Rebecca Hopkirk

Rebecca has more than 20 years’ experience advising insurers and reinsurers on policy coverage and helping them to resolve large, complex, cross-border and global insurance and facultative / treaty reinsurance disputes.

She handles major property, energy, construction, oil and gas, petrochemical, power generation, renewable, mining, utilities, infrastructure, supply chain and political risk insurance and reinsurance claims in the UK and around the world including in emerging markets. She has handled and resolved disputes in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Far East, Australia and Pacific Islands.

Rebecca has been involved in major catastrophes including flood and earthquake losses. She has handled numerous treaty reinsurance disputes and negotiated substantial multi-party settlement deals.

She has extensive experience coordinating multi-jurisdictional disputes and resolving them without recourse to litigation, alternatively resolving them as expeditiously as possible via litigation, arbitration or mediation.

She has advised major insurers on Covid-19 non damage BI claims around the world, and also recently advised major reinsurers on a large complex energy loss impacted by the recent energy price crisis.

Rebecca regularly speaks on hot topics in the legal insurance space, and her skills as an eminent insurance and reinsurance lawyer have been widely recognized and are reflected in her “Leading Individual” ranking for Insurance and Reinsurance Litigation in Legal 500, 2022.