Addleshaw Goddard
Richard Wise leads the insurance disputes team at Addleshaw Goddard, recommended for his ‘superb grasp of technical issues, coupled with a plain-speaking style’. The team is particularly experienced in international insurance disputes, Wise and associate Laura Payne specialise in the Bermuda Form, with warranty and indemnity coverage an additional area of expertise; ’first class‘ Natasha Winter has notable experience regarding claims supported by urgent injunctive relief.
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‘Addleshaw Goddard stands out for me by its relentless focus on the client's commercial objectives. For all the team's technical abilities, they never lose sight that the legal position is a means to an end: to ensure the client's business is protected and able to develop.'
‘Richard Wise has a superb grasp of technical issues, coupled with a plain-speaking style so that clients are given advice in a succinct, highly digestible way. Richard has an encyclopaedic knowledge of insurance law. He is also a great team-leader.’
‘A wonderfully personable and switched on team of lawyers, delivering a first-class service to their clients.’
‘Just excellent to work with. Legal expertise and knowledge of the market is a given, but the whole team at AG is a joy to work with. Richard Wise is making a real name for himself in the field. Bright and amazing attention to detail, yet able to cut through the rubbish to focus on the issues that really matter. Natasha Winter is also first class.'
'Laura Payne is exceptional in her work rate and product, but also so good to work with.’
‘Really outstanding for heavyweight insurance litigation.’
'Laura Payne is tenacious, hardworking and very bright.'
'Natasha Winter is brilliant at handling clients and making everyone feel at ease.’
Key clients
- White Oak Europe Acquisition Limited
- Project Angel Bidco Limited
- Dassault Aviation SA
- Alsford Page & Gems Ltd
Work highlights
- Acted for White Oak in obtaining summary judgment on liability in a £19m warranty and indemnity insurance claim in the Commercial Court.
- Represented Dassault Aviation (France) against Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co (Japan) in Dassault's successful challenge under section 67 of the Arbitration Act before the Commercial Court in London relating to a partial award on jurisdiction issued by an eminent ICC arbitral tribunal.
- Acting for a Fortune 500 company in arbitrations with excess liability insurers concerning losses in excess of $300m arising from one of its products.
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Partner and Head of Insurance Disputes. The insurance practice focuses on the representation of major national and multinational policyholders within the financial and professional services, retail and consumer, real estate, construction and pharmaceutical/health sectors. Contentious and non-contentious insurance coverage expertise include: product liability, US mass tort issues, professional indemnity, D&O, employers' liability, fidelity/fraud/corporate crime, right to light and construction all risks. Specialist Bermuda Form insurance disputes practitioner, with experience of acting in complex, international, multi-party disputes.International arbitration experience includes advising clients in relation to ad hoc proceedings, as well as those brought before the LCIA, ICC, SIAC, LMAA and ICSID. Richard also spent two years working in our Singapore office, advising clients throughout South-East Asia and in India. He is an active member of the firm's Asia and India Business Groups, having been seconded to two leading Indian arbitration practices in Mumbai and New Delhi in recent years.Experience of alternative funding methods, including CFAs, DBAs, third party funding and ATE insurance.
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The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Richard Wise