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OVERVIEW

Our multidisciplinary insurance and reinsurance team has deep industry knowledge and offers Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, and Irish legal and regulatory advice on the full scope of insurance matters, including alternative risk transfer and insurance linked securities. Our team has first-hand insurance experience, which translates into pragmatic, commercial legal advice. Our clients range from insurers and policyholders to cedants, reinsurers, and retrocessionaires.

CAPABILITIES

Proud of our individually tailored approach to client service and our practical industry expertise, we work with businesses across the insurance and reinsurance industry delivering practical solutions to problems and opportunities.

Focused on building long-term relationships, we act as our clients’ trusted legal advisor for all their legal and regulatory insurance matters. We also provide contentious and non-contentious insurance law advice to policyholders, cedants, reinsurers, and retrocessionaires.

Our full suite of legal services includes:

  • Legal and regulatory advice in relation to the formation, structuring, licensing, ongoing operation, and regulatory compliance of all types of regulated insurance vehicles
  • Alternative risk transfer structures, including catastrophe bonds, sidecars, collateralised insurers and transformers, life settlement transactions, premium financing, longevity swaps, structured product transactions and insurance linked securities 
  • Insurtech and fintech development, formation, and licensing
  • Financing, collateral arrangements and alternative capital solutions 
  • New product advisory and contract wording advice 
  • Mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and portfolio transfers, run-offs, and winding-ups 
  • General advisory, regulatory and compliance work (including AML/ATF, Solvency II and PIPA/GDPR) 
  • Independent director services and corporate governance advisory 
  • Listing Services
  • Claims coverage advice, dispute resolution and regulatory investigations

What people say about our Insurance solutions

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‘Solid all-round team with good breadth of knowledge and excellent bench strength.’

Legal 500

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‘Legal and commercial knowledge, practical/easy to digest commercial advice.’

Legal 500

Key Contacts

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Sarah Demerling
Sarah Demerling

Sarah Demerling

Partner

Bermuda

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+1 441 242 1525

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+1 441 525 1525

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Email Sarah Demerling
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Noeleen Ruddy
Noeleen-Ruddy

Noeleen Ruddy

Partner

Ireland

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+353 1 470 6650

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+353 86 028 2340

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Email Noeleen Ruddy
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