With a sharp focus on managing all aspects of risk in today’s fast-moving business environment, insurance is a highly complex area – and our member firms offer some of the most comprehensive expertise for all types of players in this critical industry across Europe.
Our clients include many of the world’s leading insurers as well as reinsurers, intermediaries and an array of other businesses which intersect with insurance and risk-related issues. For these clients, we offer a powerful combination of regulatory, governance, transactional and disputes-focused expertise, to meet the unique needs of the industry.
Among the many issues on which we advise are policy wording and product development, group structuring, corporate and board advice, M&A activity (including joint ventures and co-operations), restructuring, investments and asset management, fintechs and insurtechs, bancassurance, coverage and liability advice, subrogation, contractual obligations, distribution, reinsurance, run-off management and transactions, national and cross-border portfolio transfers, cyber risks, anti-trust and competition, intellectual property, data protection and privacy, IT and other technologies, among others.
We also have significant expertise supporting clients on all manner of claims management and litigation issues (whether in court or through mediation or arbitration) including industrial risks and product liability, professional indemnity, D&O, W&I, cyber, financial and insolvency disputes, class actions and medical malpractice disciplinary proceedings before national authorities, among many others.
In addition, we bring to bear extensive experience in navigating the ever-increasing compliance burdens facing the industry, offering some of the sector’s leading regulatory experts. We have represented clients in the face of significant scrutiny from leading insurance market regulators across Europe and worldwide, as well as in relation to complex disputes or litigation matters which often involve multiple jurisdictions around the world.
