About

Ian Keith is an experienced legal indemnity underwriter, having been underwriting international title risks since 2006.

Ian was one of the founders of DUAL Asset and has been integral in growing the business from a start-up company in 2013 to its current position as the leading international legal indemnity provider.

Phil is one of the founders and the Chief Underwriting Officer of DUAL Asset.

A solicitor, the founder and former Chief Executive Officer of First Title Insurance plc and a Senior Vice President of the First American Corporation.

Phillip has created successful legal indemnities businesses in the UK and Ireland, Central and Eastern Europe, Turkey and Western Europe. He managed First American’s Australia/New Zealand operations from Sydney for a few years in the mid 2000s.

Now that Phil has stopped playing, he watches rugby. He is also an untalented but enthusiastic junior football coach. He sings and plays guitar with his rock n roll band Upside & owns Penn Street Promotions, an independent record label with Andy Hillier.

Andrew is a Chartered Surveyor with over 25 years’ experience in the property industry who has applied his property and business experience to a wide variety of entrepreneurial companies.

His first professional property consultancy in the golf course market has been followed by several ventures in property development, consultancy, IT and renewable energy.

In 2013 he co-founded DUAL Asset Underwriting which has rapidly become the leading global insurer for legal indemnities. His property expertise and connections bring a unique combination to this exciting insurance business. As well as being passionate about property and creating deals, Andrew enjoys golf and supporting Watford FC.

Natalie Leversedge is an experienced Operations Manager, having been involved in the start-up of two companies since 2008.

Natalie was one of the founding members of DUAL Asset and has played a vital role in building the business up since its start in 2013. Natalie was responsible for putting in place the systems and processes which have allowed the company to grow at a rapid rate. In 2016 Natalie joined both the management team and the Board of the company. Since then she has continued to play an important part in the growth of the business and in particular in developing the claims/IS processes and helping to drive the growth of the international business.

Kate is an experienced commercial underwriter and manager of DAU’s executor and inheritance team.

Kate was responsible for developing a comprehensive inheritance product which includes missing beneficiary, missing will and will dispute covers amongst 13 other risks. It is the only product of its kind in the market.

Kate also specialises in insuring contentious probate issues where the distribution is being held up because of a known dispute or issue. DUAL’s policies can be an alternative to going to court and have been the solution for the aggrieved party in numerous PI claim cases, where mistakes have been made in will drafting.

Kate has 20 years’ experience in legal indemnities and her knowledge and experience in both real estate and probate matters are a great asset to the DAU team.

Kelly has been underwriting legal indemnity risks since 2005 when she first entered the market and she joined DUAL Asset Underwriting in 2014 as a Senior Underwriter with a predominant responsibility for UK risks.

Since then she has been heavily involved in underwriting and growing DUAL Asset Underwriting’s global title to share and real estate offering across the UK and Europe. Kelly works closely with both our M&A Real Estate clients and has recently underwritten a €2bn title to share and real estate deal whilst still taking a keen interest in English restrictive covenant risks.

Kelly is ACII qualified and a Chartered Insurer and was awarded the Crawford Prize in 2013 for her completion of the ACII with the best result nationally.

Fergus has extensive experience underwriting real estate title, share title, legal indemnity and real estate transactional liability risk throughout the UK, Ireland, continental Europe and internationally. He has a particular interest in French and Spanish real estate and emerging markets.

Fergus is flexible and commercially minded with a strong reputation for helping clients complete transactions quickly and securely.

Kirstin entered the legal indemnities market straight from law school and has been underwriting high net worth commercial and residential defective title policies for Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. This involves a detailed knowledge of commercial and residential property law and keeping up to date with case law and legislative changes. She then went on to be a Customer Relations Manager at Millar & Bryce (Scotland’s premier provider of legal searching) before returning to her love of underwriting as a Senior Underwriter at DUAL Asset Underwriting in 2016.

Since joining the team, Kirstin’s specialisms have grown very much internationally as well as into the corporate sphere with DUAL Asset Underwriting’s global title to share and real estate offering. Kirstin works very closely with our M&A and Real Estate clients on matters great and small and from around the world to ensure deals happen.

After his Laurea Specialistica in Giurisprudenza in Trieste, Massimo worked as trainee lawyer and assistant at the European Parliament in a fully German speaking office.

