Our Team

Gareth is the Head of EMEA, Warranty & Indemnity Insurance within Liberty GTS, the largest team of underwriters in the market, with expertise of writing business throughout the EMEA region. Before joining Liberty (where he originally worked for its Pembroke platform), Gareth spent 2 years at AIG, most recently leading its UK based team of M&A underwriters. Prior to joining the W&I market, Gareth spent 10 years as a qualified lawyer in the corporate department of international law firm, Pinsent Masons. Gareth advised across the full range of private M&A transactions, specializing in private equity buy-outs and divestments and spent 9 months seconded as a deal executive to an institutional investor.

Markus leads the Liberty GTS Mergers and Acquisitions team for Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Before joining the Liberty GTS team in 2017, Markus spent more than six years as a qualified lawyer in the corporate department of international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. He advised across the full range of private equity as well as corporate M&A transactions.

Markus graduated from the University of Hanover, Germany (1.Staatsexamen). While obtaining his doctoral degree from the University of Hanover,he was a Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University, Chicago. Markus did his legal training (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court Hamburg including stages at international law firms Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Taylor Wessing.

Samuel graduated from the University of Birmingham with a BSc in Commerce and went on to study at BPP Law School in London. Samuel joined Nabarro LLP in 2010, qualifying as a solicitor in 2012 into the corporate department. Samuel focused on Private and Public M&A transactions in various sectors including real estate, technology and healthcare, with a number of those transactions being W&I insured.

In January 2016, Samuel joined the Liberty GTS (where he previously worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore) team in London underwriting warranty and indemnity insurance on UK and European M&A transactions. As the UK Manager, Samuel focuses on both transactions in the UK and English law transactions worldwide. Samuel has maintained excellent relationships with brokers and clients alike with significant experience working with private equity funds, corporates and management teams to ensure a smooth process during underwriting.

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.

Before joining the Liberty GTS team in 2017, Daniel spent more than four years as a qualified lawyer in the corporate department of European law firm Noerr LLP. He advised across the full range of finance transactions with a special focus on acquisition and real estate finance.

Daniel graduated from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1.Staatsexamen) and also obtained his doctoral degree from the University of Heidelberg. He did his legal training (Referendariat) at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt including a stage in London.
Daniel is an underwriter in the M&A team in Frankfurt underwriting warranty and indemnity insurance with a focus on German, Austrian and Swiss 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.

Adam joined Liberty GTS in 2018 from Allied World where he underwrote W&I policies for insureds from the UK and across a number of European jurisdictions and Australia.

Adam qualified as a solicitor in 2014. Before Joining Allied World, Adam spent 3 and half years working in the corporate department of international law firm Eversheds Sutherland. He specialised in mergers and acquisitions across a range of sectors and group reorganisations, joint ventures and matters of general company law compliance. He acted for large multinational corporates in both domestic and cross-border M&A. Adam has experience of working for clients in the MENA region after undertaking a secondment to Eversheds Sutherland’s Dubai office in 2016.

Hollie works as an analyst alongside the M&A team. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Hollie graduated in 2016 in Law from The University of Sheffield and spent a year studying at Copenhagen University in Denmark. After travelling for several months around Asia; Hollie worked as a Legal & Compliance Associate, helping General Counsels from various FTSE 100 companies to solve their strategic problems.