Our team of insurance and reinsurance lawyers are widely recognized as key players in insurance and particularly reinsurance law.  The issues we deal with often require complex legal advice, including the design of incoming and outgoing reinsurance programs, the resolution of blocks of business through reinsurance transactions, and equally complex litigation and arbitration proceedings. Consequently, across the team there is substantial experience with major U.S., U.K. and international insurance and reinsurance dispute resolution procedures, across all classes of business and contexts including run-offs, schemes of arrangement and other insolvency proceedings

Our experience includes:

Insurance and Reinsurance

• Reinsurance disputes by way of litigation or arbitration  involving defense or recovery work in various jurisdictions
• Insurance and Reinsurance coverage advice on a wide range of policy types and business classes including: financial institutions, casualty, directors & officers, errors & omissions, business interruption, property, life and personal accident
• Dispute Resolution - multi-jurisdictional litigation, arbitration, mediation and other ADR experience
• Reinsurance program design and implementation
• Reinsurance contract drafting and negotiation
• Buying and selling blocks of business through reinsurance transactions
• Advice concerning Credit for Reinsurance and other regulatory requirements
• Policy interpretation advice addressing issues such as aggregation, claims co-operation and control, limitation, follow the settlements, avoidance/rescission/cancellation
• Claims recovery, subrogation, contribution, avoidance, cancellation and fraudulent claims investigation/handling experience
• Commutation drafting, review and negotiation 
• Insolvency
• All aspects of managing a portfolio that is in run-off including coverage advice and investigation and debt management
• Inspections guidance, support and assistance
• Dispute Resolution & debt recovery - including all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Solvent Schemes and Part VII Transfers

Intermediaries/Agents

• Advising on the interpretation of coverholder/binding authorities 
• Claims for and against producing and placing brokers
• Professional indemnity, directors and officers and errors and omission advice