Naomi Vary

Naomi Vary is a Partner specialising in resolving political risk and trade credit disputes.

Naomi is a leading lawyer in the field of political risk, trade credit, political violence and stand-alone terrorism insurance. She advises London and overseas insurers and reinsurers on a wide range of matters, predominantly involving coverage disputes, but also relating to wordings advice and recovery actions following claims.

In addition to her specialist area, she has experience in claims involving most major classes of loss, including contingency and bloodstock.

Naomi has worked on political risk and trade credit cases originating from numerous jurisdictions. Her experience includes working on political risk cases involving claims for expropriation, embargo, licence cancellation and selective discrimination, and trade credit claims involving commodity trading and bank lending, often with an element of fraud.

Trained at Herbert Smith, qualified in 1997. Associate at Herbert Smith until May 2002; June 2002-December 2016 Clyde & Co (Associate then legal director); February 2017-December 2017 Partner, Sedgwick; January 2018 to date, Partner at RPC.