Our Team

Rowan Bamford
President

Rowan Bamford — President
+44 (0)7885 970688
rowan.bamford@libertygts.comRowan is President, Liberty Global Transactions Solutions (GTS) which consists of over 50 underwriters spread across six countries. Prior to joining GTS (where he originally worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore), Rowan managed AIG’s EMEA M&A book and also spent three years as a senior underwriter at Ironshore. Before joining the insurance market, Rowan spent eight years in the corporate department at the international law firm Dentons. Rowan specialized in private M&A work in the financial services sector and spent time on secondment to an investment bank and a Lloyd’s syndicate.
Americas

Scott G. Pegram
Underwriting Manager

Scott G. Pegram — Underwriting Manager
+1 (646) 826-6775
scott.pegram@libertygts.comScott is an underwriting manager in our New York office, focusing on M&A insurance. He has extensive experience managing M&A transactions across various sectors. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Scott spent 5 years working at AIG, where he focused on underwriting M&A transactions in the company’s M&A insurance group and also advising on insurance litigation matters with the company’s Commercial Litigation Department. Scott graduated from American University with a BA in Political Science, and holds a JD from Brooklyn Law School, with a concentration in business law.

Hilary Weiss
Underwriting Manager

Hilary Weiss — Underwriting Manager
+1 (646) 826-6772
hilary.weiss@libertygts.comMs. Weiss is an underwriting manager focusing on M&A insurance, based in our New York office. Hilary has extensive experience of structuring, underwriting and negotiating transactional insurance solutions across a broad range of industries and joined Liberty GTS from XL Catlin, where she was a transaction insurance underwriter, having previously been a M&A Insurance Specialist at AIG. Hilary received her B.A. in World Politics and Philosophy from Hamilton College and her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School. Hilary is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey (inactive).

Victoria Rosales
Underwriting Manager

Victoria Rosales — Underwriting Manager
+1 (646) 826-6766
victoria.rosales@libertygts.comVictoria’s expertise includes mergers, acquisitions and private equity investments across various sectors, including software, industrial and manufacturing industries. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Victoria practiced as a corporate associate in the New York offices of Willkie Farr & Gallagher for nearly six years. Victoria holds a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Harvard Law School and is admitted to the New York State Bar.

Jonah Goldberg
Production Counsel

Jonah Goldberg — Production Counsel
+1 (416) 216-2274
jonah.goldberg@libertygts.comJonah has extensive experience as a corporate lawyer both in-house and in private practice having advised internal and external clients across a range of sectors including financial services, life sciences, technology and FinTech. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Jonah was in-house counsel at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) providing strategic advice and guidance on RBC’s enterprise M&A and innovation activity. Prior to RBC, Jonah spent four years at Torys LLP where his practice focused on cross-border mergers, acquisitions and private equity transactions. Jonah holds a JD degree from Queen’s University and is admitted to the bar in the Province of Ontario.

Valentine Han
Production Counsel

Valentine Han — Production Counsel
+1 (646) 826-6751
valentine.han@libertygts.comValentine’s expertise includes domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, recapitalizations, and joint venture transactions for private and public companies. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Valentine practiced as a corporate associate in the New York offices of Reed Smith and DLA where his practice focused on cross-border mergers, acquisitions, and private equity transactions, and he practiced as a foreign corporate attorney in the Seoul office of Yulchon Attorneys-at-Law. Valentine holds a JD degree from New York University School of Law and is admitted to the New York State Bar. Valentine is dual-qualified in civil law and common law and he advised on corporate matters in Russian.

Sean Hinton
Production Counsel

Sean Hinton — Production Counsel
+1 (646) 940-0535
sean.hinton@libertygts.comSean has extensive experience as a corporate attorney, having advised corporate, private equity, and investment fund clients across a range of sectors, including financial services, life sciences, technology, healthcare, agribusiness, hospitality, chemicals, and biotechnology. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Sean was a corporate associate in the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP, where his practice focused on cross-border mergers, acquisitions, venture capital investments, and corporate reorganizations. Sean holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, with minors in International Relations and Hispanic Studies, from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Sean is admitted to practice in New York.

