Re-sume - Recruitment moves.

(From Reinsurance)

Five appointments to the Council of Lloyd's have been made following the Council elections, which closed on 20 January 2006.

Further to a ballot of the working members of the Society, Ewen Gilmour, chief executive of Chaucer Syndicates, and Graham White, chairman of CBS Private Capital, have been elected as working members. They replace John Coldman, chairman of Benfield, and David Shipley, chief executive of MAP Capital, whose terms of office expire on 31 January 2006. The appointments are for a three-year term commencing 1 February 2006. David Foreman, chief underwriting officer at Wellington, also stood in the election.

Kapil Dhir has joined Holman Fenwick & Willan from Ince & Co as a consultant specialising in corporate and regulatory insurance work.

Mr Dhir's client base ranges from small brokers to large international insurers and multinational companies utilising insurance solutions. His experience ranges from the establishment of schemes of arrangement, domestic and cross-border portfolio transfers, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and similar arrangements, establishing insurance companies and dealing with all finance-related issues.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP has announced that Mary Lopatto has become a partner in the insurance and reinsurance practice. Ms Lopatto is chairman of the AIDA US Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS-US). Prior to joining Chadbourne, Ms Lopatto was a partner at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae LLP, and recently completed her tenure as managing partner of its Washington, DC office.

Ms Lopatto has over 20 years of insurance and reinsurance experience. She has particular expertise in handling international reinsurance disputes, especially arbitrations subject to Bermuda arbitration law. She has arbitrated disputes relating to allocation of environmental claims; insolvency and run-off matters; MGA and broker negligence; life reinsurance; variable annuity products; financial reinsurance; surety bonds; and reinsurance accounting. Ms Lopatto lectures and publishes frequently on reinsurance and dispute resolution.