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Louise High

Louise is an associate director working across aviation, marine and insurance matters, based in the London office. She specialises in reinsurance and insurance litigation and commercial disputes as well as contentious and non-contentious matters working primarily on complex, high value and multi-jurisdictional disputes. Louise acts for insurers and reinsurers as well as financial institutions in the UK and European market. Her main area of expertise is within the aviation and aerospace industry acting on coverage disputes, maintenance agreements and leasing agreements. She regularly deals with matters including foreign jurisdictions, foreign law, policy disputes and contractual disputes. She has experience of litigation stretching from county courts to the Court of Appeal and has managed high value arbitrations in London with elements of domestic and international law. Louise has also acted for a large multinational corporation in the criminal courts in relation to the Dangerous Goods Regulations and carriage by air. · Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

EnglandAviation, Marine

About

Associate Director in the London office of Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP specialising in reinsurance and insurance litigation, commercial disputes and aviation & aerospace matters. She acts for insurers, reinsurers and financial institutions on complex, high-value, multi-jurisdictional disputes, has experience from county courts to the Court of Appeal and has managed high-value arbitrations; she has also acted in criminal proceedings relating to the Dangerous Goods Regulations and carriage by air.

Practice areas

AviationMarineInsurance & ReinsuranceCommercial LitigationArbitration

Office

Expertise

Aviation & AerospaceReinsuranceInsurance LitigationCoverage DisputesLeasing and Maintenance AgreementsHigh-value, Multi-jurisdictional DisputesFinancial InstitutionsDangerous Goods Regulations / Carriage by Air

Education

  • LLB, University of Westminster (transfer to Sydney University) — 2:1 (2002)
  • Inns of Court School of Law — Bar Vocational Course, Very Competent (2003)

Admissions

  • Called to the Bar (2003)