Anna Shaw

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Anna specialises in financial lines and directors’ and officers’ liability insurance claims and coverage. Her growing practice is focused on complex coverage matters, advising insurers on notifications, claims and coverage disputes, and working with insureds in the defence of claims and their response to investigations. 

Anna works regularly with insured banks and payment service providers, asset managers, corporate service providers, private equity and other financial services firms. On the commercial D&O side, she advises on claims presented by or on behalf of directors from a broad range of sectors including pharmaceuticals, energy, technology and consumer goods.

Anna has experience of insurance coverage arbitrations as well as seeing litigation through to trial. She advises regularly on coverage matters involving civil and criminal proceedings and investigations in other jurisdictions. She also assists insurers with policy wordings.

Anna has worked in the London insurance market since 2010, which has included secondments to four insurers and a large broker. 

Experience

• Advising D&O insurers in relation to securities claims brought against multiple UK-listed insureds under s90/90A FSMA for alleged untrue or misleading statements in, omissions from, and/or delays in, information provided to the market.
• Acting for Civil Liability insurers in relation to the FCA review and associated litigation (up to the Supreme Court) concerning commission arrangements in the motor finance sector.
• Advising D&O insurers on claims arising from FCA and PRA investigations into a large high-street bank’s financial crime systems and controls.
• Advising on Crime claims presented by a payment service provider in relation to the targeting of a well-known cryptocurrency exchange by fraudsters and working with the insured in relation to settlements and recoveries.
• Defending D&Os facing claims brought by shareholders of a mining company.
• Advising insurers of a listed investment platform on notifications made in relation to a high-profile fund collapse and resulting FCA redress scheme and related civil litigation.
• Acting for insurers of a large telecoms company in relation to investigations, criminal and civil proceedings arising out of alleged false accounting by an overseas subsidiary.
• Advising insurers on complex year of account issues arising in relation to civil and criminal claims, DOJ investigations and securities class actions against insureds involved in the manufacture and marketing of prescription opioids.
• Acting for D&O insurers of a multinational oil and gas company in relation to criminal proceedings alleging bribery and corruption on the part of multiple D&Os in various jurisdictions.
• Advising insurers of private equity firms in relation to disputes concerning the investment in, and management of, portfolio companies in overseas jurisdictions.
• Advising Civil Liability insurers on claims relating to customer redress schemes and working with insureds in relation to the design and implementation of those schemes.