Carl has a broad corporate practice with extensive experience advising on a wide range of corporate transactions, with a particular focus on the Insurance sector and the Financial Services sector.
Carl heads up DLA Piper's Insurance sector group in the UK. Carl has significant experience advising clients on transactions in the insurance sector, including in the non-life, life and Lloyd’s markets. Carl’s experience includes advising insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries and financial sponsors on domestic and cross-border M&A, insurance portfolio transfers, reinsurance transactions, strategic investments and JVs, group reorganisations and related insurance regulatory matters. Carl’s experience also includes advising banks, asset managers, fintech and insurtech companies and other players in the financial services markets on their corporate transactions.
Carl is ranked in Chambers and Partners as "Up and Coming" for corporate insurance transactions. He has been quoted as being “a very practical, user-friendly and articulate lawyer whose judgment clients trust” and as a lawyer with “a growing reputation in the London insurance market” and as someone who is “on top of all the moving pieces of a deal”. Carl has spent time on secondment in Shanghai, China working on international M&A involving Chinese companies and at a global insurance broker during his career.
EXPERIENCE
University of Southampton, LLB
College of Law, London, LPC
