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Harbour Underwriting, Rocco Pirozzolo and Macella Wan all ranked in Chambers and Partners’ Litigation Support Guide 2026

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Harbour Underwriting and Rocco Pirozzolo are ranked in Band 1 for the fourth successive year, and Macella Wan retains her ranking in Band 2 Chambers and Partners remains the benchmark by which excellence in litigation underwriting is measured, with its rankings carrying significant weight across the legal profession and the industries that support it. This […]

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Harbour Underwriting top ranked in Legal 500’s first Disputes Services guide

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Harbour Underwriting has been ranked in Tier 1 in the Legal 500 Disputes Services guide 2026 for Litigation Insurance: Underwriters. In its editorial commentary, the Legal 500 describes Harbour Underwriting as “a leading provider of dispute insurance, both in the UK and internationally”, highlighting the firm’s “personal service, efficiency and industry knowledge”. The guide mentions […]

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Rocco Pirozzolo named as one of Lawdragon’s 100 Global Leaders in Litigation Finance 2026

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Lawdragon’s seventh global litigation finance guide honours what it calls “the best in the world at assessing the potential of attaining a successful outcome in a dispute and monetising it”. We are delighted to announce that Rocco Pirozzolo, our managing director and underwriting director, has been named as one of Lawdragon’s 100 Global Leaders in Litigation Finance for […]

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Rocco Pirozzolo interviewed by Insurance Business UK on how insurers assess litigation risk

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Harbour Underwriting’s managing director and underwriting director, Rocco Pirozzolo, was recently interviewed by Insurance Business UK on how underwriters assess commercial cases and the challenges of doing so at an early stage of a dispute. The piece, titled “Underwriting the unknown”, explores the tension between the legal and underwriting thresholds when assessing whether a case […]

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Rocco Pirozzolo attends Lady Chief Justice’s lecture on unjust enrichment and the law of restitution

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Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill, Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales, delivered a thought-provoking lecture at Queens’ College Cambridge on one of private law’s most contested questions: is there a unifying theory of unjust enrichment and restitution? Rocco Pirozzolo attended and reports on a talk that offered a fresh perspective on that question. The Lady […]

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If funding costs deserve recovery, so do adverse costs insurance premiums

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The Civil Justice Council’s recommendation that third party funding costs should be recoverable in exceptional circumstances raises an important question: if that principle is accepted, why should adverse costs insurance premiums be treated any differently? In this article, Rocco Pirozzolo suggests that these funding costs and premiums should be considered within the same framework. A […]

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