Brittani Marszalek
Production Counsel

Brittani Marszalek — Production Counsel
+1 (646) 826-6742
brittani.marszalek@libertygts.comMs. Marszalek has extensive experience as a corporate attorney, having advised private equity and corporate clients across a range of sectors, including food, finance, life sciences, entertainment, media and healthcare on both public and private transactions. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Brittani was a corporate associate at Winston & Strawn LLP and previously practiced at Goodwin Procter LLP and at DLA Piper LLP. Brittani received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, and a Minor in Middle Eastern and North African Studies, from The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and her JD from Columbia University Law School. Brittani is admitted to practice in New York.

Jason Remsen
Production Counsel

Jason Remsen — Production Counsel
+1 (917) 744-0470
jason.remsen@libertygts.comMr. Remsen has extensive experience as a corporate attorney representing private equity and corporate clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Jason was a corporate associate at Pepper Hamilton LLP and previously practiced at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP and McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Jason received his BA in English from Cornell University and his JD from Tulane University Law School. Jason is admitted to practice in New York.

Michael Saitta
Production Counsel

Michael Saitta — Production Counsel
+1 (347) 266-7581
michael.saitta@libertygts.comMr. Saitta has extensive experience as a tax attorney, having advised clients across a range of sectors. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Michael worked at PwC, where he oversaw tax due diligence and provided tax structuring advice for private equity and corporate clients on a wide variety of M&A transactions with a focus on the energy, healthcare, and consumer products industries. Michael graduated from the University of Connecticut with a BA in Political Science and Psychology, and holds a JD from Brooklyn Law School, with a concentration in business law, and is admitted to practice in New York.

Jurgita Somma
Production Counsel

Jurgita Somma — Production Counsel
+1 (646) 826-4928
jurgita.somma@libertygts.comMs. Somma is an attorney with extensive experience in a broad range of corporate and finance matters, having spent nearly nine years as counsel at General Electric Capital Corporation. Jurgita joined Liberty GTS from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where she advised banks, arrangers, lenders, borrowers, private equity sponsors and other financial institutions in a variety of investment grade and leveraged financing transactions, including cross-border and domestic acquisition financings and restructurings. Jurgita also undertook a secondment to Morgan Stanley. Jurgita received her BS in Criminal Justice and her JD from Pace University, is admitted to practice in New York and Connecticut and speaks Lithuanian, Russian and German.

Rickie Trudeau
Production Counsel

Rickie Trudeau — Production Counsel
+1 (646) 826-4986
rickie.trudeau@libertygts.comMs. Trudeau has extensive experience representing private equity clients and their portfolio companies on acquisitions, minority investments and restructurings and representing investment banks, commercial banks, strategic investors and private corporations in structuring multi-million and multi-billion dollar secured and unsecured credit facilities, including acquisition financings. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Rickie was a both a private equity and a banking and finance associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Rickie received her BA in History of Art from Yale and her JD from University of Pennsylvania Law School. Rickie is admitted to practice in New York.

Fernando Villaseñor
Production Counsel

Fernando Villaseñor — Production Counsel
+1 (347) 601-7873
fernando.villasenor@libertygts.comFernando has extensive experience working on complex projects and legal matters with respect to Mexico and Latin America. Fernando has advised a wide variety of companies in both domestic and international transactions involving the oil and gas sector, M&A, general corporate, aviation, cross-border transactions, antitrust, energy, real estate, and transactions with industrial, commercial, residential, and hospitality properties in Mexico and Latin America/Caribbean. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Fernando was a corporate associate at Haynes and Boone LLP (Dallas) and previously practiced at Romo Pailles SC (Mexico). Fernando received his master of laws degree from Northwestern University School of Law and his juris doctor from the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico. Fernando also completed a Specialization in commercial law at the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico City. Fernando is licensed to practice law in Mexico and Texas.

Angela Wu
Production Counsel

Angela Wu — Production Counsel
+1 (281) 409-7005
angela.wu@libertygts.comAngela is an attorney with extensive experience across a wide range of sectors, with a focus on oil and gas exploration and production, and transportation, as well as on corporate finance, infrastructure, renewable energy, project finance, technology, retail and general corporate matters. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Angela was a corporate associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where she advised private equity companies, financial institutions and corporate clients in a variety of domestic and international transactions. Angela received a BA in English and a BA in Psychology from Rice University, and her JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Angela is admitted to the State Bar of Texas.

