Associate/Senior Associate

Associate / Senior Associate – Financial, Casualty & Political Risk

The Role:
We are seeking a talented and commercially minded Senior Associate to join our Financial, Casualty & Political Risk team in London. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex and high-profile matters for insurers, reinsurers, financial institutions, and multinational clients.

The successful candidate will play a key role in advising on a broad range of contentious and advisory matters, including claims arising from warranties and indemnity (W&I) and other transaction liability insurance policies, political risk coverage, and financial lines policies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advising insurers and reinsurers on coverage issues and disputes across financial lines and political risk policies.
• Handling complex warranties & indemnity (W&I) insurance claims, including policy interpretation, coverage analysis, and litigation or arbitration strategy.
• Managing high-value and cross-border disputes involving casualty and financial risks.
• Providing strategic advice to clients throughout the lifecycle of claims and disputes.
• Supervising and mentoring junior lawyers within the team.
• Supporting business development initiatives and contributing to the growth of the practice.

Requirements:

• 3+ years' PQE with strong experience in insurance disputes or financial lines work.
• Demonstrable experience advising on W&I insurance policy claims or disputes.
• Experience with political risk, financial lines, or casualty claims is highly desirable.
• Strong litigation, analytical, and drafting skills.
• Experience working with insurer clients and understanding their commercial priorities.
• Excellent communication and client relationship skills.

About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We're a fresh-thinking firm, and we're not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive, distinctive and ambitious. Our are at the core of who we are and what make us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people's development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.