Matt Deaville

Matt is a partner in Kennedys’ London office.

He represents some of the market’s largest multinational insurers and their insured professionals, defending complex and high-value claims. Matt defends a variety of professionals with a particular focus on architects, brokers, energy management consultants, financial advisors, loss adjusters, solicitors, surveyors and IT professionals. He also regularly handles high-value and complex subrogated recovery and property claims, often where insureds are high net worth individuals.

Matt advises insurers on policy coverage and acts in coverage disputes involving issues such as notification, aggregation and dishonesty.

Matt has particular experience in dealing with multi-party and group litigation matters. At the start of his career Matt worked on the MMR Vaccine Litigation (one of the largest group actions of its time) and is currently defending different firms of solicitors in claims where there are more than 50 claimants in each claim.

He also has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution, expert determination and mediation. Matt has specific expertise in creating and managing electronic document management systems and e-disclosure systems.

Matt regularly contributes to industry publications, and lectures on civil litigation issues, professional negligence matters and subrogated recoveries. He is also involved in advocating the use of the professional negligence adjudication scheme.

He is a member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL), British Institute of International and Comparative Law and Chartered Insurance Institute.