Mallesons’ Insurance team helps major insurers and reinsurers to achieve their strategic objectives, manage risks and resolve major disputes when they arise.

Our recent experience includes:

• The insurers of the Victorian Councils with respect to Royal Commission into the Victorian Bushfires, and more generally on the issues arising from the disaster
• Brookfield Multiplex in defence of shareholder class action proceedings in conjunction with its D&O insurers
• LPLC in relation to various claims brought against  national law firms, including one recent NSW Supreme Court action in which sets the benchmark for the width of ex contractual duties
• Japanese insurance market in relation to various flood claims arsing from the 2008 Queensland floods
• One of the “Big Four” accountants on claims arising out of the Centro collapse
• Calliden Group Limited on the acquisition of the local general insurance businesses from Australian Unity, including obtaining approval from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
• Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC) on the establishment of its local lenders mortgage insurance business, including obtaining approval from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
• Fortress Investment Group LLC on the Australian aspects of a worldwide acquisition of the insurance operations of Alea London Limited.