Wynne

Lawrence

Partner

Clyde & Co

Wynne is a Partner in the Insurance and Reinsurance disputes team in the Clyde & Co London office and a founding member of the firm’s cross-disciplinary Climate Change and Resilience practice group. Wynne specialises in (re)insurance coverage disputes, with a focus on complex reinsurance matters involving multiple parties and jurisdictions. She acts for both cedents and reinsurers on common and uncommon issues arising under facultative and treaty reinsurance. Wynne also has particular experience in disputes related to run-off transactions and insurance linked securities (ILS). She advises on issues under reinsurances governed by English law, often for Lloyd’s and London market clients. In addition she provides advice on English or international reinsurance custom and jurisprudence where this is relevant under reinsurances governed by other systems of law. Wynne represents global (re)insurance market clients involved in disputes before the English High Court and Arbitration tribunals (ad hoc, ARIAS, LCIA) and regularly advises on UK (re)insurance regulatory matters (FCA and Lloyd's) and wordings. Wynne is a recognised thought leader on climate liability risk and the insurance industry response to the challenge of climate change and other emerging planetary boundary risks. She was lead author of the Insurance Development Forum’s report on "Technology and the protection gap" and Clyde & Co’s series of reports on Climate Change Liability Risk and Biodiversity Liability Risk and co-author of the Geneva Association’s flagship report on Climate Litigation. In her climate change consultancy work, Wynne advises insurers and companies in other industries (shipping, aviation, trade and commodities, natural resources) on climate liability risk exposures, and arranges bespoke seminars and workshops on climate-related liability risks to businesses, directors and officers.