Ian Enright
Partner
Telephone: +61 2 9947 6202
ian_enright@hdy.com.au

Practice Area

• Climate Change
• Insurance

Ian Enright

Ian has been a financial services lawyer for over 25 years, including six years in the London markets. He has a heavily based offshore practise and represents UK and US financial institutions in Australia. Ian specialises in general insurance, general reinsurance, life insurance, life reinsurance, funds management and securities. 

Ian’s practise includes corporate establishment, regulatory authorisation and conditions, mergers and acquisitions, product design and development, agency and distribution and large and complex claims particularly in general and life reinsurance.

Ian is the author of the monograph Australian Insurance Law and Regulation and the Anglo-Australian text Professional Indemnity Insurance Law, the second edition of which was awarded the 2008 British Insurance Law Association Book Prize as “the most notable contribution to literature in the field of law as it affects insurance”.

Ian is deeply involved in the insurance industry in Australia. He is the honorary solicitor and on the conference committee for Financial Services Accountants Association. Ian is a regular speaker at the industry forums, consulted by the regulators on developments in the law and changes in regulation as well as being an active director of financial services entities.

Ian also designed, developed and led the teaching for the University of New South Wales insurance course in the Master of Laws Degree in Australia and is an honorary Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney.

Ian is lauded for his “incredibly incisive mind that cuts through issues with clear ease” (Asia Pacific Legal 500 2009).