Michael Hanlon
Analyst

Michael Hanlon — Analyst
+1 (646) 826-6634
michael.hanlon@libertygts.comMichael graduated from St. John’s University in 2017 with a BS in Risk Management and Insurance. Prior to joining Liberty GTS in 2018, he was part of AIG’s M&A insurance team where he worked with underwriters on deals across various industries.

Erik Ritzenthaler
Analyst

Erik Ritzenthaler — Analyst
+1 (646) 826-4911
erik.ritzenthaler@libertygts.comErik joined the team in July 2018 as a M&A analyst. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, he graduated from St. John’s University in May 2018 with a BA in Risk Management and Insurance.

Matthew Wolff
Analyst

Matthew Wolff — Analyst
+1 (917) 565-5714
matthew.wolff@libertygts.comMatthew joined the team in July 2019 as an M&A Analyst. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, he worked at Guardian Life, where he gained experience completing M&A, strategic venture capital, and other corporate strategy projects. Matthew graduated from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School with a BBA and completed concentrations in Finance & Accounting.
Asia Pacific

William Lewis
Head of Asia Pacific

William Lewis — Head of Asia Pacific
+61 2 9258 3015
william.lewis@libertygts.comWilliam is the Head of APAC for Liberty GTS. William joined Liberty (where he originally worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore as the Managing Director of Australia) from Allen & Overy in early 2013 to establish the Australian office and the Mergers & Acquisitions and Tax offering.
Prior to joining Liberty GTS, William was a private equity lawyer specialising for more than 10 years in tax structuring. William has worked at Weil Gotshal and Manges, Allen & Overy and at PricewaterhouseCoopers. William has a deep understanding of private equity transactions, tax structuring and insurance having advised numerous private equity houses while based in London, Australia and New Zealand.
William has a B’Com & LLB from the University of Canterbury and a Master of Laws (Tax & Commercial) from the University of Sydney.

Benn Wilson
Asia Manager

Benn Wilson — Asia Manager
+65 6320 7012
benn.wilson@libertygts.comBenn is Asia Manager for Liberty GTS in Singapore. Benn covers the Asia-Pacific region together with a team of underwriters operating out of Sydney, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Benn is a qualified solicitor (England & Wales) and graduate of Cambridge University with 10 years of experience in M&A, mostly in the Asia-Pacific region. He started his career in London as a corporate M&A lawyer with Ashurst LLP in 2006 before moving with Ashurst to Tokyo and then to Singapore, where he has lived for the last eight years. After leaving Ashurst and before joining Ironshore, Benn spent two years with a telecommunications company as an M&A adviser for the Asia-Pacific region.
Benn’s experience has helped support the growth of the M&A insurance market in Asia Pacific and he has underwritten a diverse range of transactions across the region.

Geoffrey Lee
Australia and New Zealand Manager

Geoffrey Lee — Australia and New Zealand Manager
+61 2 9258 3013
geoffrey.lee@libertygts.comGeoffrey is a senior associate M&A underwriter based in Sydney at Liberty GTS specializing in underwriting transaction risks relating to mergers and acquisitions throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Geoffrey has worked full-time at Liberty GTS (where he previously worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore) since March 2014, following a four-month secondment in mid-2013.
Geoffrey’s prior experience includes more than five year’s legal experience at international law firm DLA Piper. He has been involved in a broad range of corporate and commercial advisory work with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions. Geoffrey also worked in London with DLA Piper UK LLP in 2012. Geoffrey holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Sydney University and is currently completing a Masters of Law at Sydney University. Geoffrey also holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance), University of Sydney.

Nicholas Ferrari
Senior Underwriter

Nicholas Ferrari — Senior Underwriter
+61 2 9258 3014
nicholas.ferrari@libertygts.comNicholas is a mergers and acquisitions underwriter with the Liberty GTS Australia team. Nick focuses on transactions across the Asia-Pacific region as part of a team of underwriters operating out of Sydney, Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo.
Nick is a qualified solicitor (admitted in New South Wales, Australia) with 5 years’ experience, prior to joining Liberty GTS, in corporate law, working on private M&A and private equity transactions while at King & Wood Mallesons. Nick holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Arts (Politics) from Macquarie University.

