Rory Thomson
I am a senior associate in CMS’s Insurance & Reinsurance Group. I advise on a wide range of commercial and financial disputes, with extensive experience acting for legal and financial professionals, financial institutions, directors and officers, and their insurers in the defence of complex and high-value claims. I also advise insurers on complex coverage disputes.
I have represented clients in the UK Supreme Court and courts in Scotland and England.
I am qualified in Scotland and in England and Wales.
Relevant experience:
- A solicitor and their professional indemnity insurers in a successful appeal to the UK Supreme Court, in one of the most significant solicitor's negligence cases in recent years.
- A firm of solicitors and their professional indemnity insurers in the successful defence of a complex and high-value claim involving allegations of dishonest assistance and negligence.
- An insolvency practitioner in the successful defence of a multi-million pound claim involving allegations of negligence.
- A solicitor in the defence of a multi-million dollar claim in the English High Court involving allegations of breach of confidence and fraudulent conspiracy.
- A global insurer on complex aviation coverage issues arising out of the conflict in Ukraine.
- Secondments to the claims team of two of the London Market’s largest insurers and three secondments to the dispute resolution teams of two of the UK’s largest financial firms.