Harbour Underwriting Ltd

Managing Director and Underwriting Director

Rocco is the Managing Director and Underwriting Director of Harbour Underwriting Limited.

He is a solicitor who has spent over two decades developing and providing insurance for a wide variety of legal disputes brought around the world.

A leading figure in the dispute resolution community since 2003, Rocco has served on the forums and committees of the Civil Justice Council, a statutory body responsible for overseeing and modernising the civil justice system, and has been the Chair of The Association of British Insurers’ Legal Expenses Committee.

Rocco is the general editor of The Law Society’s Litigation Funding Handbook and the author of several of its chapters, including that on dispute insurance. He is the co-author of the chapter on legal expenses insurance in the practitioners’ textbook Friston on Costs.

Rocco was instructed to act as an expert by The Law Society in its intervention in a landmark case heard before the Supreme Court in Coventry v Lawrence [2015]and is included in Lawdragon’s 2026 list of 100 Global Leaders in Litigation Finance.