Sarah Xerri-Hanote was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1992 and became a partner at HMN Partners in 2011. Sarah specialises in insurance and reinsurance and, in particular, in financial lines. She also acts as monitoring counsel and defence counsel for insurance companies specialized in this field. Sarah is co-author of Lamy Assurance in charge of the chapter relating to directors & officers' liability and teaches financial lines insurance at the Insurance Institute of the Université Paris Dauphine. She has also, since the beginning of her career, had an ongoing practice in construction insurance.