B.A. (Law, Political Studies and International Relations) - University of the Witwatersrand

Ll.B. - University of the Witwatersrand

Ll.M. (Space, the final Legal Frontier: an exploration of the legal impediments to the increasing comercialisation of Outer Space) - University of the Witwatersrand

• Attorney, qualified in South Africa 2022

• Advising several large South African insurers including limiting claims exposure, policy response and managing settlement of claims linked to COVID-19 Business Interruption claims;
• Advising numerous Non-Life and Life Insurers on policy response and disputes with Insureds as to policy coverage;
• Represented numerous special risks insurers on complex claims involving considerations of highly technical nature including renewable power plants, large manufacturing facilities and ICT facilities;
• Advising a large insurer on innovation and tech-enabled products;
• Counseling numerous South African and African corporates as a member of the Cyber Breach Response Team;
• Leading the expansion of NRF's knowledge base on disruptive technologies in insurance;
• Leading NRF's expansion into Cyber-Insurance advisory inclusive of internal knowledge development and external market awareness;
• Serving as a member on the firms working group on Alternative Legal Services and Legal Process Outsourcing.
• Assisting with Caster Semenya's European Court of Human Rights challenge of the World Athletics regulations that prevent her from competing;
• Advising an Australian investment fund which opened operations in Kenya;
• Advising a multinational mining company facing accusations of human rights abuses in Tanzania;
• Assisting a large South African Bank while conducting a multi-billion rand refinancing agreement with a major ICT provider.

Thought Pieces:

• "The lid has been lifted on the Pandora's box of text-to-image AIs and will never be shut again" Daily Maverick 24-01-2023
• "Africa deserves affordable energy and LNG is the first step" Business Live 11-02-2021
• "Africa's Accelerating FinTech Revolution" Tech Financials 25-11-2020
• "True transformation of corporate structures needs a plurality of views, skills and ideas" Business Live 06-11-2020
• "Covid-19 is dragging companies into the future of remote work" Daily Maverick 17-04-2020

Academic Publications

• "History of Space Law and South Africa's Space Law", Space Fostering African Societies - Developing the African Continent through Space Part 4, Southern Space Studies - Jan 2023
• "Reflections on our first year as Candidate Attorneys - and some advice for those starting out" Without Prejudice Vol. 21 No.1 - Mar 2021

Tristan often represents the firm in discussions on Insurance, Innovation and Technology having presented numerous times at events organised by the Insurance Institute of  South Africa, internally at Insurers and at certain conferences. His most recent engagements include:

• Presenting on the "Effective use of Fraud Clauses" at the Insurance Fraud and Claims Conference 2023;
• Presenting on Artifical Intelligence, what it means and how it works for the broker network of a large south african insurer;
• Discussing the "role of youth in driving and creating a more impactful and sustainable world" at the Johannesburg Caucus of One Young World;
• Co-Presenting on the role of Distributed Ledger Technology and Artifical Intelligence for the IISA

Insurance Institute of Gauteng

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