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;
• competition law cases;
• 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.
• Acting for Samsung Electronics in UK court proceedings brought by Nokia for damages arising out of an alleged cartel under investigation by the EU commission
• Successfully represented a large Spanish multinational in securing the dismissal of injunctions brought against them in the High Courts in England and Mumbai.
• 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. 
• Textron, Exxon, Goodrich and others in litigation in the High Court in London and Edinburgh challenging efforts by solvent London Market companies to use so-called "solvent schemes of arrangement" to curtail their coverage obligations.
• For Lloyd’s and Equitas in connection with the R&R plan for the Lloyd’s market.
• A large series of cases arising from the collapse of the Weavers underwriting pool: reinsurance, trusts, agency.

Honors and Rankings

• Chambers UK
  • Insurance - mainly policyholders (2008-2013)
• Super Lawyers - London
  • Commercial Litigation (2013)
• Legal Experts UK (2010)
• PLC Which Lawyer?
  • Dispute Resolution, England (2008-2012)
  • Insurance, England (2010)
• Legal 500 UK
  • International Arbitration (2012)
  • Insurance litigation for policyholders (2008-2012)
  • Commercial Litigation (2010-2012)
  • 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.

• "Court of Appeal Confirms Application of "All Sums" Principle to Mesothelioma Claims Under Employers' Liability Policies," Covington E-Alert (2/19/2013), Co-Author
• "UK to Introduce “Class Actions” in Antitrust Litigation," Covington E-Alert (1/30/2013), Co-Author
• "UK Government Consults on Reform of Private Antitrust Claims," Covington E-Alert (6/28/2012), Co-Author