Mark Pring

Partner

Practice Description

Representative Matters

Insurance and Reinsurance

• Advising an international reinsurer in relation to reinsurance arrangements with a Dubai-based insurer in respect of financial lines and related covers.
• Acting for a major reinsurer in connection with ad hoc Bermuda arbitration proceedings between the "captive” insurer of a global accounting firm and reinsurers of professional indemnity risks.
• Representing a London market cedant regarding the presentation of Hurricane Katrina-related losses 
• Representing a major U.S. group regarding a variety of film finance-related insurance and reinsurance disputes.
• Representing the D&O insurer of an IT training company in relation to a significant reinsurance dispute.
• Representing a U.S. cedant in English Commercial Court proceedings relating to the liability programme of an international retail group.
• Advising a leading London market reinsurer in relation to aggregation and other issues arising out of the settlement of a property damage/business interruption claim.
• Representing the D&O insurer of certain directors of a major London-based property developer, in relation to a dispute arising out of collapsed lease negotiations.
• Advising a major U.S. group in relation to rights of creditors regarding a proposed scheme for the "Part VII” transfer of general insurance business under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 regime. 
• Advising reinsurers in relation to an aviation-related dispute and in numerous subsequent commutations regarding U.S. casualty business. 
• Advising excess layer insurers in relation to coverage issues affecting a series of "design and build” professional indemnity contracts.

Commericial Dispute and Special Investigations

• Acting for a developer in a contractual dispute (subject to DIAC arbitration rules) with a master developer regarding a high-profile real estate project in Dubai. 
• Acting for an international power group in ICC proceedings arising out of a disputed independent power project agreement. 
• Acting for a BVI-based entity in relation to LCIA proceedings arising out of a share sale agreement. 
• Pursuing an arbitration (under LCIA rules) on behalf of an oil and gas intermediary, arising from a contractual dispute with a major multinational oil company operating in Western Siberia. 

Activities and Affiliations

• Member: the Law Society; the London Solicitors Litigation Association; the British Insurance Law Association and the Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA) 
• Coordinator of the working group for, and editor of the study published by, the London Insurance Institute’s (RSG 253) on Run-Off Management and Commutations in Practice 
• Co-editor then editor of Chadbourne & Parke's Insurance and Reinsurance NewsWire 
• Speaker at numerous professional and market events, including, in September 2008, acting as co-chair of a panel discussion on "Recent Developments in International Arbitration" at the 2008 seasonal meeting of the International Law and Practice Section of the New York State Bar Association, held in Stockholm, Sweden

Publications

Mr. Pring is a regular contributor to a number of market publications, including Insurance Day, Global Reinsurance, and Sweet & Maxwell’s Insurance & Reinsurance Law Briefing.

Speeches and Events