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Australia and New Zealand Teams 2017

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Australia and New Zealand Teams 2017

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Nominators spoke highly of general counsel Blair Williams, general counsel of insurance company IAG New Zealand and the legal department he leads, one source stating that Williams ‘oversees a very good experienced in-house team that he himself has built, such is the regard that Blair and his team is held in that he and his team (and not external counsel) are the first point of contact for all IAG legal matters’. In managing to balance the ‘pure legal analysis of issues with business needs’, the insurance company is indebted to Williams and his team’s ability to reach ‘good pragmatic outcomes with apparent ease’. Working closely with senior management, legal staff at IAG New Zealand are known to collaborate on key business issues which, owing to IAG’s position in the New Zealand insurance market are substantial and complex on a daily basis. In terms of the recent past, the team assisted with the acquisition of the businesses of Lumley and AMI and reacted to a changed risk profile in the market owing to the Christchurch earthquakes. The legal team entered into arrangements with The Earthquake Commission to ‘allow a more efficient process for the handover of over the cap claims arising out of the recent (and not so recent) earthquakes’ according to a nominating source, and is testament to its ability to face problems and solve them whilst maintain excellent relationships with and services to clients.

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