Experience
Alexandra specialises in insurance coverage, professional indemnity, construction and energy disputes. She regularly acts for insurers, reinsurers and insureds on policy coverage, claims handling, defence strategy and subrogated recoveries across a broad range of policy lines, including Professional Indemnity, Construction All Risks (CAR), Property Damage and Business Interruption.
She advises clients throughout the lifecycle of a dispute, from policy analysis and early claims strategy through to litigation, arbitration, adjudication and mediation. Her practice focuses on high-value, multi-party disputes involving construction professionals, contractors, developers and their insurers.
Prior to relocating to Dubai in 2025, Alexandra developed extensive London market experience defending and pursuing negligence claims involving architects, engineers and other construction professionals. She continues to advise on complex liability and insurance issues arising from major construction and energy projects throughout the Middle East and the UK.
Alexandra also delivers seminars and training sessions to insurers and industry professionals on construction liability and insurance coverage issues.
Recent Cases
- Acting for insurers in a coverage dispute before the Bahrain courts arising from damage occurring on a major construction project.
- Advising insurers and reinsurers across MENA and the UK on coverage issues under CAR, Property Damage, and Professional Indemnity policies, including claims arising from construction defects, fire losses and machinery breakdowns.
- Acting for a cedant in the UAE in a substantial reinsurance dispute concerning extended warranty policies for motor vehicles.
- Acting for insurers in relation to UAE proceedings arising from the structural collapse at a hotel and subsequent claims against the insured and insurers.
- Acting for insurers in pursuing subrogated recoveries following warehouse fires, machinery breakdown losses at energy facilities and damage to commercial goods during transportation.
- Defending Technology and Construction Court proceedings concerning a £20 million post-Grenfell cladding and fire safety dispute involving residential tower blocks, multiple professional firms and their insurers.
- Defending and pursuing recovery claims arising from a £5 million dispute concerning defects in a major sewage pipeline serving wastewater treatment facilities.
- Advising on high value claims relating to fire safety, structural integrity and water ingress defects affecting multiple residential and commercial developments in London.