Zaneta Sedilekova

Full Profile

Zaneta advises insurers and other firm’s clients on climate risk and disclosures, emerging biodiversity and supply chain risks and their wider implications for businesses and wider sectors. Her contentious practice focuses on complex insurance and reinsurance disputes with multijurisdictional aspects.

Zaneta combines her legal expertise with technical knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, which she developed during her time in the firm’s innovation hub Data Lab, to deliver forward-looking advice to the firm’s clients in the area of wider digital transformation.

Zaneta has developed and leads the firm’s engagement with The Chancery Lane Project, a global pro bono initiative that brings lawyers together to draft climate-conscious clauses focused on enabling voluntary decarbonisation of the corporate sector. She is often invited to speak about her work with The Chancery Lane Project at internal and external events. She also works with the firm’s overseas offices to get them involved in the Project’s work. 

Zaneta has co-authored a report for The Law Society called “Climate change risks – the future of law as we know it?”, which discusses how physical, transition and liability risks will reshape the demands placed on lawyers, focusing on the problems around attribution, jurisdiction and accountability.

Before joining Clyde & Co Zaneta completed her LLB at the University of Glasgow and LLM in International Law with a focus on climate change and environmental law at the University of Cambridge, Downing College.

Experience

• Advising a client on biosecurity risk of disease transfer and other liability risks arising from the broader context of nature restoration
• Advising on various aspects of insurability of forest carbon offsets on voluntary offset markets
• Advising an insurer client on cost reserves and claim payouts under a complex reinsurance treaty
• Monitoring and advising on the implications of the developments in the overseas criminal and civil proceeding underpinning the insured event
• Making a successful application for a default judgment for an EU-based client against an overseas defendant in a debt dispute
• On the basis of metadata, identifying a fraudulent piece of evidence submitted by the defendant’s counsel, which enabled the client to build a new case based on fraud
• Developing an aviation automation tool focused on the assessment of delay and cancellation claims, which has a potential to significantly reduce fee-earners’ time and clients’ costs involved in assessment of these claims