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Louise Campbell

Senior Associate
About

Louise Campbell advises (re)insurers in the London Market and internationally in respect of all aspects of financial lines policies and claims, including Directors’ and Officers’ Liability, Financial Institutions’ Professional Indemnity, and Crime policies.

Having successfully completed two secondments at a leading financial lines insurer, Louise is focused on providing accessible and astute advice on coverage, liability, strategy, and quantum to achieve commercial resolutions to claims and disputes.

Louise has extensive experience advising (re)insurers on coverage and acting as monitoring counsel in respect of a broad spectrum of underlying disputes and losses, as well as conducting financial lines policy wording reviews.

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising D&O insurers on coverage issues in respect of civil claims and regulatory investigations against a global commodities trader and its senior directors in connection with bribery and corruption activities. 
  • Acting as coverage and monitoring counsel for a tower of FIPI reinsurers of an international bank caught up in the ‘cum-ex’ scandal with civil and criminal aspects.
  • Advising D&O insurers in relation to the successful avoidance of the D&O Policy for fraudulent breach of the duty of fair presentation. 
  • Advising primary and excess insurers on coverage for (and monitoring the defence of) extensive FOS and other complaints in respect of alleged mis-selling.
  • Successfully obtaining two anti-suit injunctions in favour of London arbitration on behalf of London market insurers.
  • Advising a reinsurance market on the effective resolution of coverage litigation in Cyprus relating to significant fidelity losses suffered by a Cypriot bank.
Education
  • University of Law, Legal Practice Course
  • University of Southampton, LLB (Hons) Law
Languages
  • English

Prior Experience

  • 2021-2023, Senior Associate, Professional and Financial Lines, London office of an international insurance law firm
  • 2015-2021, Associate, Professional and Financial Lines, London office of an international insurance law firm

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