David Chadwick

Practice Areas

David is a Partner in our London office who qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1992. His practice has a particular focus on policies involving political and financial risk, professional indemnity and insurance and reinsurance.

A specialist in insurance, David has vast experience advising political risk insurers in relation to the adjustment and defence of claims involving all types of political risk policies, such as confiscation, expropriation, nationalisation and deprivation, and contract frustration and contingency (change of law) policies. He has also advised clients on credit insurance policies and has acted on a range of political violence and ‘discord risk’ claims, building up significant experience involving multi-jurisdictional claims in Africa, EMEA and Latin America. David is also a member of our Caribbean practice team.

Another significant area of focus for David is the financial institutions sector, in which he has a wide range of experience acting for insurers on matters such as claims including civil liability, bankers blanket bonds and directors’ and officers’ claims. He has had heavy involvement in some of the most high-profile claims to affect the financial markets, often comprising cross-jurisdiction exposure. In addition to his contentious experience in this space, David also regularly advises on wordings-related issues and is experienced in the area of policy drafting.

David handles a wide range of professional indemnity matters, acting for professionals such as investment brokers, management consultants, solicitors and surveyors. He also often acts for insurers and reinsurers in relation to claims involving litigation, pre-contractual risk assessment, policy reviews and drafting, and both treaty and facultative business.

Finally, David also acts on a wide range of transactional risk claims, including claims relating to warranty and indemnity policies, and tax indemnities.

He is a member of the Forum of Insurance.

David also contributed to the fourth edition of Kennedys’ Global Legal Handbook, one of our most popular guides, which outlines the main legal and procedural issues that case handlers may encounter when dealing with claims across 53 jurisdictions globally.