Our Team

Aude graduated from the University of La Sorbonne with a Master Degree in Business and Tax Law and was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2011. Aude joined the Paris office of King and Wood Mallesons (SJ Berwin) in 2011 into the M&A/Private Equity team where she focused on acquisitions and divestments of companies for French and foreign private equity funds and investors.

In 2013, Aude joined AIG as a senior underwriter in Paris and product leader for the France-Benelux zone. She spent several months in London with the UK team underwriting warranty and indemnity insurance on European M&A transactions. Aude joined Liberty GTS (where she originally worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore) in November 2015.

Stephanie graduated from the University of Auckland with Bachelor degrees in Law and Commerce (majoring in accounting). She was admitted to the High Court of New Zealand in 2008 and became a qualified charted accountant in 2010. Stephanie joined the M&A tax team at Deloitte, New Zealand, where she was involved with a number of high profile transactions. In pursuit of commercial experience, Stephanie left Deloitte to join an in-house tax team at one of New Zealand’s iconic financial services company, Tower Limited.

In 2013, Stephanie became a senior underwriter at AIG London. She has underwritten W&I policies with insureds from various sectors and jurisdictions, and has also been the lead underwriter leading a program of insureds and underwriters on a number of deals. Her specializations include underwriting European deals with US coverage attributes. She spent time in New York in early 2015. Stephanie speaks fluent Mandarin, which has added much value to Chinese insureds.

Dave graduated from the University of Cape Town in 2009 with a Postgraduate LLB and became a qualified attorney in South Africa in the beginning of 2012. Dave joined the Hogan Lovells Corporate/Commercial department in 2010 where he had a particular focus on telecoms and mining related M&A transactions before moving to Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs (ENSAfrica) in 2012. While at ENSAfrica, which is one of South Africa’s most prestigious and largest law firm, Dave’s main practice areas included M&A, corporate governance and black empowerment.

In 2014, Dave moved to London and joined DLA Piper where he worked as a Corporate Associate and concentrated on real estate, technology and Africa-focused transactions within the M&A (mostly private), joint ventures and private equity practice areas. Dave joined Liberty GTS (where he originally worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore) in 2017.

Barbara graduated from Universita’ Cattolica of Milan with a Master Degree in Business Law and was admitted to the Milan Bar in 2010.

Barbara joined the Corporate Department of an Italian independent leading law firm in Milan, where she focused on Private M&A. While working in the London office, Barbara completed a Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course at The University of Law in London. Barbara joined Clyde & Co LLP (London) in 2014, qualifying as a solicitor in 2016. During her training contract she spent 6 months seconded to the W&I team at XL Catlin.

In 2016, Barbara joined Liberty GTS (where she previously worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore) as an underwriter in the M&A team in London underwriting warranty and indemnity insurance with a focus on Southern European M&A transactions.

Henry graduated from the University of Bristol with an LLB and completed the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in London.

After working for Linklaters in London and Allens Linklaters in Sydney, Henry joined Ambridge Europe in 2015, underwriting warranty and indemnity insurance on international M&A transactions. Henry joined the Liberty GTS team in London in July 2018.

Before joining the Liberty GTS team in 2018, Sebastian spent more than five years as a qualified lawyer in the real estate department of international law firm Clifford Chance. Key aspect of his work was the advice of investors on acquisitions and sale of real estate, in particular portfolio transactions.

Sebastian graduated from the University of Mainz, Germany (1.Staatsexamen) and also obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Mainz. He did his legal training (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court of Koblenz.

Sebastian is an underwriter in the M&A team in Frankfurt underwriting warranty and indemnity insurance with a focus on Northern European M&A transactions.

Hanna graduated from the University of Stockholm with a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in 2017. In addition to obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in 2011 she also studied Business Economics. During the last year of law studies Hanna worked as a paralegal at a Swedish Law firm.

Prior to joining Liberty GTS (where she originally worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore) in 2017, Hanna worked with issues regarding data protection, writing numerous articles and giving lectures on the subject.

Hanna is native in Swedish and has bilingual proficiency in Norwegian and Danish.

Conor joined Liberty GTS in September 2018. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Conor studied law at The University of Sheffield, spending a year studying at KU Leuven in Belgium, and subsequently pursued a master’s degree in International Banking and Finance Law at University College London.