Rebekah Jones
Rebekah is an experienced insurance disputes lawyer with a decade of legal practice in the Middle East. Rebekah’s day-to-day legal expertise include advising insurers, reinsurers and their insureds in relation to complex, high value, coverage and liability disputes across several business lines, with a particular focus on cyber and trade credit.
Rebekah has represented clients throughout all stages of the litigation process in the courts throughout the GCC, and various financial free zones, including the DIFC Court and QFC Court. She also has experience acting for clients in international arbitrations and mediations.
Rebekah has worked on several high-profile trade credit claims, many of which have attracted media attention. Examples of Rebekah’s experience include:
- defending insurers in two high-profile DIFC Court cases brought by commodity trading policyholders, with claims totalling c. US$8m, following the collapse of Phoenix, one of the world’s largest rice traders
- representing insurers in a trade credit coverage dispute brought before the UAE Centre of Amicable Settlement of Disputes and all three stages of the UAE Courts, addressing complex defences, time bar issues and offsetting of debts
- acting for re/insurers in a DIFC Court declaratory relief claim to protect their interests in a USD 5 million commodity trading dispute
- advising Insurers on a policy coverage dispute governed by English law, relating to payment default. Investigating potential fraud and breaches of the policy’s conditions precedent
- advising insurers on their trade credit policy wordings and ensuring compliance with English / UAE laws (as applicable)