Gavin Coull

Partner

99 Gresham Street
London, EC2V 7NG
TEL: +44 20 7367 8028
FAX: +44 20 7367 8001

Gavin is a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson where he is a member of the firm’s Insurance goup. He acts for the London insurance and reinsurance market (both Lloyd's and companies) and international carriers, as well as corporate insureds. Before joining Steptoe, Gavin was a partner in a prominent London insurance and reinsurance practice.

Gavin specialises in dispute resolution and coverage advice for reinsurers and reinsureds, in respect of both treaty and facultative business, as well as complex international direct business and binding authority issues. He is also regularly instructed in matters involving fraud and has experience of obtaining and enforcing freezing injunctions and search and seizure orders, and of acting as Court appointed Supervising Solicitor. He has extensive experience of litigation, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, and has had conduct of significant matters in England and overseas (Bermuda and the US amongst others) and frequently acts as co-coordinating counsel for multi-jurisdictional disputes.

Reported cases in which Gavin has acted include Markel International Insurance Company Limited v Surety Guarantee Consultants Limited & Ors [2008] EWHC 1135 (Comm) and Sanger & Apter v Beazley [1999] LlLR 424.

Gavin also has a non-contentious practice, advising on insurance and reinsurance programme structuring and wordings, both traditional and alternative.

He also regularly contributes to industry publications and conferences.

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Publications

Hunting the Gorilla, Credit Crunch Survival Guide
November 2008, Global Reinsurance
Reinsurance Buying Strategies - Trends for 2009
October 2008, Global Reinsurance
A Return to the Three 'R's
September 2008, Global Reinsurance
Insider Quarterly Sub-Prime Crisis Fall-Out
July 2008, Insider Quarterly Summer 2008