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 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.

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.

Chris 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.

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 Northern European M&A transactions.

Louise 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.

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.