Nigel Brook
Partner, London
Recent experience
- Enron/WorldCom/IPO laddering- advising on reinsurance issues arising out of claims against financial institutions
- September 11- acting/advising on a variety of reinsurance disputes in aviation liability, property, contingency, etc
- Finite (re)insurance- drafting and disputes
- Asbestos- advising on contested allocation issues
- Other large scale treaty reinsurance disputes
- PA/workers' compensation retro- led the team of four partners that acted for Sphere Drake in its Commercial Court action against Stirling Cooke Brown and others. SD alleged that the brokers had conspired with its agents in a massive fraud, exposing it to hundreds of millions of dollars in losses
- Following a 12-month trial Thomas J delivered a judgment running to several hundred pages, and found for Sphere Drake on nearly every point. This led to the firm winning the Legal Business 'Dispute Resolution Team of the Year' award in 2004
- Regularly drafts and advises on direct and reinsurance wordings