Niamh Cleary

Practice Areas

Niamh Cleary has a broad and varied commercial practice, with a particular emphasis on aviation, insurance and reinsurance, competition, and professional negligence. Her practice also encompasses banking and finance, public procurement, and regulatory/consumer law. She is ranked by the directories in Aviation (C&P Band 3; Legal 500 Band 4), Insurance and Reinsurance (L500 Band 3) and Group Litigation (C&P Band 4; L500 Band 3).

Niamh has extensive experience of heavy litigation and complex disputes, both domestic and international, as well as of large scale multi-partly claims. She is regularly instructed in the High Court both as sole advocate and as part of a wider team. She has also acted in arbitration claims under a range of procedural rules.

• Instructed by various reinsurers in respect of claims under hull war risks policies, arising out of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

• Instructed by FW Aviation (Holdings) 1 Limited in its aircraft leasing dispute with VietJet Aviation JSC.

• Pollack v Google: Instructed in a class the action on behalf of UK publishers who have suffered loss as a result of Google’s abuse of its dominant position in the adtech sector.

• Acted in various LCIA arbitrations relating to political risk insurance disputes.

Career

Called 2012 (England and Wales); 2020 (Ireland).