Insurance: Non-contentious
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Willkie’s insurance and reinsurance practice group is an interdisciplinary team of lawyers with significant experience in insurance and reinsurance transactions, regulation, and litigation. In addition to leading U.S. and European lawyers with insurance industry experience, our practice group includes highly sophisticated lawyers with substantial experience in corporate, litigation, tax and other practice areas.
Our clients include domestic and international insurance and reinsurance companies, insurance brokers, policyholders, private equity firms, hedge funds, and other insurance industry investors. We represent clients in high-profile mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities transactions, institutional private placements, financings, and joint ventures. Our experienced lawyers also handle insurance-specific financial transactions, including bulk reinsurance arrangements, group restructurings, demutualizations, renewal rights transactions, and commutations. We routinely advise clients on licensing, investments, permissible activities, and solvency matters, and we represent clients before insurance regulators in the United States and internationally.
Chambers Review
Willkie Farr & Gallagher has strong Lloyd's market expertise, as well as experience handling more niche transactions in the reinsurance market, including longevity reinsurance. It advises leading insurance companies on complex transactional matters, including M&A, Part VII transfers and capital raising, with additional expertise in the structuring of insurance-linked securities. The firm demonstrates a ready command of both UK and US insurance markets, as well as matters governed by Bermudian law.
Work Highlights
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher advised Aon on its USD13.4 billion acquisition of NFP.
Strengths
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"The Willkie Farr team have very strong knowledge in insurance-linked securities transactions and are extremely helpful in supporting this work."
"Willkie Farr are very responsive and work hard to hit deadlines."
"Willkie's team of legal experts demonstrate a profound depth of knowledge and they have an impressive ability to navigate intricate legal landscapes with ease."
"The Willkie Farr team have very strong knowledge in insurance-linked securities transactions and are extremely helpful in supporting this work."
"Willkie Farr are very responsive and work hard to hit deadlines."
"Willkie's team of legal experts demonstrate a profound depth of knowledge and they have an impressive ability to navigate intricate legal landscapes with ease."
Notable Practitioners
Andrew Tromans offers considerable expertise in Part VII transfers and corporate restructurings as part of his transactional insurance practice. He is also frequently sought after to handle complex M&A for clients across the sector.
Nicholas Bugler adeptly handles a broad range of transactional matters, including M&A, longevity reinsurance and insurance-linked securities. He is frequently instructed by leading insurers, reinsurers and Lloyd's syndicates.
Joseph Ferraro is the London head of insurance at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and represents a strong choice for clients seeking transactional advice from the UK, the USA and Bermuda. He expertly assists with large M&A deals as well as corporate restructuring and insurance-related capital markets work.
Kirsty Maclean is recognised for her insurance expertise, particularly on longevity reinsurance transactions, in which she regularly acts for leading insurers and reinsurers.
"Kirsty is very responsive, commercial and pragmatic."
"Kirsty balances her technical ability with good commercial awareness and is clearly passionate about the work she does."
"Kirsty is very hands-on, very speedy and gets into the details."
Melanie James is noted for her work on insurance M&A and reinsurance transactions. She is also regularly sought out by clients to provide regulatory advice.
"She has been consistently gone above and beyond to address time sensitive and critical matters, and to find commercial solutions to challenging problems."
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