Insurance Lawyer

This role is with a global reinsurance business. In this newly created position, you will support underwriters and claims handlers in all non-contentious reinsurance wordings questions across the firm's international property and casualty reinsurance business.

On a day-to-day basis, you will:

• Act as a technical expert for wordings issues on treaty and facultative reinsurance business
• Assess proposed wordings for compliance with internal guidelines, clarity, accuracy and completeness, drafting amendments as needed and providing non-technical explanations of your analysis to underwriters, client managers and claims handlers;
• Develop new clauses and wordings as required;
• Help to identify emerging risks and shape our wordings requirements in relation to them;
• Share your expertise with internal and external clients through workshops, training sessions and briefing notes;
• Be actively involved in development of market standard wordings through participation in trade associations;
• Contribute to our peer review process;
• Deputise for the Head of Wordings as needed.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Minimum upper second class honours degree;
• Admitted to practice as a lawyer in the UK or Germany;
• Significant prior experience in P&C (re)insurance, whether at a specialist law firm or in-house as part of an underwriting, claims, wordings or legal team, including giving advice on complex coverage issues.