Robert Robinson
Group General Counsel, MS Amlin
Robert Robinson is the Group General Counsel of Amlin plc where he has overall responsibility for all legal matters involving the Amlin group. Amlin plc is a FTSE 250 company based in London that participates in the global reinsurance and specialty insurance sectors. The group has offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Bermuda, Singapore and the US. Until 2011 Robert also was the Head of Legal & Compliance for Amlin Underwriting Ltd, the Amlin group’s Lloyd’s managing agent. He joined Amlin in 2007 from Liberty Syndicates where he served as the first Syndicate Counsel. He joined Liberty from the Chicago-based law firm Lord Bissell & Brook where he was an equity partner and partner in charge of their London office.
Robert has extensive experience as an advocate, having acted as lead trial counsel in numerous insurance and reinsurance litigation and arbitration proceedings both in the US and abroad. He also has acted in a wide variety of non-contentious matters including: M&A and corporate finance transactions; corporate governance; commercial contract negotiations; insurance licensing and regulatory matters; sanctions, anti-corruption and competition law advice; and insurance product development.
He has been involved in various London insurance market groups including the Lloyd’s Market Association (LMA). Robert was the founder of the LMA Binding Authority Claims Group and is also a past chairman of the LMA Counsel Forum. From time to time he acts as an arbitrator in reinsurance disputes.