Led by corporate and capital markets expert Christian Kremer, Clifford Chance deploys a multi-disciplinary approach to servicing insurance clients. In this context, a good deal of the work is transactional in nature with the team excelling in helping international insurance entities establish operations in Luxembourg, as well as regularly working on big-ticket M&A deals in the sector and on the transfer of portfolios of insurance business. Udo Prinz left the firm in May 2025.
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Key clients
- International Capital Market Association (ICMA) /International Securities Lending Association (ISLA)
- FIA, Inc (global trade organisation for the futures, options and centrally cleared derivatives markets)
Work highlights
Advising a private equity fund on their indirect acquisition of a significant minority interest in a Luxembourg reinsurance undertaking.
Advising and assisting a Belgium insurance company subsidiary of the group, with a branch established in Luxembourg, in relation to the transfer of a closed book of life insurance business (with some non-life insurance) consisting of Luxembourg and Dutch policies to a Luxembourg insurance undertaking.
Advised an international specialty insurer on the legal and regulatory aspects of the setting up of its Luxembourg regulated direct non-life insurance company and its London branch.
Practice head
Christian Kremer
Other key lawyers
Ada Schmitt; Isadora Rousselle