Felix is a partner in the firm’s Insurance and Construction group and is based in London, with 3 main strands to his insurance market practice. First, he has 20 years’ experience of advising on defending claims made against professionals (including solicitors, brokers, financial advisers and construction professionals) and directors and officers, usually with the support of their professional indemnity/FI/commercial D&O policies and insurers. Secondly, Felix regularly advises on coverage issue and disputes arising out of PI policies (e.g. on post-Grenfell claims) and on management liability/D&O policies, FI/Bankers Blanket Bond, Warranty & Indemnity Policies, Tax Liability, Political Risk and Trade Credit, cyber policies and aviation policies. Having acted for one of the defendant insurers in the FCA Business Interruption Test Case, Felix also has extensive experience of property and Business Interruption insurance. Finally, Felix is increasingly called upon to advise insurers on the drafting of insurance policies in these classes of business.
Recent experience includes:
- advising the cyber insurers of a Bahrain Financial Institution on breach response following a ransomware attack.
- acting for excess layer insurers in an arbitration concerning a professional indemnity coverage dispute arising from a failed EfW project.
- advising the London Reinsurers of a Kuwaiti Insurer in relation to coverage under a fidelity policy following employee thefts of over £20m from a Kuwait bank.
- Acting for one of the Defendant insurers in both the Divisional Court and on appeal before the Supreme Court in the FCA’s Business Interruption Test Case.
- Advising in relation to a claim for USD 180m under a Political Risks policy following the confiscation by the Russian army of a Ukrainian windfarm.
- Advising a London market insurer on the wholesale rewording of their Commercial Combined Policy.
- Acting for reinsureds in confidential arbitration proceedings against aggregate excess of loss reinsurers in relation to disputes arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.
