]
There has been an influx of business interruption (BI) cases filed since the Covid-19 insurance case judgment was handed down by the Supreme Court in 2021, with a lot of the new claims addressing some gaps in that conclusion. The outcome of Covid-19 played havoc on business owners, especially those having to trawl through their […]
“I acted for a client 20-odd years ago that went from 50 firms on its panel to 12, and we thought that was absolutely revolutionary,” says BLM’s legacy senior partner Matthew Harrington. “Now clients are looking at panel sizes, certainly in the general insurance market, of two to three firms.” And that, in a nutshell, […]
Dentons has lost a corporate partner duo to Eversheds Sutherland, including its former global chair of its insurance group. Martin Mankabady has made the move from Dentons to Eversheds along with fellow partner Adriana Cotter. Mankabady, who led Dentons’ insurance group, had been at the firm for over six years, having joined from Clyde & […]
A Clyde & Co equity partner is set to join The Ince Group, making her the first major exit from the firm as early-stage merger talks continue with BLM. Partner Jennette Newman is to leave after three years at Clydes, having also been a longtime partner of BLM. At Ince, she will become head of […]
Weil Gotshal & Manges and Clifford Chance are acting as members of life insurance provider LV= prepare to vote on the proposed takeover of the business by Bain Capital Credit. The deal, which has been on the cards for a nearly a year, has attracted a flurry of criticism as it would result in the […]
Willkie Farr & Gallagher is expanding its corporate insurance team, having ramped up its hiring activity, particularly in the City, over the past fortnight. Willkie’s new joiners this time are from DLA Piper, with the firm hiring insurance sector co-chair Prakash Paran, who is based in New York. He joins along with DLA counsel Gabriel […]
Insurer RSA Group has appointed a new general counsel after its £7.2bn acquisition earlier this year. Jonathan Cope takes on the GC and company secretary mantle from Charlotte Heiss, who departed the 300-year old British insurer in the summer. As part of the role, he is responsible for the UK and international business, which comprises […]
Insurtech Tractable has brought in a senior lawyer from GoCardless as its new group general counsel. Caroline O’Connor, who was previously deputy GC at fintech GoCardless, joins Tractable as its legal chief. The business has a GC in the US, Antony Pfeffer, but O’Connor will be the first lawyer in the UK to build out […]