Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is best known for offering the full service of corporate and regulatory issues for clients. The team also advises on W&I insurance matters. Practice head Geraldine Quirk carries extensive experience when it comes to restructuring, transactional, and regulatory advice for her clients. Quirk’s client base often includes brokers, non-life and life insurers, reinsurers, and legacy entities, and she focuses on cross-border mergers, reinsurance arrangements, and all aspects of the UK regulatory regime. Adam Bogdanor advises several high-profile clients within the hotels and financial services industries on Part VII business transfer schemes, conduct of business, and M&A.
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‘Great practice group within a firm with strong credentials in various aspects of the insurance industry.’
Key clients
- Enstar Group
- RiverStone Group
- Aspen
- QBE
- AXA Insurance UK Limited
- Premia Group
- Tangency Capital
- Fidelis
- Allianz Trade
- CNA Insurance
- English & American Insurance Company Limited
- OIC Run-Off Limited and The London & Overseas Insurance Company Limited
- Administrators of GBG Insurance Limited
- Quest Group
Work highlights
Advised the Scheme Administrators of English & American Insurance Company Limited on a final closure scheme of arrangement with its creditors, all of whom are based in the US, to close the estate.
Advised EIFLOW Insurance company on its acquisition of a book of insurance business from Cardif Pinnacle.
Advised the administrators of GBG Insurance Limited, a Guernsey insurer providing individual and group health policies across the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
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Practice head
Geraldine Quirk
Other key lawyers
Adam Bogdanor