Thomas Miles

Senior Associate | London, United Kingdom
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Thomas is a senior associate in Kennedys’ London office. He qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales in 2017 and is a member of our financial & political risk group.

Thomas’ practice focuses on advising company and Lloyd’s market insurers on transactional liability, financial lines and political risk coverage matters.

Thomas is regularly instructed in relation to high value, international and/or complex claims across a spectrum of insurance policies, including warranty and indemnity, title, contingent liability, financial institutions, directors’ and officers’, professional liability, crime, trade credit and political violence policies. 

Thomas has an international practice advising insurers on English law and acting as co-coordinating counsel where policies are governed by other laws or jurisdictions. He has particular experience in the US, Israel, Germany, Eastern Europe, the Scandinavian jurisdictions, Latin America and the Middle East.

Thomas has experience advising insurers on policy wordings and has advised on insurers in coverage litigation both in the English Courts and in Arbitration proceedings.

Thomas is a member of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers (FOIL).

Work highlights

  • Advising insurers on a number of breach of warranty claims against a buy-side warranty and indemnity insurance policy arising out of the sale of a large telecommunications company alleging losses in excess of GBP 50 million resulting from complex claims of breach of IP, licencing and IT system warranties.
  • Advising buyer-side excess fundamental warranty insurers in relation to an alleged breach of a Target insolvency warranty in a claim with a total valuation in excess of EUR 300m. Claim involved aspects of German and Austrian insolvency law.
  • Acted for insurers on a EUR 26m claim against a buyer-side warranty and indemnity policy obtained by a global gambling and on-line gaming company related to an alleged breach of a tax covenant following a decision of the Spanish Tax Authority regarding the interpretation of how Spanish gambling taxes are to be calculated.
  • Acting for London Market reinsurers on a EUR 100m claim for cover under a combined financial institutions, directors’ and officers’ and crime policy by a warehousing subsidiary of a Greek bank for losses associated with a EUR 200m tobacco fraud.
  • Acting London Market insurers on coverage for a claim against a D&O policy by directors facing multiple US securities class actions across two years of account.

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