Meet Lockton's Real Estate Team
Meet the Real Estate Team
Harry Blakelock
Partner
United Kingdom
London
Harry heads the UK Transactional Risks Practice having joined Lockton in January 2014. Before joining Lockton, he worked for a large M&A underwriter in both the US and the UK. Today, he advises clients on a wide range of transactions across multiple jurisdictions and sectors specialising in Warranty & Indemnity Insurance and other transactional risk related insurance products.
Neo Combarro
Partner
United Kingdom
Neo leads the Lockton PECAP division and draws on 20 years of transactional and financial services expertise when tailoring insurance to his clients’ needs. He advises clients on Transactional and Contingent insurance, Professional Lines insurance, and Structured and Alternative Risks Transfer solutions. His experience includes structuring large soft capital solutions for financial institutions and accessing international markets in North America,
Bermuda, Europe and Asia. Neo speaks Spanish.
George Apperly
Vice President
United Kingdom
George joined the UK Transactional Risks Practice at Lockton in January 2015. Before joining Lockton, he helped start the Transactional Risks practice at another broking firm in London. Today, he advises clients across Real Estate, Private Equity, Corporates, Infrastructure and Secondaries investors helping them utilise insurance products to protect their transactions, operations and assets.
Iza Gnieciecka
Vice President
United Kingdom
Iza joined Lockton in July 2021 from Eversheds Sutherland London where she was responsible for building a global corporate reorganisations practice and legal project management function. Before that she worked as a corporate reorganisation lawyer in the London and Warsaw offices of Baker & McKenzie, specialising in the healthcare and life science sector. Iza is a qualified Polish barrister, and she advises clients on a wide range of transactions, notably in Germany and CEE but also cross-border ones.
Rachel Williamson
Vice President
United Kingdom
Rachel joined Lockton in October 2022 as Vice President in the London Office. Prior to joining Lockton Rachel worked at WTW and spent 10 years in their Transactional Risks team with a focus on Real Estate transactions across Europe and US cross-border transactions having spent time placing W&I/R&W policies in New York.
Somers Brewin
Vice President
United Kingdom
Somers joined Lockton in 2022 from Herbert Smith Freehills where he worked as a corporate lawyer specialising in the real estate sector
and advised clients on a range of corporate real estate transactions (including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and structured investments). During his time at Herbert Smith Freehills, Somers spent six months in the energy team in their Singapore office and was also
seconded to the Blackstone Real Estate team in London.