General Insurance Article - Liberty Speciality Markets appoints senior underwriter

 The team provides financial institutions, private equity funds, multinational corporates and high net worth individuals with insurance for a number of areas including regulatory capital relief, orphan funds and mergers and acquisitions.

 Fiona is a qualified solicitor and joins from insurance broker Willis, where she was Deputy Head of Structured Finance for four years. Prior to that, Fiona was a Managing Associate at law firm Linklaters in London for seven years which included secondments to a hedge fund manager and Linklaters’s Hong Kong office. Fiona specialised in tax law, advising clients on corporate tax transactions, tax based structured finance deals and fund structuring.

 Reporting to Richard Winborn, Underwriting Manager for Strategic Capital Products, Fiona will work with the team to develop products with a particular focus on financial institutions, the aim of which is to ease the regulatory capital burden on the financial institution concerned.

 Richard Winborn said: “Fiona’s expertise in structured finance will add considerable value to our team and overall product offering. This appointment highlights our ambitions in this new and innovative area of insurance and will further strengthen the relationships we already have in place. We are excited to welcome Fiona to the team.”