Roger Enock

Roger Enock is a partner in Covington & Burling’s Litigation and Policyholder Coverage practice groups.

Mr. Enock has extensive experience advising corporations, financial institutions, liquidators and individuals in a variety of judicial, arbitral and regulatory proceedings in the UK and other jurisdictions.  His experience has included:

• representing policy holders in claims against insurers;
• advising on major restructuring and insolvencies;
• internal investigations in the UK and abroad;
• international and domestic arbitrations;
• FSA investigations; and
• co-ordinating multi jurisdictional litigation.

Representative Matters

• Representing Merial in connection with all aspects of the 2007 Foot and Mouth outbreak: regulatory, fact finding, defending (and striking out) the proceedings commenced by the National Farmers Union.
• A number of ICC-London arbitrations acting for one of the major manufacturers of flu vaccine.
• Substantial insurance disputes with the London market on behalf of two of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.
• Acting for one of the world’s largest electronics manufacturers in “follow on” UK court proceedings for damages arising out of an alleged cartel under investigation by the EU commission.
• Textron in litigation in the High Court challenging efforts by solvent London Market companies to use so-called "solvent schemes of arrangement" to curtail their coverage obligations.
• A South African mobile phone company in relation to a $1.5 billion shareholder dispute in the UK, Holland and Nigeria.

Honors and Rankings

• Chambers UK
  • Insurance - mainly policyholders (2008-2012)
• Legal Experts UK (2010)
• PLC Which Lawyer?
  • Dispute Resolution, England (2008-2011)
  • Insurance, England (2010)
• Legal 500 UK
  • Insurance litigation for policyholders (2008-2011)
  • Commercial Litigation (2010-2011)
  • International Arbitration (2009-2010)
  • Product Liability - Defendant (2011)

Publications and Speeches

• Mr. Enock participated in a round table discussion hosted by In-House Lawyer in October 2008, which focused on compliance and risk management issues among other challenges faced by in-house counsel.

• "Supreme Court Deprives Expert Witnesses of Immunity From Suit," Covington E-Alert (4/1/2011), Co-Author
• "Insurance Coverage for Losses from the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami," Covington E-Alert (3/18/2011), Co-Author
• "Collective Redress - EU-style Class Actions One Step Closer?," Covington E-Alert (2/10/2011), Co-Author