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    Contentious Insurance and Financial Services Lawyer 6+yrs - London, United Kingdom - Pinsent Masons

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    CONTENTIOUS INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES LAWYER - LONDON

    We are currently looking to recruit a lawyer to join the Firm's contentious insurance and financial services practice in the London office.

    The candidate will have a broad experience of litigation, insurance and financial services' disputes.

    The work will be a mixture of general insurance coverage, defence work, commercial disputes (acting for both insurers and policyholders) and commercial litigation for financial services firms.

    Providing coverage advice and analysis on a variety of policy wordings including D&O, PTL, Crime, Property/BI, Professional indemnity, Construction, W&I, Cyber Liability and Employer's liability
    Acting for insurers and financial institutions in a range of commercial disputes including mediations and arbitrations.
    Representing financial institutions and Directors and Officers in the defence of claims against them.
    Acting for commercial policyholders on a range of contentious insurance matters
    Financial Services and Insurance at Pinsent Masons
    The Financial Services Sector is one of the largest in revenue terms of our four Global Sectors.

    Insurance sits at the heart of our financial services practice, with three out of ten of the Firm's top ten clients last year coming from the Insurance sector.

    The RIF Team, within which the Insurance segment sits, consists of approximately 50 lawyers who focus on FS litigation, insurance, contentious and non-contentious financial services work allowing for opportunities of close collaboration and cross team working.

    The Team's primary clients are leading market financial services firms such as global banks, insurers, funds and brokers.
    RIF operates across our UK offices (especially London and Edinburgh) plus Dublin, Dubai and Luxembourg.

    Clients include major global and UK insurance businesses like Allianz, Aviva, AXA, Argo International, Travelers, Bupa, Direct Line Group, Legal & General, RSA, Simplyhealth and Zurich.

    We also act for a number of broker groups and leading brand retail distributors.

    The nature of the work is a broad base of contentious insurance work and will involve supporting one or more of the contentious partners and/or senior associates within a team environment.

    The Insurance team won "Insurance Team of the Year" at the Legal Business Awards 2020 and won the "Regulatory Team of the Year" award at the British Legal Awards 2019.

    Lawyers in the Insurance Team are encouraged to develop trusted adviser status at the Executive level for our largest clients, and they will be supported to develop these skills by lawyers with a proven track record of doing this.


    Genuine long-term career prospects supported through our "best in class" training and our Academy personal development programmes.

    Pinsent Masons has achieved more tier 1 rankings in The Legal 500 UK guide than any other firm, won the "Law Firm of the Year Award Legal Business" for the second time and is recognised among the most innovative law firms in Europe by the Financial Times.

    Pinsent Masons was also named Law Firm of the Year 2018 by The Lawyer, and is ranked No 4 on the UK Stonewall Workplace Equality Index 2020 and named as one of Stonewall's Top Global Employers 2020.

    At Pinsent Masons we value diversity and inclusion.

    We want to attract, retain and develop people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability/ long term condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected by local law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

    #INDLWe are currently looking to recruit a lawyer to join the Firm's contentious insurance and financial services practice in the London office. The candidate will have a broad experience of litigation, insurance and financial services' disputes.


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