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Ms Laurie LaPalme
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Career
Laurie LaPalme (She/Her/Hers) is the Global Insurance Sector Leader at Dentons. She also leads Dentons Canada’s National Corporate and Regulatory Insurance practice and is the co-leader of the National Insurance sector group. With more than 20 years of experience advising domestic and foreign life and general insurance companies, insurance agents and brokers, reinsurance companies on corporate and regulatory matters, transactions, corporate reorganizations, and governance issues, clients note that Laurie is “absolutely an expert and that comes across clearly in the work,” taken from a Chambers Canada client interview.
Clients benefit from her deep understanding of the Canadian and global insurance markets, and how to navigate the regulatory landscape to help their businesses grow and operate in Canada.
Laurie’s corporate and insurance regulatory practice involves mergers and acquisitions, portfolio transfers, demutualization, corporate reorganizations, formation of insurers, federal and provincial licensing, corporate governance, compliance matters and working with both federal and provincial regulators.
She advises on the establishment and operation of captive insurers, self-funded deductible programs and other risk retention and transfer structures. She also advises on entry into Canada, including the incorporation, organization and financing of companies, the drafting of shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and drafting of a range of commercial agreements, including outsourcing, security, and service agreements.
Laurie works closely with members of our risk management team to ensure clients are proactively protected in all of their business operations.
She regularly organizes and presents seminars to clients and professional associations, and has authored numerous articles on various insurance regulatory issues of current interest.
Languages
English
Memberships
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Member, Ontario Bar Association
Education
University of Western Ontario, 1998, LLB
Wilfred Laurier University, 1995, BBA (Hons)
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Insurance
(Leading individuals)Dentons’ national insurance practice remains in growth mode. Following the hire of a large team from Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP in February 2022, the practice was further enhanced in December 2022 with the hire of Montreal-based insurance specialist Nathalie Durocher, who has a focus on professional liability and regulatory compliance. The arrival of Durocher, who joins from a lawyers collective, provides the group with a valuable Quebec platform. The national department continues to be led from Toronto by corporate and regulatory insurance expert Laurie LaPalme and insurance litigator Douglas Stewart.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation
- Business immigration
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- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Telecoms
- Cannabis
- Capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Environment
- Indigenous law
- Insurance
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Banking and finance
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Infrastructure projects
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
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