Nick Atkins

Nick Atkins

Partner
London

Email [email protected]​hoganlovells.com

Phone +44 20 7296 2074

Fax +44 20 7296 2001

LanguagesEnglish

Practice groupLitigation, Arbitration, and Employment

Nick is "an exceptional lawyer who has over 30 years' experience providing first class advice to clients"

Who's Who Legal, 2018

Nick has been working on insurance and reinsurance matters since he joined the firm in 1984. He is a litigator who helps clients solve their most complex problems. Nick co-chairs our insurance disputes practice.

Over the years Nick has dealt with most types of insurance, including claims relating to directors and officers, crime policies, property damage, business interruption, products liability, public liability and employer's liability. He has also handled many professional liability claims, especially involving insurance brokers.

Nick is equally experienced in reinsurance matters and has litigated and arbitrated many of the largest reinsurance problems that have affected the market. He cut his teeth on the asbestos, pollution and health hazard claims that threatened the industry in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. This involvement with APH problems has led to him working extensively on helping clients find solutions to their legacy issues through the use of schemes of arrangement and the development of innovative techniques in relation to portfolio transfers.

Nick is very focused on resolving problems as efficiently as possible and is an advocate of the use of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms; in particular, he has considerable mediation experience, dating back to the successful mediation of a reinsurance dispute in 1996.

In addition to his client work, Nick serves as General Counsel for Hogan Lovells International LLP.

Awards and recognitions

2021

Global Leader, Recommended, Insurance & Reinsurance
Who's Who Legal

2019-2020

Thought Leaders, Insurance & Reinsurance
Who's Who Legal

2020

Insurance
Chambers UK and Chambers Global

2020

Insurance, Leading Individual
Legal 500

2020

Insurance Litigation
Client Choice Award

2018-2020

Acritas Star
Acritas Stars Independently Rated Lawyers

2018

Nick is an exceptional lawyer who has over 30 years' experience providing first class advice to clients.
Who's Who Legal

2017

Nick is praised for his excellent judgment and is considered one of the foremost insurance litigators in the country.
Who's Who Legal

2017

Nick provides an excellent service and goes beyond what is expected ... he excels in a broad range of mandates.
Legal 500

Education and admissions

Education

LL.B., The University of Sheffield, 1983

Memberships

Member, British Insurance Law Association

Member, IRLA

Member, Law Society of England

Related industries

Insurance

Representative experience

Acted for a U.S. asbestos trust in a significant reinsurance dispute.

Represented a number of Japanese insurance companies in obtaining regulatory and court approval for transfers of legacy portfolios.

Representing financial institutions in claims under crime policies.

Resolving numerous professional liability claims against insurance brokers.

Multiple representations of clients in relation to D&O coverage.

Representing an oil company regarding coverage for claims arising from an explosion.

Extensive representations of clients in construction insurance matters.

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