Pollyanna Deane
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Work Department
Corporate finance.
Position
Partner and head of corporate insurance and reinsurance. Advises insurers on all aspects of non-contentious work, including M&A, reorganisations, new products, transfers, financing and regulation.
Career
Trained Slaughter and May, qualified 1991, assistant 1991-96; assistant Herbert Smith 1996-2001; partner Barlow Lyde & Gilbert 2001-06; partner Berwin Leighton Paisner 2006 to date. Publications: general editor of Butterworth’s ‘Financial Regulation Service’; board member for PLC Financial Services.
Languages
French, Italian.
Education
Bristol Grammar School; Christ Church, Oxford University (1988 MA jurisprudence); College of Law (1990).
Leisure
Travel, theatre, writing murder mysteries and pantomimes.
Practice Areas
Corporate finance; Financial services; Insurance (non-contentious)