Rebekah advises insurers, reinsurers, and their insureds on complex, high-value coverage and liability disputes across a range of business lines. Her practice includes a particular focus on cyber, trade credit, and political risk, and professional liability claims.

She has extensive experience supporting clients across the Middle East on a broad spectrum of cyber-related matters, covering both contentious and non-contentious issues. Her work includes advising on policy coverage and wording, managing third-party claims and investigations, and providing guidance on data protection and privacy obligations, including breach response and regulatory notifications.

Rebekah also advises on the legal considerations surrounding ransomware payments and the associated due diligence requirements.

Rebekah regularly acts as breach response counsel, project managing multi-disciplinary response teams, including IT forensic experts, cyber extortion specialists, and PR advisers, to support clients through cyber incidents.

She has represented clients at all stages of the litigation process across the GCC and in financial free zones, including the DIFC Courts and QFC Courts. Rebekah also has experience acting in international arbitrations and mediations.

Featured experience:

• Acting as Incident Response Manager for a Kuwaiti company following a ransomware attack which encrypted all its servers and put its business entirely offline. This involved coordinating IT forensics and extortion negotiators to bring the incident under control and advising on notification obligations, legality of ransom payments in Kuwait, and potential third party litigation risk.
• Acting for insurers in a trade credit coverage dispute brought before the UAE Centre of Amicable Settlement of Disputes and all three stages of the UAE Courts
• Advising on strategy in relation to a number of complex defences, including time bar, substantive policy defences, and offsetting of debts
• Advising insurers on coverage and defence strategy in relation to a high volume of notifications filed under a professional indemnity, directors & officers, and crime insurance policy, with notifications together totalling the value of around USD $1.8 billion