JillAllison Opell

Practice Areas

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

Career

JillAllison Opell represents insurers and insurance-related entities in all lines of business, including accident, life and health, property and casualty (including pet), surplus lines, travel, and reinsurance. JillAllison also represents private equity funds and other sponsors acquiring and divesting insurers and/or insurance-related entities. She is chair of the Insurance Practice Group, vice chair of the Business Law Department, and former co-chair of the Health Care & Life Sciences Sector’s Payor Provider Convergence Area of Focus.

JillAllison’s regulatory experience includes advising clients with respect to acquisitions, intercompany agreements and investment laws, as well as compliance, licensing, and Affordable Care Act issues. She has counselled private equity funds, insurers, reinsurers, producers and other insurance industry professionals, helping to solve complex regulatory problems, maintain regulatory compliance, obtain regulatory approvals, and develop new products. She also has a breadth of experience advising mutuals and representing all parties to a demutualization (including the regulator). Always monitoring and analyzing the latest regulatory developments, she frequently advises clients regarding the implications of state legislative updates and regulatory investigations. JillAllison has spent her career developing relationships with regulators in many jurisdictions across the country.

Industry Sector Expertise

Cannabis, Health Care & Life Sciences, Payor Provider Convergence, Providers of Health Care Services

Education

Experience

Representative Experience

-Counsel to one of the nation’s largest personal lines and commercial insurance brokers. Handled several significant roll-up deals, including the acquisition of two insurance brokerages for a combined enterprise value exceeding US$7bn.

-Represented government entity in a complicated and contentious transaction (that had been pending for over a year) with respect to the approval of a prominent insurance company’s reorganization and conversion from a mutual insurance company to a stock insurance company, as well as the ultimate acquisition of the converted entity by a sponsor. Hired by the same government entity to represent it on another sponsored demutualization.

-Acted as global insurance counsel for a multibillion-dollar private equity fund. Provided long-term strategic advice with respect to significant insurance acquisitions. Advised on all insurance M&A matters and acted as strategic counsel for portfolio insurance companies and insurance businesses.

-Acted as insurance counsel in acquisitions of MGAs and similar regulated businesses for a major private equity fund.