Jodie Adoki

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Jodie Adoki is an English qualified Legal Director in the Professional , Financial and Disputes section of Clyde & Co’s Dispute Resolution Group in the Middle East, the leading dispute resolution team in the UAE (and ranked Bank 1 by Legal 500).  

Jodie trained in the Oman and London offices of a large UK commercial law firm between 2009 and 2012 before initially joining Clyde & Co in Dubai in 2012.  Jodie worked as a lawyer in Clyde & Co’s Dubai office for over six years, advising insurance companies on both coverage and defence matters.  Jodie then worked as a Senior Claims Specialist in London in the Financial Lines team of a top ranking international insurance firm for 18 months from 2018 to 2020 before rejoining Clyde & Co in October 2020.

Jodie’s day to day legal expertise is in advising on complex coverage matters often involving multiple technical considerations and across a variety of business lines with a particular focus on Financial Lines, Property, Casualty, and Medical Malpractice. Jodie’s experience includes high value matters across the GCC nations, particularly the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Experience

• Advising on policy cover and defending negligence claims against a range of professional services firms including accountants, audits, consultants, law firms and insurance brokers.
• Advising on policy cover and advising on/ defending commercial fraud and white collar crime litigation including employee fraud.
• Advising insurance companies on a wide range of first and third party commercial and financial institution insurance policy disputes and litigation including Professional Indemnity, D&O, Banker’s Blanket Bond, Electronic & Computer Crime, Life Insurance mis-selling claims, PAR/BI.
• Advising London market reinsurers and local insurance companies in respect of property and business interruption claims arising out of the global Covid-19 pandemic in the UAE and wider GCC.
• Advising medical professionals, hospitals and clinics in the GCC on both contentious medical malpractice claims before the regulatory authorities and in criminal and civil litigation.
• Advising re/ insurers on policy coverage for large-scale property and business interruption losses regarding high profile fires and other property related losses in Dubai and the wider GCC.
• Advising re/insurers on policy coverage regarding a variety of high value losses in respect of construction, energy and trade credit across the GCC.