Our Policyholder Disputes team are dedicated insurance coverage specialists, with deep expertise in political risk, political violence, terrorism and war risks insurance claims.

• We only act for policyholders, captives and cedants in disputes against the London and international re-insurance market.
• We have acted in numerous high-value political risk disputes and recovered significant funds for clients.
• We have extensive experience handling disputes with an international reach. We regularly act in litigation and arbitration for clients with operations in overseas jurisdictions, including those with exposures in Russia and Ukraine.
• We are market leaders in innovative funding arrangements (including third party funding) to manage risk or suit the economics of our clients’ businesses.
• Our International Arbitration team is able to advise and act on potential further recoveries of uninsured losses via investment treaty arbitration.

Our experience includes:

• Advising lessors and investors on claims arising from the expropriation of aircraft in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.
• Acting in LCIA arbitration against London market insurers for a US drilling operator on its Political Risk claim for the loss of an oil drilling platform abandoned as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
• Acting in an LCIA arbitration against numerous insurers on a  $100m political risk dispute arising from the July 2021 riots in South Africa.
• Acting in long-running, multi-party political violence coverage litigation over the 2010 ‘red shirt’ riots in Bangkok, with total claims valued in excess of $150m.
• Acting for a policyholder in a claim for the loss of its fuel terminal in Afghanistan, following the violent dispossession of the terminal by the Taliban.
• Representing a Southeast Asian sanitary products conglomerate against its French insurer in relation to improperly declined claims under a trade credit policy.
• Acting for a private equity buyer of an educational service provider in relation to a declined claim under its warranty & indemnity policy, following discovery of accounting irregularities after completion of the transaction.