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Clive O’Connell, a partner in Goldberg Segalla’s London office, has over 30 years of experience in the areas of insurance and reinsurance law. Clive has represented clients in some of the largest reinsurance disputes and transactions in recent years, including a number of disputes involving sums in excess of $100 million and multijurisdictional issues. He has acted for clients in disputes in a variety of forums including the Commercial Court and arbitration in England, the federal and state courts and arbitration in the United States, the Commercial Court and arbitration in France, as well as other jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Jamaica, Switzerland, Sweden, and Hong Kong. He has been involved in every aspect of run-off and exit strategies for reinsurers and insurers. Clive has a particular focus on esoteric complex risk transfer mechanisms and his recent work includes acting for various entities in relation to complex, insurance-linked security (ILS) transactions and disputes. He is a Board Member and General Counsel of the International Insurance Society as well as the U.K. country chair for DRI (Defense Research Institute) International.