Heidi Shum
Underwriter

Heidi Shum — Underwriter
+65 6622 9230
heidi.shum@libertygts.comHeidi is an underwriter at Liberty GTS in Singapore, focusing on M&A insurance in the Asia Pacific region.
Heidi was admitted to the Singapore Bar, after which she joined Baker McKenzie. As an associate in the Corporate & Securities team, she was involved in a broad range of corporate and commercial work, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions. Prior to that, Heidi was part of HSBC Global Markets in the management associate program and co-founded a travel start-up funded by Enterprise Singapore (formerly SPRING). Heidi holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting and Finance) from the University of Melbourne, and has passed all three levels of the CFA Program.

Keshaya Yap
Underwriter

Keshaya Yap — Underwriter
+65 6622 9239
keshaya.yap@libertygts.comKeshaya is an underwriter at Liberty GTS in Singapore, focusing on M&A insurance in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Keshaya was called to the Singapore Bar in 2016, following which she joined the Corporate and Securities team at Baker & McKenzie as an associate. During her time at Baker, she worked on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, with a focus on cross-border M&A and corporate restructurings. Keshaya holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Business Management from the Singapore Management University.

Marilyn Chakty
Assistant Underwriter

Marilyn Chakty — Assistant Underwriter
+61 2 9258 3016
marilyn.chakty@libertygts.comMarilyn joined Liberty GTS in February 2018 as a M&A paralegal. Prior to joining the Liberty GTS team, she graduated from Macquarie University with a Bachelor of Commerce and subsequently pursued a Bachelor of Laws at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Europe, Middle East and Africa

Gareth Rees
Head of EMEA

Gareth Rees — Head of EMEA
+44 (0)7714 973482
gareth.rees@libertygts.comGareth 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.

Aude Bonnemaison
Southern Europe Manager

Aude Bonnemaison — Southern Europe Manager
+44 (0)7885 971164
aude.bonnemaison@libertygts.comAude 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.

Markus Messinger
Head of Northern Europe

Markus Messinger — Head of Northern Europe
+49 (0) 69 427 260 410
markus.messinger@libertygts.comMarkus leads the Liberty GTS Mergers and Acquisitions team for Northern Europe.
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.

Stephanie Wang
Emerging Markets Manager

Stephanie Wang — Emerging Markets Manager
+44 (0)7475 440575
stephanie.wang@libertygts.comStephanie 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.

Samuel Whiteman
UK Manager

Samuel Whiteman — UK Manager
+44(0)7474 805701
samuel.whiteman@libertygts.comSamuel 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 Luckett
Senior Underwriter

Dave Luckett — Senior Underwriter
+44 (0)7711 423554
dave.luckett@libertygts.comDave 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.

Henry Pearson
Senior Underwriter

Henry Pearson — Senior Underwriter
+44 (0)7473 430161
henry.pearson@libertygts.comHenry read law at the University of Bristol and subsequently joined Linklaters (London) followed by Allens Linklaters (Sydney). Henry joined Liberty GTS in 2018 from Ambridge Europe, where he worked as a Senior Associate. Since joining the W&I market in 2015, Henry has developed extensive experience of underwriting numerous high-profile, complex domestic and cross-border transactions across EMEA and APAC, involving a diverse range of target sectors, from real estate to oil and gas.

Chris Brough
Underwriter

Chris Brough — Underwriter
+44 (0)7714 973328
chris.brough@libertygts.comChris joined Liberty GTS in 2018 from Allied World where he underwrote warranty and indemnity insurance on M&A transactions across a number of European jurisdictions.
Chris qualified as a solicitor in March 2015 and spent three years as a qualified lawyer in Eversheds Sutherland’s London M&A team, six months of which was spent on secondment as in house counsel to Aviva’s M&A team.

Barbara Magni
Underwriter

Barbara Magni — Underwriter
+44(0)7713 395778
barbara.magni@libertygts.comBarbara 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.

Daniel Müller
Underwriter

Daniel Müller — Underwriter
+49 (0) 69 427 260 420
daniel.mueller@libertygts.comBefore 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 Northern European M&A transactions.