 In 2012 he started his career in Insurance, working in a leading broker firm in Milan, where he gained a solid experience in managing the insurance portfolio of public entities, utilities, power and energy companies as well as fulfilling various business development activities.

 Massimo joined DUAL in June 2017, he is responsible for the Italian market and specializes in continental Europe risks, with a focus on CEE and Germany.

 He is contributes his legal and insurance experience, together with his languages skills to the DUAL team and their clients.

Adam Studied Law at Durham University, before moving to London where he worked as a legal indemnity underwriter for five years, specialising in complex risks, large portfolios and rights to light.

Since then, Adam has spent the last three years working as a legal indemnity broker, finding solutions for a wide range of international transactions, including some of the largest in Europe.

Chris is an Australian qualified solicitor who was admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia in 2012. Following admission, Chris worked in the Real Estate team at Hall & Wilcox Lawyers in Melbourne until July 2018. Chris has acted for fund managers, listed and unlisted REITs, superannuation funds, utility companies and private and public investors and developers. Chris’ key areas of practice included property due diligence, sales and acquisitions, commercial and retail leasing, development agreements and construction contracts.

Chris joined DUAL Asset in October 2018 after relocating to London. His experience practising as a solicitor for over 6 years and advising clients in relation to a broad range of risks underwritten by DUAL will assist Chris in quickly becoming an independent and pragmatic underwriter.

Jess studied Law at University of Cumbria before moving to London to continue her studies in Legal Practice. Jess started her career in underwriting in 2016, before joining DUAL in April 2018.

Jess primarily considers more complex legal indemnity risks and rights to light, with a particular interest in restrictive covenants.

Sarah studied an LLB at undergraduate and continued on to study law at postgraduate level, giving her an LLM. Her knowledge in UK law has enabled her to have firm analytical skills which are ideal for spotting risks and claims in legal indemnities.

Sarah started her career in DUAL Asset Underwriting in 2017, having worked in a conveyancing and probate solicitors. Her understanding of the UK residential, commercial and probate sector conjoins with DUAL Asset Underwritings area of focus.

As a bilingual French native Sarah assists DUAL’s growing French market, whilst working alongside lawyers and brokers. Sarah is one of the key members setting up the DUAL Charity Committee, whose focus is to promote development globally in line with the success of DUAL.

Edward started his career in underwriting in 2017 and has worked in a wide range of Commercial Risks in England and Wales, specialising in restrictive covenants, mines and minerals and lack of easement policies.

Edward holds a Business Management degree from Newcastle University and this has helped him to develop strong financial and analytical abilities, as well as key commercial awareness skills.

After graduating, Edward spent four months in Canada as a ski instructor, however returned to London to begin a career in insurance. Outside of work he has a passion for rugby, skiing and golf.

Megan studied Law with European Legal Systems (LLB) at the University of East Anglia, with a year abroad at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands.

Having partaken in various legal work internships within the property and probate sectors, Megan has been able to develop the knowledge and skills necessary.

Her experiences travelling, studying and various other diverse job roles have enabled her to become a skilled communicator and listener, with the ability to focus on attention to detail, whilst completing tasks to a high level and in an efficient manner.

Carolyn joined DUAL Asset in January 2015 as an Administrator. Her role and knowledge of the business has grown with the company and although she is still involved in administrative duties, she is also an Underwriting Assistant.

Grace began her career in insurance with DUAL Corporate Risks in 2011. Grace very quickly progressed through various PA positions working with the global board including the CEO.

Identified for her organisational and interpersonal skills Grace was hired by DUAL Asset in 2016 to be PA to Phil Oldcorn while also working as an underwriting assistant to the wider team. Grace mainly deals with client events, diary management, travel and drafting and issuing policies.

Tim studied economics and graduated with a Diploma in International studies, spending time abroad working in France as a language assistant. He then set up a maths tutoring business alongside pursuing a career in golf, gaining significant experience playing at an elite amateur level.

With a mathematical background and drawing on experience gained from running his own maths business, he is excited to bring his potential to the team and begin his career at DUAL Asset as an Underwriting Assistant.

Melanie is an experienced Executive Assistant With over 10 years experience in assisting directors with organising diaries, travel, expenses and managing offices. Her background lies with Event Planning and Management.

Previously Melanie implemented the first UK Government Grant Scheme in the Renewable Energy Sector.

Melanie brings to DUAL extensive organisational skills, team support and dedication.