Adam Chylek

Partner, Head of Property, Energy & Infrastructure @Wotton Kearney

Adam is a senior partner operating across a number of key classes of business, including professional indemnity, Directors and Officers, property and ISR, and construction and contract works. Adam was the first partner appointed to Wotton + Kearney after the firm\'s inception in 2002 and is a principal adviser to many of the firm’s key clients. Adam represents one of Wotton + Kearney’s largest clients on all claims relating to the Storm Financial Ltd and Basis Capital Funds collapses, and is the principal lawyer on the firm’s appointments arising out of the Queensland Floods and Christchurch Earthquakes.Adam also runs the firm’s Valuer’s Professional Indemnity practice and acts for most of the London Underwriters and the local Australian-domiciled insurers writing this class of business. He is the exclusive legal provider to a large global US insurer on its commercial insurance placements in Australia and New Zealand and is often appointed monitoring counsel in litigated claims in the United States and throughout Asia.Adam successfully ran the seminal case of ACE Insurance Ltd v Moose Enterprise Pty Ltd [2009] NSWSC 724, which is now the leading Australian authority on choice of law and jurisdiction clauses in insurance policies.