Amanda Montano

I am a dual-qualified lawyer (England & Wales and New York) with varied cross-border contentious and advisory experience in the insurance, trade finance and financial services sectors.

• Acting for international group of companies in respect of available cover pursuant to D&O insurance programme following announcement by the SFO of its investigation into various entities/individuals.
• Advising corporate in respect of D&O insurance cover for individual director following substantial losses arising from fraudulent payments.
• Advising litigation funder in respect of coverage dispute pursuant to ATE insurance taken out on behalf of thousands of claimants related to mis-selling of PPI policies.
• Acting for insured in coverage dispute pursuant to cyber policy following ransomware attack affecting multiple locations worldwide.
• Advising UK-based construction company in connection with claim pursuant to contractors all risks policy for losses suffered following controlled detonation of a WW2 bomb at construction site.
• Advising in respect of third-party claim under PI policies arising from negligent services provided by an architect’s practice, the underlying insured.
• Advising captive reinsurer in connection with construction of reinsurance agreement, particularly as to whether judgment awarded by Amsterdam Court of Appeal in favour of former employee constituted a reinsured claim.
• Acting for reinsurer in political risk coverage dispute following losses suffered as a consequence of the 2021 Zuma riots in South Africa.
• Acting for an international bank against multiple insurers in a long-running dispute relating to the discounting of bills of exchange issued in connection with agricultural commodities, the payment obligation in respect of which was insured, and culminating in LCIA arbitration.
• Advising a construction company in a dispute with structural steel subcontractor that supplied faulty materials to be used in construction of a covered market in Africa.
• Advising a trade finance fund in a dispute with multiple insurers in respect of an invoice purchasing facility with an agricultural commodity trading company for the supply of goods, the payment obligation in respect of which was insured.
• Acting for a European bank in connection with a dispute over shipment of agricultural commodities, the purchase of which had been financed by the bank, that were wrongfully released from the vessel against a letter of indemnity.
• Advising a European corporate on LCIA arbitration in connection with machinery financed via promissory notes, the payment obligation in respect of which was insured.
• Acting for policyholder in broker professional negligence claim against brokers in the High Court in connection with procurement and placement of Hull and Machinery (H&M) and Protection and Indemnity (P&I) insurance policies following total loss of the vessel off the coast of Nigeria (Specialised Vessel Services Ltd v Meridian Risk Solutions Ltd (CL-2021-000681) (Comm)).
• Acting jointly for three trade finance funds (noteholders) in a professional negligence claim following advice provided in connection with the issuance of guaranteed notes by a project financing company for the financing of an oil extraction project in South Africa.
• Acting for international bank in long-running professional negligence claim against insurance broker in connection with placement and multi-year renewals of comprehensive non-payment insurance policies containing cross-year aggregate limits of liability.