Maria Ross is a corporate finance lawyer based in London. She has practised for over 20 years exclusively in the insurance sector.

Maria’s corporate experience includes mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and restructuring, portfolio transfers, demutualisations, flotations and intra-group reorganisations. In addition to transactional work, Maria advises many clients on a day-to-day basis on regulatory issues. This ranges from new authorisations, ongoing business regulation, solvency issues, product compliance (including misselling, distribution arrangements and outsourcing). Maria spent one year on secondment to a major UK insurance company.

Maria is ranked personally as “Tier 1” for non-contentious work, Chambers and Partners UK regards Maria as “a current luminary of the sector”. Peers and clients alike regard her as “good at identifying and representing her clients' interests and very pleasant to work across from”. She is described as “a pleasure to work with” by Legal 500. She was named by The Lawyer magazine in its “Hot 100” in 2011.