Edite Ligere

Edite Ligere’s practice focuses on the regulation of artificial intelligence, global financial regulation, banking, insurance, human rights, consumer protection, charity law, data protection, machine learning and cyber security.

Selected Representations (publicly disclosed)
• AIG Inc. in the development of the first global insurance capital standard (“ICS”).
• MetLife Inc. in the development of the activities based approach to the identification and mitigation of systemic risk in the insurance sector and the development of the ICS.
• Abu Dhabi Investment Council in various acquisitions.
• Scotiabank in various acquisitions.
• AmTrust in its $218.7 million acquisition of ANV Holding B.V.

Selected Publications
• ‘A “sui generis” interpretation of the rule of law?’ Politeia, May 2021
• ‘Kryptonite or Crypto Right?‘, Politeia, April 2021
• ‘Liberty, Law and Lockdown’, Politeia, January 2020
• Insurance: can systemic risk get any more systemic post Covid – 19? chapter in the OECD’s New Approaches to Economic Challenges ‘The Financial System’

Selected Speaking Engagements
• ‘Going Green – Consistent with Economic Recovery?’ Politeia, June 2021
• ‘EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ webinar, The European Institute of Columbia University, the European Legal Studies Center of Columbia University and the European American Chamber of Commerce in New York with British Consul General in New York and HM Trade Commissioner for North America Anthony Phillipson, Barney Reynolds, Partner and Member of the Executive Committee of Shearman & Sterling, Katharina Pistor, Professor of Comparative Law, Georges Ugeux, Chairman of Galileo Global Advisors Moderator and Adam Tooze, Professor of History Columbia University and Director of the European institute, 19 March 2021, U.K.
• ‘Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare with Robert Kellar QC & Edite Ligere’ Seminar, Leigh Day, London, July 2020
• In Conversation With…Robert Kellar QC & Edite Ligere’, Artificial Intelligence; Real Headache? Seminar, DWF, London, March 2020
• Brexit: The Final Curtain. What are the Legal Implications for the UK and the EU? Contemporary History and Institutions of the Mediterranean Series, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Bologna (date to be confirmed)
• Guest Professor in International Law and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Europe; Bologna, November 2019

Appointments
• Politeia Think Tank, Director.
• General Council of the Bar of England and Wales (Elected member).
• Bar Council Law Reform Committee.
• Galileo Global Group, New York, NY, U.S.A., Senior Advisor.
• Philanthropy Board of the Institute of Cancer Research.
• Chairman of the Windsor Benefit Trust (for the advancement of music and the arts.)
• Member of various international and U.K. pro bono legal initiatives.
• Rights of audience in the courts of England and Wales.