Charlotte Hanson

Charlotte is an Associate in our Financial Services Regulation team.

Charlotte is an experienced corporate insurance and insurance litigation lawyer with legal experience in the UK and Australia. Charlotte has primarily worked with large international insurers, reinsurers, and corporate clients.

Charlotte has experience in a variety of insurer defence matters such as D&O liability, property damage, casualty claims, and professional indemnity claims. She has acted as coverage counsel for insurers in multi-million-dollar D&O disputes and class actions, as well as providing coverage advice to both insurers and policyholders.

As part of her regulatory and corporate insurance background, Charlotte has provided non-contentious corporate governance advice and drafting support to foreign and domestic companies setting up business in the UK and Australia and maintains corporate secretariat services. In addition, she has been involved in preparing various PRA and FCA applications, drafting compliance policy documents and advising insurers and insurance intermediaries on regulatory compliance issues and principles.

Charlotte also frequently works on corporate transactions undertaking legal and regulatory due diligence, drafting necessary applications and advising on outsourcing agreements post-acquisition, specifically for regulated companies.

Capital is one of our key UK partners. The team’s regulatory expertise and InsurTech knowledge is market-leading, which is very important to us! Charlotte and the team took the time to understand Open’s goal, ensured speedy project execution and offered pragmatic advice at all stages.”

Sam Hoppe, Chief of Staff, Open UK