Walkers’ ILS Group features a group of dedicated, multi-jurisdictional lawyers based in the firm’s Cayman Islands and Dublin offices. The group advises clients on the legal and practical aspects of trading, financing and securitising risk involving Cayman Islands and Irish entities, including cash and synthetic catastrophe bonds, captive insurers, sidecars and life settlement transactions. At Walkers we understand the volatile nature of the insurance industry and our team is dedicated to helping our clients receive the best return on their risk through the provision of quality, commercially rooted advice.
The ILS Group leverages on Walkers’ market leading reputation in structured finance and capital markets, alongside the firm’s unmatched industry experience from acting for many of the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance companies. The members of the Walkers' ILS Group have advised on the vast majority of the Cat bond transactions effected in Ireland to-date and our specialist Dublin-based taxation team builds efficient Irish tax structures based on a wealth of cross-border experience in the capital markets and structured products space.
Walkers’ ILS Group is also able to assist clients with the licensing aspects of risk transfer transactions, with support from the firm’s Regulatory team, who have close working relationships with the Insurance Supervision Division of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority and the Central Bank of Ireland.