If the stakes are high, you can rely on Mallesons for commercial and innovative legal solutions, tailored to your strategic priorities and approach to doing business.
Our market leading team are known for comprehensive front-end and back-end capability acting for both policyholders, insurers and reinsurers providing an insight, depth of industry knowledge and market leading experience difficult to match by other practitioners in Australia.
In acting for world leading insurers, reinsurers and their policy holders, our insurance and reinsurance practice provides our clients with an in-depth knowledge of the industry market and applicable regulatory frameworks as well as understanding key risks in Australia.
Identifying the core issues quickly
We know the key players in the market and understand the key current drivers in the sector. Our experience acting on ‘both sides of the fence’ has allowed Mallesons to develop an in-depth knowledge of the industry and understand key risks associated with in the financial services sector.
We can help clients focus on the crux of the matter, isolating the core issues, identifying the commercial and legal drivers of a matter and minimising uncertainty and risk. Whether the matter involves complex contentious or non-contentious insurance issues, we give pragmatic advice, with a clear recommendation about the best way forward – we will not sit on the fence on difficult issues.
We have one of the leading reinsurance practices in Australia
As key advisers to many participants in the reinsurance industry in Australia, we are unique compared to other advisors in our ability to bring you holistic, specialist expertise for all the issues relevant to reinsurance – both ‘business as usual’ and transactional – including negotiations, drafting, dispute resolution, governance and regulatory (including dealing with APRA).
Our insurance specialists cover both front-end and back-end reinsurance, each of which requires specific skill sets. Our transactional team has the governance and project management skills to ensure smooth delivery of our clients’ transactions, our regulatory team has a deep understanding of the regulatory framework underlying insurance products and our depth across dispute resolution, negotiations and drafting is unmatched in the market.
Regularly appointed to advise on complex and significant reinsurance matters of high profile, we have experience with a range of mortality and longevity risk transfer structures, including funded structures, buy-outs and buy-ins, unfunded structures, derivatives including longevity swaps, insurance and reinsurance and associated collateral arrangements and prudential capital implications.
We don’t believe in a one-size-fits-all approach – we’ll tailor a team to meet your needs.
For example, reinsurance often requires specialist advice on other areas including regulatory and governance. We have leading expertise in each of these specialist areas, and you will have ‘one-stop shop’ access to those resources as and when required.
