Our clients
Our clients include well-known insurance and reinsurance companies. We also offer policyholders, in particular companies, support in negotiations with their insurers.
ART, ILS/ILW
Advice on structuring ILS or ILW/ART
We can support you in setting up the right corporate structures and advising you on structuring and implementing alternative reinsurance agreements
Liability
- Directors and officers’ liability (D&O)
- Employer’s liability (EL)
- Fidelity insurance
- Cyber
- Personal injury
- Other financial losses (e.g. liability of architects, lawyers, asset managers, trustees, brokers)
Frequently, not only the liability issues themselves, but also their assessment under insurance law, are complex in nature. We use our strategic expertise to find amicable solutions in your interest. If this is not successful, we will represent you in arbitration proceedings, in the context of mediation or in court.
Insurance and reinsurance
Insurance and reinsurance law
We specialise in insurance contract law, insurance supervisory law, compliance issues, EU regulation, including Solvency II, and cross-border insurance business. If a dispute does arise we are able to represent your interests in mediation proceedings, in court or before arbitration tribunals.
We can also act as arbitrators in arbitration proceedings and mediators
Insurance distribution
Regulatory requirements for insurance distribution have risen continuously in Europe and in Switzerland in recent years. We can help you with advice on current laws and regulations and expected changes to them.
Compliance
Vertretung in Schiedsverfahren, Mediation
We will inform you about relevant legal changes and help you in setting up and maintaining effective internal company compliance.
Data protection
Legal requirements for the protection of personal data in Switzerland and in the EU have been constantly increasing, individuals are also becoming more aware of the need to protect their data and their resulting rights. The internet means that local markets and physical borders are becoming less and less relevant, so that data protection issues have often taken on a multinational character.
We can aid you in understanding and fulfilling your data protection obligations – across borders and transnationally and how laws relating to AI may affect you.
International
Multinationals ex-pats, risks located in different countries, cross-border liability cases, international covers,. Insurance solutions for cross-border problems, such as international insurance programmes, raise complex questions in practice; among others they raise questions of internationalinsurance supervisory law, international private law, procedural and/or arbitration law when drafting contracts, but also in the event of a claim.
International network
The internationalisation of business life brings with it cross-border legal issues and disputes. In many cases, there is a need to involve a local law firm in the respective jurisdiction that not only knows the local law, but also the customs and peculiarities of the local courts and supervisory authorities.
Through our network, we can put you in touch with partner law firms that fulfil this need and we can take the pressure off you by coordinating the entire cooperation with the local partner law firm for you.
