Burges Salmon LLP has extensive experience acting for insurers, bolstering its understanding of the sector and related disputes, to the benefit of its policyholder clients. The team leverages its firm-wide expertise in the construction, infrastructure, and financial service sectors to provide expertise in insurance disputes in these sectors. The team is headed by Matthew Kaltsas-Walker, based in Bristol and London, who has particular expertise in construction insurance, financial services-related disputes, and public liability claims.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Matthew Kaltsas-Walker is a really smart and impressive lawyer, combining excellent legal skills with superb strategy.’

  • ‘Very knowledgeable, extremely hard-working, excellent lawyers, very pragmatic and very good with clients.’

  • ‘Excellent team, very high-quality work product, great team players, very down-to-earth and unpretentious.'

  • 'They are highly commercial yet very pleasant, excellent on the law and the details.’

  • 'Christopher Wenn is an excellent lawyer and a great team player.’
  • ‘Matthew Kaltsas-Walker is highly skilled and well respected in the industry.’

  • ‘Burges Salmon is a well-recognised leader in the insurance market.’

  • ‘Matthew Kaltsas-Walker is an outstanding lawyer. He grasps highly factually and legally complex situations adroitly and understands difficult points comprehensively. He is highly focused on his client's commercial goals. To top it off, he is pleasant and easy to work with.’

Key clients

  • Financial Services Compensation Scheme Limited
  • FirstGroup plc

Work highlights

  • Advised Financial Services Compensation Scheme on a portfolio of claims against defaulted SIPP Operators and their PI Insurers via the Third Party (Rights Against Insurers) Act 2010.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Matthew Kaltsas-Walker

Other key lawyers

Christopher Wenn, Elizabeth Pouget