Director's liabilities how risky is it to be a director?

Bronwen Horn is the Head of Management Liability, Financial Institutions and Regulated FinTech at Hiscox UK. She has specialised in providing Directors’ and Officers’ liability insurance cover to business leaders for over twenty years. Her company focuses on supporting the management of UK-based companies in a wide variety of sectors, from start-ups to larger listed companies. Bronwen can share insights on how liability arises, the types of claims she sees and also how directors can reduce the personal risk they are exposed to.

Dr Susan Hawley is Executive Director of Spotlight on Corruption, a charity that monitors the UK's enforcement of its laws on corruption and money laundering, and has 20 years of experience of researching and campaigning on UK enforcement. She is also co-author of the report "Power without Responsibility: the state of senior executive accountability for economic crime in the UK today."

Janhavi Dadarkar holds a portfolio of NED positions and serves as an IoD course leader.

She has over two decades of experience in advising corporates and entrepreneurs.

After starting as a lawyer in top City of London firms, she turned to corporate and government affairs as Equity Partner in an India focused advisory firm which she helped build, restructure and exit. She is a recognised expert and frequent speaker on governance and cross-border transactions.

Natasha is a Partner with extensive experience of litigating in the High Court and acting for clients in high-value, complex disputes. She has a focus on corporate disputes, including unfair prejudice petitions, post-transaction disputes and a wide range of other disputes with a corporate nexus. Her clients include FTSE 100 companies, private equity firms, giants in the retail and consumer sector and high net worth individuals. Natasha also works closely with Addleshaw Goddard's corporate team to provide front-end risk management advice before and during transactions.

Nichola is a Partner in our Global Investigations team. She specialises in advising financial institutions, corporates, directors and senior management on financial and corporate crime issues. Key areas involve advising on and carrying out investigations and connected criminal and regulatory proceedings relating to corruption, directors' disqualification, sanctions, money laundering, terrorist financing, extradition, information security and fraud issues.

Seema Kennedy was a Government Minister under Theresa May’s Premiership, serving as Immigration Minister and Public Health Minister. Before that she was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister between 2017 and 2019, responsible for relations between MPs and Downing Street during the Brexit negotiations.
Kennedy has been Executive Director of Fair Civil Justice since June 2022, where she has led the advocacy campaign around predatory litigation and unregulated litigation funding inside government circles and in the UK business community.