MJM

Our Corporate & Finance team delivers expert, commercially focused legal advice to insurers, reinsurers, captives, intermediaries, investors, sponsors, and brokers.

We specialise in the full lifecycle of non-contentious matters — from formation and licensing through to regulatory compliance, complex transactions, capital raisings, and strategic restructurings. Leveraging deep market knowledge and close relationships with the Bermuda Monetary Authority, we help clients navigate Bermuda’s progressive regulatory framework (including the Insurance Act 1978 and related rules) to achieve efficient, compliant, and value-driven outcomes in a dynamic global risk landscape.

Our Insurance and Reinsurance services include:

  • Formation, structuring, and licensing of all classes of insurers and reinsurers (commercial, captive, special purpose, collateralised, and segregated account companies)
  • Regulatory advice, compliance, and BMA applications, including changes of control, capital tiering, eligible capital determinations, and ongoing prudential requirements
  • Mergers, acquisitions, amalgamations, disposals, and re-domiciliations,
  • Capital raisings, private equity investments, financings, and securitisations;
  • Corporate governance, board advisory, and general regulatory support; and
  • Restructurings, run-offs, and winding-ups.
Recent work

Our team has advised on a range of high-profile mandates in the past two years, demonstrating our ability to deliver complex, time-sensitive solutions in a fast-evolving market. Recent examples include:

  • Acted for the acquirer of a class 2 insurance company and assisting with the procurement of the regulatory approvals’
  • Acted for the seller of an insurance broker and assisting with procuring regulatory approvals and notifications; and
  • Advised a venture capital firm for Web3 pioneers which assists founders build faster with capital, engineering and liquidity, in relation to the acquisition of shares in a licensed Bermuda insurance company also licensed under the Digital Asset Business Act 2018.