Global law firm Clyde & Co has appointed Susana Martínez as a Partner in Madrid to strengthen the firm’s global insurance group, where she will focus on giving advice, coverage dispute and defence work in complex matter across multiple jurisdictions within EMEA and Latin America.
She brings experience within advice and litigation in respect of all types of financial lines products and claims.
She has also advised insurance and reinsurance companies on corporate and regulatory matters as well as insurance policy wording drafting, including localisation to market according to legal framework and best local practices.
Martínez joins from Kennedys where she was Head of Financial Lines and Cyber for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Prior to that, she worked in an international insurance law firm in Spain and from 2011 she worked for ten years at AXA XL, where she was Financial Lines Practice Leader for EMEA and Latin America.
Martínez commented: “Clyde & Co is the pre-eminent firm for financial lines in Madrid and beyond. I’m looking forward to continuing to develop my practice and making the best use of the platform available at the firm.”
Partner Ignacio Figuerol commented: “As commerce has become increasingly globalised and interconnected, we are seeing multinational companies and their foreign directors and officers facing a much harder liability, legal and regulatory environment in many foreign jurisdictions, which in turn leads to a harder market for D&O insurers and reinsurers.
“This global exposure requires a global approach from law firms, and through Susana’s arrival we are deepening the expertise we can offer to clients wherever they need us.”
