Marian Boyle

Marian heads the UK insurance and disputes practices working closely with the firm’s established trade and export finance team, and U.S.-based disputes team, offering advice on insurance, risk management and commercial dispute resolution.

With over 20 years' experience, Marian advises banks, insurance brokers, investment funds, government agencies and corporates on commercial insurance arrangements which support structured trade, commodity and pre-export financing as well as corporate finance, energy, property, M&A and outsourcing transactions. She also drafts and interprets insurance policies and advises on the use of insurance by credit institutions and investments firms as credit risk mitigation for capital adequacy purposes under the Capital Requirements Regulation.

Marian’s contentious experience includes advising clients in relation to disputes arising from trade credit, professional negligence and transactional disputes. These disputes are often international in nature and result in large-scale, highly complex multi-party litigation and arbitrations.

Bar & Court Admissions

• Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales

Education

• University of Wales

Awards & Honors

• The Legal 500 UK, Dispute Resolution-Commercial Litigation – Recommended (2017-2021)

• Sullivan Wins Two Major Trade Finance Awards
  Press Release
  May 5, 2022
• Trade Finance: A Practitioner's Guide
  flow
  March 10, 2022
• Upholding the Finality of Arbitration Awards
  Client Alert
  February 10, 2022
• Sullivan Launches "A Practitioner's Guide to Trade and Commodity Finance," Second Edition
  Press Release
  December 14, 2021
• Sullivan & Worcester UK LLP Recognized in the 2021 Edition of The Legal 500 UK
  Press Release
  October 1, 2020
• Business Interruption – FCA Test Case
  Client Alert
  June 5, 2020
• Insurance Claims – Tips for Commercial Policyholders
  Client Alert
  May 28, 2020
• Sullivan & Worcester UK LLP Ranked in the 2020 Edition of The Legal 500 UK
  September 27, 2019
• Moving forward with Credit Insurance: Mitigating Risk in Trade Finance
  Trade Finance Global (TFG)
  September 3, 2019
• Sullivan Named Best Law Firm of the Year at Trade Finance Awards for Excellence, 2019
  Sullivan Press Release
  June 28, 2019
• Analysis: Investigating the new guidelines for CRR-compliant non-payment insurance policies
  Global Trade Review, Quoted
  June 25, 2019
• Sullivan Advises ITFA on Revised Guidelines for CRR Compliant Non-Payment Insurance Policies
  Sullivan Press Release
  June 11, 2019
• Sullivan Wins GTR ‘Best Trade Finance Law Firm’ 2019 Award
  Sullivan Press Release
  May 3, 2019
• Women in Finance 2019 – Balance for Better
  Trade Finance Global (TFG)’s Women in Finance
  March 8, 2019
• Sullivan & Worcester UK LLP Ranked in the 2019 Edition of The Legal 500 UK
  October 30, 2018
• Cladding: Insurance Implications
  Building Magazine
  October 11, 2017

Seminars & Presentations

• The Anatomy of Non-Payment Insurance Policies: What Should Policy Holders Look (and Look Out) For? 
  Trade & Export Finance Webinar (May 26, 2022)
• Claims Round Table: Industry Insights Into 2020
  ExCred Commodities: Insuring Commodity and Project Finance (September 17, 2019)
• PRA Policy Statement March 2019 : the good, the bad and the troubling
  MUFG Insurer Conference, London (June 27, 2019)
• Update on the PRA consultation paper — use of insurance and other guarantees for capital relief
  Trade Finance Breakfast Seminar (April 25, 2019)
• Policy Wording: Standardisation and the Hunt for Capital Relief
  The International Trade and Forfaiting Association, ITFA (November 27, 2018)
• Insurance and finance case law update
  (November 22, 2018)
• Insurance claims in trade and project finance projects — how to maximise your chances of recovery
  (April 26, 2018)
• Future Shape of Credit Risk Insurance Solutions
  The Aon Centre, 122 Leadenhall, London (February 22, 2018)
• Litigation or Arbitration? — The New York - v - English Law Perspective
  Pinners Hall, 105-108 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1EN (September 28, 2017)
• Relationships In and Around Letters of Credit and What to Watch Out For
  Pinners Hall 105-108 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1EN (February 23, 2017)
• Some of Those Annoying Technical Issues in Trade Finance
  Pinners Hall, 105-108 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1EN (January 26, 2017)
• Insurance Act 2015: Practical Tips for Policyholders
  Pinners Hall, 105-108 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1EN (September 29, 2016)
• “Crisis, What Crisis?” – What has the industry worried and what should the industry be worried about?
  Pinners Hall, 105-108 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1EN (July 21, 2016)