Harbour Underwriting and Rocco Pirozzolo are ranked in Band 1 for the third successive year, and Macella Wan achieves her first ranking in the guide, in Band 2
Chambers and Partners is one of the leading ranking guides and serves as a benchmark of excellence for the legal profession and the industries that support it, including litigation underwriting.
This is the third year that Chambers has issued a Litigation Support guide, and we are delighted that Harbour Underwriting and Rocco Pirozzolo have once again been ranked in Band 1 for litigation underwriting as a leading firm and as a leading individual, respectively.
We are also delighted that Macella Wan has been ranked by Chambers for the first time this year, in Band 2.
Testimonials for Rocco in the guide include:
“Rocco is commercial, responsive, practical and unfalteringly reasonable to deal with. He is very good at making sure you stay aligned. My first port of call.”
“Rocco is a stalwart in the industry; he is a gentleman and a man of his word. He gets on with the job and doesn’t complain even if it isn’t easy. At every turn he was incredibly professional.”
“Rocco is fantastic. He is detail-oriented but not risk-averse: an underwriter with a lot of experience who is keen to write risks and is very collaborative with the market.”
Testimonials about Macella include:
“Macella Wan is brilliant. She takes on some quite complex cases and understands meticulously the key points of the risks that she underwrites and has a good assessment of what points to be raising.”
“Macella Wan is lovely. She is supportive and does things quickly to meet clients’ needs. She also knows so much about the market, and it always feels like you are working together.”
About Harbour Underwriting, the guide says:
“Harbour Underwriting always seem to understand what we want and frequently ask questions, which demonstrates a thoughtful analysis of the issues.”
“Harbour Underwriting are brilliant. They are a really good team and incredibly responsive, accurate and detailed. They are the top players in the market.”
“They are a highly experienced underwriting team with a global appetite.”
Earning these rankings from Chambers and Partners is a great honour. We are again grateful to our clients and their lawyers and brokers, as well as all the referees who generously supported our entries into the guide.
You can read about the rankings here and here.
