Angus Rodger

Partner

• arodger@steptoe.com
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99 Gresham Street
London, EC2V 7NG
TEL: +44 20 7367 8048
FAX: +44 20 7367 8001

Angus Rodger is a partner in the London office of Steptoe & Johnson and represents and counsels insurers, reinsurers, brokers and financial institutions in insurance disputes and non-contentious matters.

He is identified as a leading individual by the Chambers UK and UK Legal 500 for Insurance & Reinsurance which state that he is “regarded as ‘top notch’ by clients and peers alike” and “respected for both contentious and non-contentious insurance”. He is also ranked as a leading individual in UK Chambers directory for Insurance Claims and is listed in Euromoney’s Expert Guide to the World’s Best Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers.

Many of his clients have sought to resolve disputes by negotiation, and he has successfully dealt with numerous high value matters in this manner. He also exercises advocacy rights in front of the English higher courts and appears in insurance-related national and international arbitrations. Key litigation in which he has acted includes Winterthur v Merrill Lynch [2007] 2 All ER Comm 846, Dow v Novoklav [1998] 1 Lloyd’s Rep 306, Sword-Daniels v Pitel [1994] 4 All ER 385, and Napier v Kershaw [1993] AC 713.

He has drafted and negotiated all types of policy wordings, has acted in several significant ART transactions (such as BAE Systems’ US$3.77 billion FRIP), and has advised on a range of regulatory issues.

Angus is the author and contributing author respectively of two leading texts on insurance and reinsurance law, EC Insurance Law (Longman) and Reinsurance Claims Handling (Witherby), as well as Informa’s insurance and reinsurance law courses. He has lectured on private international law at King’s College, London, and is a frequent contributor to industry journals and conferences.

Noteworthy

• Euromoney Expert Guide (2007)

Select News & Events

• Pharmaceutical Sector Burdened, Say Angus Rodger and Todd Corey
• Insurance Practice Expansion Eyed
• Angus Rodger Chairs Falconbury's Reinsurance Contract Wordings and Disputes conference, London, June 5, 2008
• Angus Rodger Chairs Session at Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA's) Annual Conference in Century City, April 28, 2008
• A discussion of London & Bermuda Arbitrations, February 29, 2008
• Developments in Reinsurance Arbitrations: What Works and What Does Not in the US, Bermuda, and the UK, February 8, 2008, (A Steptoe-sponsored event)
  Reinsurance Seminar
• The European Commission report on business insurance: what happens next?, November 13, 2007

Publications

• FSA's Discussion Paper on Transparency, Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest in the Commercial Insurance Market
  April 2008
• London faces up to new countdown over market
  December 7, 2007, Insurance Day
• EC explains transparency meaning for practitioners
  November 19, 2007, Insurance Day
• Arguing the case for the extension of the UK FSCS
  October 12, 2007, Insurance Day
• EU antitrust report: European Commission report on the business insurance sector
  September 28, 2007, Insurance Day
• Coverage Following Insurance Workshop, Brussels
  July 5, 2007, Insurance Day and Business Insurance Europe
• Briefing Paper : US Asbestos Liabilities
  June 2007
• London Insurance/Reinsurance Practice Brochure
  April 28, 2006

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Professional Affiliations

• Inter Pacific Bar Association, Insurance Chapter, Vice Chairman
• British Insurance Law Association
• International Bar Association