Insurance & Reinsurance Transactional

Drawing on the Firm's unparalleled experience with insurance and insurance-related products, business operations, and associated accounting principles, JORDEN BURT's Insurance & Reinsurance Transactional Practice Team delivers cost-effective issue identification and resolution for successful completion of transactions. Regular collaboration with attorneys in our other Practice Teams ensures an informed and creative approach for each matter.

The Firm's insurance transactions services include counseling with respect to:

• Entity formation, licensing, and capitalization
• Reorganizations, recapitalizations, and liquidations
• Acquisitions and divestitures, including purchases and sales of blocks of business
• Mutual insurance company conversions
• Joint venture arrangements

Our reinsurance transactions services include counseling with respect to:

• Structuring, negotiating, and drafting all forms of reinsurance agreements in the life/health and property/casualty areas, including quota share, excess of loss, facultative, and assumption reinsurance agreements
• Loss portfolio transfers, sales of reinsurance blocks of business, purchases and sales of reinsurance underwriting management companies, and formation and operation of reinsurance auditing and run-off companies
• Matters involving intermediaries and other industry participants, such as managing general agency, reinsurance intermediary, and general underwriter agreements
• Captive arrangements and other forms of alternative risk transfer
• Regulatory matters specific to reinsurance, including risk transfer analysis
• Run-offs and commutations
• Rights and obligations of reinsurers and liquidators in the insolvency and pre-insolvency contexts

Members of Jorden Burt's Insurance & Reinsurance Transactional Practice Team also serve as special counsel to state insurance regulators in connection with their review of transactions and other matters involving insurers and reinsurers, like those described above. Similarly, our lawyers' focus and expertise enable us to deliver targeted counseling services in even the largest of transactions, such as due diligence reviews of complex areas of insurance and reinsurance company operations in connection with mergers and acquisitions.