Overview
Our practice is founded on the principle that our industry clients need and want lawyers who understand their business. The multidisciplinary lawyers in our seamlessly coordinated client-centric teams have spent all or a significant part of their professional careers working with insurance, reinsurance, and financial services industries. We have been providing legal guidance, advice, and knowledge on a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters and operational issues. Our extensive experience means that we have established strong relationships with regulators in numerous jurisdictions.
We are committed to excellence, observing rigorous service standards to ensure we deliver consistent and value-driven services to our clients, who are international and U.S. domestic insurers and reinsurers, group, single-owned, segregated onshore and offshore cell captives and their sponsors, investment banks, funds, capital market participants, insurance intermediaries, and related entities such as producers, MGAs and TPAs, insurance regulators, insurtech and fintech startups, blockchain as a service companies, digital asset companies, token sponsors, developers, broker-dealers, banks, investment managers, custody providers, accelerators, exchanges, and investors. Our lawyers are frequently cited and have been recognized and featured for their notable experience in U.S. and international publications such as Chambers, Super Lawyers, Legal 500, and The Best Lawyers in America.
We provide practical commercial advice to clients and have extensive experience in advising on the following types of matters:
- U.S. and non-U.S. regulatory advice and support for transactions
- Appearances before regulators
- Licensing
- Operational compliance, including governmental investigations and market conduct exams
- Trade compliance and trade sanctions
- New product design and policy drafting, including cannabis, cyber, and ATE
- R&W underwriting
- Registration and approval of new products
- M&A
- Reinsurance and portfolio transfers
- ART and ILS
- Financial guarantee and wraps
- Investments and asset management
- Tax advice
- Commutations
- Financial condition and solvency, including restructurings and receiverships
- Risk management
- Digital assets and tokenization
- Blockchain application and deployment