General Experience
Pollyanna is a partner in the corporate group in London. She specialises in advising insurance companies and unusually, advises both life and general insurers on the many aspects of their business. These include business transfers, attributions of inherited estates, mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, demutualisations and joint ventures. She has been extensively involved in Solvency II projects for both capital management purposes and business preparation.

Pollyanna covers the development of new products (including health trusts and financial reinsurance) for insurers, reinsurers and other financial institutions. She also advises corporates on the regulatory position of their insurance and risk management programmes in addition advising governments on the establishment and running of captives and protected cell companies. She has considerable experience in working with discretionary mutual, warranty providers, intermediaries (and other service providers) covering all regulatory aspects of their business as well as their distribution and marketing arrangements.

Background
Pollyanna joined Simmons & Simmons as a corporate partner in 2012. She has over 20 years experience working with the insurance industry, in private practice, and has been a partner for more than 12 years, joining Simmons & Simmons from another leading law firm. Pollyanna is editor of the Butterworths Financial Regulation Services and sits on the board of the PLC Financial Services for whom she writes a bi-monthly column, sharing her views on industry developments.

Pollyanna is named as a Legal Expert for corporate/M&A and insurance in Legal Experts 2011 and is recognised as “‘outstanding in her field’, and has a ‘great wealth of experience’” in the recent Legal 500 and as “responsive, very knowledgeable, commercially aware and sensitive to her clients’ needs” in the Legal 500 2010, both for Insurance: corporate and regulatory.