Louise Nordkvist
Underwriter

Louise Nordkvist — Underwriter
+44 (0)7734 717425
louise.nordkvist@libertygts.comLouise graduated from the University of Lund with a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) and a BSc in Business and Economics in 2013 and thereafter joined the Swedish law firm Vinge, where she focused on private M&A as well as financial and regulatory issues relating to, among other things, banking and fund operations. Louise also spent nine months in 2017-2018 working in the M&A department at the London based law firm Travers Smith, before joining Liberty GTS in 2018 to underwrite Northern European transactions. She is native in Swedish and has bilingual proficiency in Norwegian and Danish.

Martin Roberts
Underwriter

Martin Roberts — Underwriter
+31 6 8290 3293
martin.roberts@libertygts.comMartin is an underwriter in the Northern Europe team underwriting warranty and indemnity insurance with a focus on Benelux M&A transactions.
Before joining the Liberty GTS team in 2019, Martin worked for 3 years for the Intertrust Group, a trust, corporate and fund management services provider, in various positions with an emphasis on M&A and deal structuring. During that time he was seconded for a year to The Blackstone Group, working for them on projects in Asia Pacific. Before that, Martin was an attorney at De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek focusing on M&A and regulatory matters. Martin obtained his LL.M. from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. Martin has lived and worked in Europe, the Middle East and Asia and is native in Dutch and English.

Sebastian Schmitt
Underwriter

Sebastian Schmitt — Underwriter
+49 (0) 69 427 260 402
sebastian.schmitt@libertygts.comBefore 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.

Adam Smith
Underwriter

Adam Smith — Underwriter
+44 (0)7713 110335
adam.smith@libertygts.comAdam 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.

Hanna Wiman
Assistant Underwriter

Hanna Wiman — Assistant Underwriter
+44 7710 710835
hanna.wiman@libertygts.comHanna 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 Duffin-Hall
Senior Analyst

Conor Duffin-Hall — Senior Analyst
+44 (0)7483 074811
conor.duffin-hall@libertygts.comConor 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.

Alexander Mackay
Analyst

Alexander Mackay — Analyst
+44 (0)20 3758 0612
alexander.mackay@libertygts.comBefore joining Liberty in August 2019, Alex was engaged on the Aldi Graduate Scheme working as an Area Manager within the Darlington region. Prior to this, he read Law at the University of Liverpool before moving on to pursue an LL.M in Corporate Law focusing on M&A, Insurance and Secured Transactions.
Tax

Jugdeep Singh
Head of Tax

Jugdeep Singh — Head of Tax
+44 (0)7483 067599
jugdeep.singh@LibertyGTS.comJugdeep is the Head of Tax within Liberty GTS. Prior to joining, Jugdeep was an Associate Partner with EY specializing in M&A tax. Jugdeep also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers (both in London and New York). Jugdeep has more than twenty years’ experience in advising on tax structuring and diligence across a broad range of cross-border M&A buy-side and sell-side transactions.

Christopher Waddington
Senior Tax Underwriter

Christopher Waddington — Senior Tax Underwriter
+44 (0)20 3758 1820
christopher.waddington@libertygts.comChris is a Senior Tax Underwriter in the Liberty GTS tax insurance team, with a focus on providing cover for specific known tax risks arising in both an M&A and non-transactional context. Before joining, Chris was a solicitor. He qualified into the Linklaters’ tax group in 2008 and later spent several years at PwC, Clyde & Co and, most recently, Hogan Lovells as a senior tax lawyer. During this time he advised clients on a broad range of tax issues in the context of M&A and real estate transactions, as well as acting for corporate taxpayers in a variety of tax disputes with HM Revenue & Customs. He holds a first class honours degree in engineering and business from the University of Birmingham.

William Hess
Senior Tax Underwriter

William Hess — Senior Tax Underwriter
+44 (0)20 3758 1819
william.hess@libertygts.comWilliam graduated from Cambridge University in 2011 with a BA(Hons) in law and also holds a BSc(Hons) from the Open University in Mathematics and Economics. He was admitted by the ICAEW as a chartered accountant in 2016.
William joined Deloitte’s international tax advisory team in 2012 where he mainly advised large UK listed groups on a range of UK and overseas tax issues, including tax audits, litigation and their responses to the BEPS Actions. In 2017 he joined Deloitte’s M&A Tax practice where, as an Associate Director, he advised on all tax aspects of the deal process. His focus was mainly on mid-market private equity deals and large, high-profile, corporate transactions and restructurings across a range of industries. In 2019, William joined Liberty GTS’s tax insurance team.
Claims

