Mark Kendall

Mark is a partner in our London office and leads the Global London Property and Casualty team.

He is a leading lawyer in insurance and reinsurance, whose practice incorporates policy coverage and international dispute management including arbitration.

His particular areas of focus are casualty and excess casualty, energy, renewables, construction and product liability and recall in all major sectors.

Recent work includes:

• Representing excess insurers in arbitration proceedings involving a global food company concerning food contamination issues in China and coverage under a Restaurant Contamination policy
• Acting in London arbitration proceedings for excess insurers on a coverage dispute arising from an explosion at a waste treatment facility in Idaho.
• Advising OCIP primary and excess insurers in relation to coverage following pollution incidents at refinery in USVI.
• Representing excess insurers in relation to policy response following class actions (US, Canada, Kenya and Australia) pertaining to the use of paraquat.
• Successfully defending excess insurers of a project policy in the high court in Haberdashers’ Aske’s Federation Trust Ltd & others v (1) Lakehouse Contracts Ltd & (2) Cambridge Polymer Roofing Ltd [2018]
• Advising primary insurers of a project policy in relation to German proceedings following the collapse of the construction of an underground system in Cologne and the destruction of the National Archive
• Representing the Public Liability insurers of the Bedfordshire Policy Authority in the Court of Appeal following the Yarl's Wood detention centre fire in 2002
• Defending suppliers of components to on and offshore windfarms in adjudication and arbitration proceedings.

Mark is ranked as a "leading lawyer" in Chambers Global.

He is the consulting editor of Product Recall, Liability and Insurance a Global Guide (Globe Publishing 2012)

Mark qualified in 1997 and joined DAC Beachcroft in 2018.