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Campbells’ insurance and reinsurance team is spearheaded by Alan Craig, who is actively involved in advising leading insurance managers on the formation, licensing and operation of a large proportion of the captive insurance entities established in the Cayman Islands. He also advises reinsurers established in and re-domesticating to Cayman, as well as foreign insurers participating in the domestic market, particularly in relation to M&A and insurance-related capital market products. The group is advising the owners of Global Captive Management on the sale of the company to Holmes Murphy. Another key practitioner to note is insurance litigation specialist Alistair Walters, who specialises in acting for major insurance carriers in commercial litigation and other disputes.

Led by Derek Stenson, the dedicated team of insurance specialists at Conyers is instructed on a substantial portion of the region's major reinsurer establishments, mergers, and migrations. With close ties to leading insurance firms in the US and the firm’s Bermuda office, the group advises on alternative risk transfers, catastrophe bonds, insurance-related M&A, regulatory advisory mandates, insurance litigation and insurance financing matters. Key clients include insurers, reinsurers, captive owners, insurance managers and insurance consultants. Counsel Rob Humphries and associate Philippa Gilkes are further names to note; elsewhere, Alex Potts QC joined the department from Kennedys' Bermuda office and is now contentious insurance and reinsurance practice head.

Working closely with the firm’s regulatory, corporate, finance and dispute resolution specialists, Walkers' insurance group is instructed on a wide range of matters in the insurance and reinsurance space. In addition to its expertise in establishing and licensing life and non-life insurers and reinsurers, the team also acts on financing arrangements, M&A, restructurings, alternative risk transfer structures and regulatory issues, aided by the firm’s ‘strong knowledge of regulatory requirements’. Insurance-linked securities expert Philip Paschalides, global regulatory head Lucy Frew, David Collins and Nick Dunne are all key names to note, handling an assortment of insurance and reinsurance mandates.

Maples Group’s insurance team, which is led by Tim Frawley, is particularly active in insurance-related M&A and corporate matters and regulatory compliance work. As well as advising on the licensing of insurers, managers and brokers and capital insurance issues, the group also has experience in insurance-related disputes. Abraham Thoppil and John Dykstra are other key lawyers in the group; Dykstra is highly adept at dealing with catastrophe bond transactions.