Paul Bickley
Senior Legal Counsel, Insurance, HSBC Bank
Paul Bickley is Senior Legal Counsel for HSBC Insurance in the UK, supporting its global partnerships and its UK Bancassurance business, which includes the manufacture of life / protection and distribution of general insurance under the HSBC, first direct and M&S Bank brands.
He acts as a local subject matter expert, leads global matters with input from HSBC’s worldwide legal community and advises on a range of matters from customer-facing materials, product structure, legacy issues, distribution arrangements to regulatory aspects.
Before taking up a career as an in-house insurance lawyer, Paul trained and qualified as a tax lawyer at Linklaters in London. He has worked for AXA UK and RSA prior to joining HSBC in 2014, acting on distribution, reinsurance and outsourcing arrangements and dealing with all ancillary issues across all classes of general insurance in the UK and global markets. Paul’s experience includes leading insurer responses to the 2011 OFT Market Study into Private Healthcare and the 2012 Competition Commission Market Investigation into Private Motor Insurance.