Walkers has an established and experienced multi-disciplinary team of lawyers specialising in insurance matters. We pride ourselves on providing clients with market leading legal, regulatory, licensing and taxation advice for the establishment, structuring and on-going operation of all forms of insurance vehicles.
Increasing convergence by the industry with the capital markets and funds worlds is reflected in the composition of our team, which draws some of its membership from our market-leading structured products and capital markets practice as well as from our premier investment funds group. Bringing together lawyers who have a long track record servicing the world's leading insurers and reinsurers, capital markets and fund specialists means that Walkers' multi-disciplinary team is optimally placed to support the anticipated development and evolution in the insurance and reinsurance sectors.
This team is focussed on providing highly responsive, specialist legal support across a broad range of areas relating to the insurance sector, including:
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the establishment and licensing of life and non-life insurers and reinsurers, captives, intermediaries, segregated portfolio companies and on the development of various insurance products;
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financing and collateral arrangements involving such insurance undertakings together with alternative capital solutions;
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mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and portfolio transfers, compliance and corporate governance, run-offs and winding-ups;
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general advisory and other regulatory work including advice in relation to SolvencyII;
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alternative risk transfer structures including captives, cash and synthetic catastrophe bonds, sidecars, transformers, life settlement transactions and structured product transactions;
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the provision of taxation advice (where required) on the establishment and operation of insurance undertakings.
Our attorneys and the firm are consistently ranked in the first tier of leading legal directories and periodicals and the broad experience of our Insurance Group means it is well-positioned to support clients on the broad spectrum of insurance related matters from new start-ups to complex and innovative alternative risk transfer or capital arrangements.