Baljit Rai
UK Guide 2025
Band 3 : Insurance: Mainly Policyholders
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About
Provided by Baljit Rai
Practice Areas
Baljit Rai has over 21 years' experience of acting in commercial litigation and arbitration disputes in relation to insurance and reinsurance matters, specialising in advising insureds on policy wordings and policy coverage issues.
Baljit also advises on non-contentious insurance issues including policy wordings (e.g. Directors and Officers, Political Risk, Trade Disruption Insurance, Political Risk and Credit Insurance) and insurance structures.
Baljit has particular specialisation in and regularly advises a number of major banks and other financial institutions on the use of credit insurance as a credit risk mitigant under the Basel Accords and the Capital Requirements Regulation.
Career
St Hilda's College, Oxford University (BA MA Jurisprudence) 1996
Joined Clifford Chance 1997
Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1999
Secondment to one of the largest reinsurers worldwide 2004
Secondment to a global bank 2009
Chambers Review
UK
Baljit Rai has considerable experience assisting banks and multinational corporations with a range of insurance disputes. She has an impressive track record of handling claims concerning credit risk and D&O liability.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Baljit really drives litigation forward; she is extremely thorough."
"Baljit is unquestionably an expert in contentious and complicated insurance coverage matters. She provides clear and strategic advice."
"Baljit really drives litigation forward; she is extremely thorough."
"Baljit is unquestionably an expert in contentious and complicated insurance coverage matters. She provides clear and strategic advice."
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