Colin V Croly B.Comm., LL.B. (Cape), LL.M (Lond)

Acting for many of the leading insurance and reinsurance companies and syndicates, Colin Croly has advised for over 30 years on all areas of insurance, concentrating on reinsurance including contract wording and dispute resolution and issues relating to asbestos pollution and ART not only in London but in conjunction with overseas lawyers.

Placed as one of the top 20 reinsurance lawyers in the world by Euromoney’s Best of the Best survey Colin has again been nominated by Who’s Who Legal, the international Who’s Who of business lawyers as the Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyer of the Year 2009, the fifth year running.   He is also recommended in the Legal 500 as a leading individual in reinsurance and Chambers & Partners identifies him as “basically Mr Reinsurance”.

Colin is Secretary General of AIDA (Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances), Chairman of AIDA Europe and Chairman of AIDA’s Reinsurance Working Party.  An active member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC) Colin was a member of the Board until 2008, being the only non-US member.  He is an Adjunct Member of the International Association of Claims Professionals.   A former government appointee to the IBRC (Insurance Brokers Registration Council) he has held numerous other offices.  He lectures regularly at Zurich and Hamburg Universities and throughout the world and is also joint editor of Reinsurance Practice and the Law (Informa) and an author of many published articles on reinsurance.