KENNEDYS LAW - Key Persons
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- Partner, Avocat Au Barreau De Bruxelles - Brussels
Job Titles:
- Partner
- Partner - Auckland
Kim is a partner in Kennedys' Auckland office and brings more than 20 years' experience to her practice in insurance litigation. Her focus is professional indemnity, public/product liability, directors' and officers' insurance and statutory liability, as well as property and fire and general insurance. Kim acts for most insurers writing business locally and also receives instructions from Lloyd's-based underwriters and global insurers writing business in New Zealand.
Admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1988 following graduation from the University of Auckland, Kim joined Kennedys as a partner in 2011, after 12 years as a litigation partner at a commercial law firm in Auckland.
She has extensive experience with mediation and alternative dispute resolution and has been an Associate Member of the Arbitration and Mediators Institute of New Zealand for many years. Kim is a founding member of the New Zealand Insurance Law Association and is currently the secretary of the New Zealand Chapter of the Australian Professional Indemnity Group.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Consultant - Auckland
- Consultant in Kennedys' Auckland
Mark is a consultant in Kennedys' Auckland office. Mark graduated from the University of Otago and was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1988.
Mark has extensive insurance litigation experience, including mediations and alternative dispute resolution. He is an experienced advocate and has represented clients in professional tribunals and in Courts at all levels from the District to the Supreme Court.
Mark worked in Kennedys' London office for three years before returning to New Zealand and being a founding partner of Kennedys' Auckland office in 2000.
Mark specialises in professional indemnity, directors and officers liability, public/product liability, energy, fine art and specie, statutory liability and fire and general insurance. In the professional indemnity sphere he regularly acts for solicitors, accountants, insurance brokers, financial intermediaries, real estate agents, architects, valuers, surveyors, engineers and other construction professionals. He has acted for defendants in numerous large multi-party "leaky building" proceedings, and for insurers and reinsurers on issues and proceedings arising out of the Christchurch earthquakes, and more recently, the Port Hills fires. He also acts for insurers on subrogated recovery proceedings.
Mark also provides coverage and policy advice, and advises a broad range of commercial and insurance clients including international and Lloyds based insurers.
He is a member of the New Zealand Insurance Law Association and served on the National Committee from 1998 to 2013.
Nasser Al Shamli, Advocates & Legal Consultants in association with Kennedys Office 2/A Salam Gate Salam Complex Dohat Al Adab Street Madinat Sultan Qaboos PO Box 132 PC 115 Muscat Sultanate of Oman T: +968 2270 3650 F: +968 2284 2713
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- Legal Director ( Advokat, H ) - Copenhagen