Expertise

Aisling Kavanagh is a partner in Matheson’s Commercial Litigation and Dispute Resolution team. Aisling is a commercial litigator specialising in insurance disputes.

Aisling manages high value, large scale complex disputes, and has acted in high-profile litigation in both the English and Irish Courts. Before joining Matheson, Aisling spent over six years as a litigator with a leading firm in London, where she acted in energy, construction and insurance disputes. Her practice includes insurance disputes, commercial and financial services dispute resolution, and arbitration. As regards her insurance disputes work, Aisling advises domestic and international clients on policy wording interpretation, complex coverage disputes, D&O claims, professional indemnity claims, including any potential third party liability, and subrogation claims. Aisling has extensive experience with alternative dispute resolution processes. She has advised in complex mediations and arbitrations, including under ICC and LCIA arbitration rules, and she has advised as regards disputes before the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman.

Aisling also provides non-contentious advice to insurers and brokers on the drafting and interpretation of insurance contracts including drafting bespoke policy wordings. She regularly provides policy analysis, including "gap" analysis as regards cover, for domestic and international companies, directors and senior executives. 

Aisling is a member of the Law Society of Ireland, the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the British Insurance Law Association. She is a lecturer on the Law Society Diploma of Insurance Law, has presented in seminars and has contributed to a number of industry publications.