Profile
Position
Philip Hill has over 20 years' experience dealing with a wide range of commercial, corporate, financial services and banking disputes and regulatory issues. He has extensive experience handling complex, multiparty and frequently cross-border disputes in the courts and in arbitration.
Particular areas of expertise include professional negligence and fraud, advising claimants and defendants on complex professional negligence disputes; IT disputes and issues relating to online gaming; and Insurance. Philip regularly acts for policyholders on significant coverage disputes, including in the financial services, oil and gas, energy and infrastructure sectors.
Philip also advises on non-contentious aspects of risk management. This includes advising professional services firms as well as drafting and reviewing insurance programmes and wordings, including advising on regulatory issues (Basel II/III compliance).
Philip co-heads Clifford Chance's contentious insurance group, which is rated Tier 1 for policyholder claims by the Legal 500.
Career
Joined Clifford Chance 1989
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1991
Partner since 1999
Education
St Edmund Hall, Oxford (BA, Jurisprudence) 1987
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Very few teams know the insurance litigation sector as well as Clifford Chance. They combine superb legal knowledge and great strategic thinking. They very often get a successful settlement for their clients.’
‘Christopher Ingham is very clever and astute. He knows exactly how best to position his clients’ case.’
‘Outstanding levels of commitment to the clients' interests, backed by industry-leading expertise in the field.’
‘Philip Hill is an incredibly cerebral but commercially-minded lawyer who always seems to see around corners. Julian Acratopolo is incisive and fights tooth and nail for his client. Balit Rai is tenacious, charming and leaves no stone unturned when it comes to preparing a case for trial.’
‘Extremely responsive, commercially astute, technically excellent, strategic and practical. Large team, well run and very organised. Excellent depth with strong senior associate bench.’
‘Philip Hill and Baljit Rae are insurance and reinsurance specialists. They navigate very complex issues with ease, and you can be confident they have thought deeply through every angle before coming up with a well-thought-out strategy.'
'Lindsay Bickerton is very strong in support of the broader disputes team. An excellent communicator, straight talking and calm and unflustered in her approach, even when the going is tough.' 'Guy Burkitt and Murray Tabeart - both are astute, commercial, excellent communicators and clear in their delivery of strategic advice to clients. Both are also a pleasure to deal with.'