Alex is a commercial disputes lawyer focusing on insurance coverage and ADR.
Alex is head of the contentious Insurance and Professional Risks team in London. His practice includes all aspects of insurance coverage disputes, commercial litigation and contentious regulatory investigations. He heads the firm's market leading Alternative Dispute Resolution practice. He is a solicitor advocate and a CEDR accredited mediator.
He is particularly known for his work with clients in the energy and natural resources sector where he has represented policyholders on many of the largest losses in the London and international insurance markets, assisting clients to recover hundreds of millions of dollars from insurers through negotiation, mediation, litigation and arbitration.
Alex established and leads the firm's Decision Analysis service helping our clients take more rigorous decisions on a range of contentious matters.
Accolades
Legal 500 UK and Chambers UK have ranked Alex as a Hall of Fame/Leading Individual for Insurance Litigation for Policyholders for many years. He is described in Chambers UK 2025 as "ahead of his time in his approach to litigation and ability to think outside the box strategically" and in 2024 as "the best policyholder lawyer in the UK". Alex is also ranked in the Who's Who Legal Insurance and Reinsurance 2024 guide and recommended as one of the leading insurance disputes lawyers in England.
Alex was winner of the FT Innovative Lawyers 2022 Award for the most Innovative Practitioner in Europe.
Background
Alex has an MA from Cambridge University in law. He was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1997 and made a partner in 2004.
He has been a CEDR accredited mediator since 2006.
Experience & expertise
Selected matters
- AerCap in $3.5 billion Commercial Court proceedings concerning aviation insurance claims for aircraft lost in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine
- Nord Stream AG on a €400 million insurance claim pursued in litigation for damage sustained to the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in September 2022
- Single Buoy Moorings Inc in Commercial Court proceedings on a US$1.3 billion construction all risks insurance claim concerning the Yme platform in the North Sea
- a leading pharmaceutical company on opioid-related D&O insurance recoveries
- a global pharmaceutical company in an insurance arbitration in relation to a D&O insurance claim
- wind farm operators on property damage and business interruption insurance claims both onshore and offshore
- a major power company on property damage and business interruption claims at a biomass-fueled power station
- BP in relation to insurance recoveries following the Deepwater Horizon loss
- Monoline insurer Financial Guaranty Insurance Company in a US$200 million claim against the German bank IKB arising out of guarantee arrangements in support of a complex structured finance transaction
- a FTSE 100 company on recoveries under professional indemnity and D&O policies following regulatory investigations into investment funds in the Channel Islands
- BP and over 30 joint venture partners in a US$230 million coverage dispute with underwriters and brokers over an offshore construction all risks open cover facility
