Travis Luk

Travis is a Special Counsel in our Insurance & Health team and is based in the Melbourne office.

Travis is a member of our Financial Lines team in Brisbane. He predominantly acts in financial lines and professional indemnity claims in a defence and coverage capacity in Victoria and Queensland.

Travis specialises in:

• Professional Indemnity
• Directors & Officers and Class Actions
• Financial Institutions
• Management Liability
• Regulatory Investigations and Directors Defence
• Product Liability

For over 15 years, Travis has been advising domestic and London market insurers and insureds in these areas in both defence and coverage. He specialises in the financial, legal, government, medical, and construction industries with a particular focus on defence of directors & officers, solicitors/barristers, construction and mining professionals.

”My main goal is to make the process easy for my clients, to be accessible and provide exceptional service.”

He has acted in defence and a coverage monitoring capacity in class actions, coronial inquests, local government inquiries, and various investigations and prosecutions by Australia’s regulators.

After graduating, Travis worked in a global law firm in London specialising in banking and finance litigation before returning to Australia where he commenced practising exclusively in financial lines. Most recently, he has assisted insurers, directors and financial institutions navigate some of Australia’s most prominent class actions arising from the Royal Commission into Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services.

“My focus is always on excellent outcomes, achieved commercially and cost-effectively. In my 15 years of experience working with insurers, brokers and their insureds, I have learned that it’s critical to see yourself as an extension of your clients. That means driving outcomes that meet the particular needs of the client and their business and converting complex legal and commercial issues into practical resolution strategies.”

Travis holds a combined Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Arts. He is a committee member of the Australian Insurance Law Association (AILA) Victorian Chapter.