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.