Walkers' insurance team offers Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey and Irish law advice on all insurance matters on a global basis.

We provide clients with legal, regulatory, licensing and taxation advice for the establishment, structuring and ongoing operation of all forms of insurance vehicles.

Walkers advises on a broad spectrum of insurance-related matters. We have worked with some of the biggest names in the sector and have extensive first-hand experience in the following areas:

• 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.
• Financing and collateral arrangements involving such insurance undertakings together with alternative capital solutions.
• Mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and portfolio transfers, compliance and corporate governance, run-offs and winding-ups.
• General advisory and other regulatory work including advice in relation to Solvency II.
• Alternative risk transfer structures, including captives, cash and synthetic catastrophe bonds, sidecars, transformers, life settlement transactions and structured product transactions.
• Taxation advice (where required) on the establishment and operation of insurance undertakings.