PRACTICE

International Insurance Regulatory

Overview

In today's evolving regulatory and technology-dominated global business environment, insurance and financial services companies operating in the United States and abroad navigate an increasingly dynamic compliance regime. Collaborating with the firm’s insurance, tax, cyber, and International practice groups, the International Insurance Regulatory Team helps insurance and reinsurance companies, captive insurers, insurance agents, brokers and wholesalers, broker/dealers, financial institutions, and investment funds manage these challenges.

  • Full Spectrum of Business Transactions

    Like traditional large law firms, we regularly assist clients in the full spectrum of business transactions and related company matters, a large portion of which involves mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, banking and credit, employment, regulatory, corporate governance and board advisory, intellectual property, and financial restructuring and reorganization, among others.

  • Leveraging Technology

    Our Corporate team leverages cutting edge technology in all aspects of practice and our diverse all-partner teams focus on what matters most to our clients and stakeholders, delivering outcomes through shared values of strength, diversity, and collaboration.

  • Forging Close Partnerships

    We believe in forging close partnerships with our clients to better understand their business operations, enabling us to provide more effective counsel and to deliver exceptional value during pivotal moments that often shape profoundly the trajectory and success of our clients’ businesses.

  • Effective Low-Leverage Platform

    Our unique low-leverage platform is not only more cost-effective, it allows us to focus on fewer, targeted engagements than our peers at traditional, elite law firms. This model allows us to get closer to our clients and to know their businesses, preferences, and cadence, and to ultimately meet our clients where they are.

Capabilities

We provide a unique focus on life and annuities, health, P&C, extended warranty, rep and warranty, data privacy and cybersecurity, D&O, title, travel, parametric, maritime, and political risk insurance with particular emphasis on issues related to Latin America and Asia. U.S., international and cross-border representative insurance matters include insurance company formation and authorization, insurance M&A transactions, sale of policy portfolios, structuring run-off transactions, captive insurance company formation, policy contract drafting and coverage analysis, fronting/reinsurance transactions, insurance agency formation, and intermediary licensing. In addition, we leverage this expertise in our work relative to high net worth trust and estate planning, digital marketing, and insurtech activities.

We also assist in development of offshore private placement life insurance and annuities products, formation of insurance-dedicated funds in Bermuda and other offshore jurisdictions, and compliance with foreign country and U.S. state insurance, securities, tax, and data privacy laws and regulations implicated in the distribution, cross border and international sale of insurance and investment products to non-U.S. residents.

In connection with the offer and sale of offshore insurance products, we provide counsel on the insurance provisions of the financial services chapter of the USMCA (the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement; f/k/a the North American Free Trade Agreement), and various U.S. free trade agreements (FTAs), and coordinate compliance with sanctions and anti-corruption laws and regulations including in connection with OFAC, the FCPA and the USA Patriot Act and foreign country anti-money laundering laws.