Austin Neal

Corporate, Insurance, Mergers, Acquisitions & Complex Reinsurance Transactions, Regulatory Compliance

Austin B. Neal is a partner and business lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP. His practice is focused primarily on corporate and transactional representation of domestic and international insurers and reinsurers, including the Corporation of Lloyd’s and various insurers and reinsurers in the London market. Austin’s experience includes representing those entities and other financial service clients in regulatory, administrative, legislative and transactional matters. He is a member of the firm’s Insurance & Reinsurance Industry Team.

Represented the Corporation of Lloyd’s and members of the U.S. and London surplus lines insurance market in the passage of legislation to address the 2008 decision of the Florida Supreme Court in Essex and managed a coordinated defense of more than 30 members of the London market in related federal court class action litigation

Obtained approval and secured licensure of the first wind-only commercial property insurer licensed in the State of Florida and negotiated the first quota share reinsurance/assumption of commercial property insurance policies from Citizens Property Insurance Corporation

Represented the British United Provident Association and its affiliates in obtaining Florida licensure of Bupa Insurance Limited and in subsequently obtaining offshore insurer exemptions for numerous Bupa companies domesticated in Latin America

Represented Main Street America Group in its redomestication to Florida and subsequent mutual holding company conversion

Florida State University College of Law

JD

Florida State University