A division of insurance giant Axa has promoted its general counsel to a CEO role, in a rare move for the U.K.’s in-house legal market.

Sean McGovern, who has been general counsel at AXA XL since September 2018, has been named its CEO for U.K. and Lloyd’s market, a role he had been filling on an interim basis. AXA XL is a speciality risk division of AXA and has annual revenues of more than $10 billion.