Contingent & Litigation Risks

A growth opportunity has arisen to join a recognised speciality legal risk underwriter. The existing team is looking to appoint an experienced solicitor with commercial litigation expertise to join as a key team member. Established interest in litigation and legal risks insurance and funding is essential. This would suit a progressive individual who enjoys client facing work with analytical skills to review a wide range of commercial litigation and legal risks.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a robust network of professionals in law firms and corporates, intermediaries, and funders, and capital providers.
• Able to participate and/or lead in the risk assessment and underwriting of commercial litigation and known contentious risks.
• Develop an understanding of bespoke insurance products related to legal risks including ATE risks, funder indemnity risks, defence side contingent risks, judgement preservation / appeal risks, among others.
• General technical underwriter duties, including screening and underwriting of risks, prep of prep of (non-binding indications) NBIs and referrals.
• Meeting, developing and maintaining of relationships with clients, brokers and related business partners.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5 years of experience practicing as an associate solicitor with a recognised law firm and ideally experience.
• Comfortable in presenting to develop product awareness/understanding for target clients.
• Developing, implementing, placing, and negotiating of litigation focused contingent liability products to commercial litigants, law firms or other prospective purchasers.

Aventum Search is acting as a retained executive search agency in relation to this vacancy. For more information, please contact, Jared Glazier (Managing Director) for more information.