Nick Horsmon
Claims Counsel

Nick Horsmon — Claims Counsel
+1 (212) 208 2866
nicholas.horsmon@libertygts.comNick joined Liberty GTS in November 2018 and oversees the GTS claims practice for the Americas.
Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Nick practiced as a litigation and regulatory associate at Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass LLP in New York City, where he represented insurers and reinsurers on a wide array of domestic and international coverage matters, including business interruption and reinsurance claims. Nick’s experience also includes organizing and leading a strategy consulting project for Barclays UK in London, as well as internships with the UK Parliament, U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Nick earned an MBA from the University of Oxford’s Saїd Business School, where his studies focused on global and nonmarket strategy. Nick also holds a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School, where he was a member of the International Law Review, and a B.A., magna cum laude, in International Relations from Rollins College.

Simon Radcliffe
Claims Counsel

Simon Radcliffe — Claims Counsel
+44 7483 067698
simon.radcliffe@libertygts.comSimon joined Liberty GTS in February 2019 as a dedicated M&A claims counsel and oversees the GTS claims practice for the EMEA and APAC regions.
Simon qualified as a solicitor in 2008. He started his career at the international law firm CMS before moving to Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in 2013 where he was a Senior Associate in the insurance team and specialised in assisting insurers to investigate and assess policy claims across a range of business lines. During his time in private practice, Simon developed a particular focus on handling high-value M&A claims and built up strong relationships with the key stakeholders involved in this space. He has extensive London market experience and undertook secondments at two leading Lloyd’s syndicates before joining the GTS team.

Lauren Gilbert
Global Operations Manager

Lauren Gilbert — Global Operations Manager
+44 (0)7474 580498
lauren.gilbert@libertygts.comLauren joined Liberty GTS (where she originally worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore) in August 2016 after working for Strutt and Parker LLP as a Group Accountant. She is Part-Qualified ACA and qualified MAAT. Previously Lauren spent 5 years working at St Martins Property Corporation as a Group and Property Accountant responsible for a portfolio of London based properties.

Aoife Cox
Operations Assistant

Aoife Cox — Operations Assistant
+44 (0)7483 073031
aoife.cox@libertygts.comAoife joined Liberty GTS in May 2019 and works as an operations assistant for the M&A team. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Aoife graduated from University College Dublin in 2018 with a BBL Bachelor of Business and Law. As part of her degree, Aoife spent a term studying at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Nidia Harris
Operations Assistant

Nidia Harris — Operations Assistant
+1 (212) 208-2830
nidia.harris@libertygts.comNidia joined Liberty GTS in September 2019 and works as an Operations Assistant for the M&A team. Prior to joining Liberty GTS, Nidia worked as an Underwriting Assistant II for the Global Financial Risk team. She has been in Liberty Mutual Insurance Company for one year. She has been in the insurance industry for 25+ years.

Anne Goulter
Executive Assistant to Rowan Bamford

Anne Goulter — Executive Assistant to Rowan Bamford
+44 (0)7483 074819
anne.goulter@libertygts.comAnne has previously worked for the Corporation of Lloyd's and various Lloyd's syndicates before joining GTS in December 2018.

Mark Sexton
Finance Manager

Mark Sexton — Finance Manager
+44 7867 432871
mark.sexton@libertygts.comMark is the Finance Manager for Liberty GTS. Before joining GTS in March 2019, Mark spent 4 years working for Liberty Specialty Markets (“LSM”), most recently as a Senior Manager on LSM’s major finance transformation project and previously Head of Financial Reporting for LSM’s Commercial business.
Mark has a First Class degree in Business Studies from the University of Brighton, is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (“FCCA”) and has 13 years’ experience of financial reporting and finance transformation in the London and Bermuda insurance markets.

Hannah Wood
Head of Marketing

Hannah Wood — Head of Marketing
+44 (0)7748 158758
hannah.wood@libertygts.comHannah joined Liberty GTS in September 2018 and is responsible for all aspects of the group’s marketing efforts. She joined Liberty GTS from Ironshore, a subsidiary of Liberty, where she managed the marketing initiatives for the group’s international platform, which included coordinating efforts across 13 different countries.
Hannah has a Master of Science in International Marketing from King’s College London. She also holds a BA in Communications and Business from Southern Methodist University.