Baljit Rai

Practice Areas

Baljit Rai has over 21 years' experience of acting in commercial litigation and arbitration disputes in relation to insurance and reinsurance matters, specialising in advising insureds on policy wordings and policy coverage issues.

Baljit also advises on non-contentious insurance issues including policy wordings (e.g. Directors and Officers, Political Risk, Trade Disruption Insurance, Political Risk and Credit Insurance) and insurance structures.

Baljit has particular specialisation in and regularly advises a number of major banks and other financial institutions on the use of credit insurance as a credit risk mitigant under the Basel Accords and the Capital Requirements Regulation.

Career

St Hilda's College, Oxford University (BA MA Jurisprudence) 1996

Joined Clifford Chance 1997

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1999

Secondment to one of the largest reinsurers worldwide 2004

Secondment to a global bank 2009