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Darren is a partner and Head of Corporate Insurance at Matheson Ormsby Prentice. Darren's practice concentrates on providing legal and regulatory advice to life and non-life insurance companies, reinsurance companies, captive insurance companies and insurance intermediaries.
He has advised a wide range of leading domestic and international clients on all aspects of insurance law and regulation including establishment and authorisation in Ireland, the development and distribution of insurance products, compliance with legal and regulatory requirements and consolidation and restructuring of insurance operations including portfolio transfers and mergers and acquisitions.
Darren has published articles in leading insurance publications and is co-author of the Irish chapter of PLC's Cross-border Insurance and Reinsurance Handbook.
Darren has lectured on insurance law at the Law Society of Ireland and the Insurance Institute of Ireland.
He is a member of the Insurance Institute of Ireland and the British Insurance Law Association.
Education
University College Dublin and DePaul College of Law, Chicago, BCL (International)
Highlights
Darren advises a number of domestic and international insurers, reinsurers, captives and intermediaries in respect of their Irish operations and some transactions on which he has advised include:
- advising global insurance and reinsurance groups on the establishment of Irish insurance and reinsurance operations
- advising Irish insurers on inwards and outwards portfolio transfers advising global insurance groups on the acquisition of Irish insurance companies
- advising global insurance groups on the restructuring of their European insurance operations
- advising insurers carrying on business in Ireland on the development and distribution of new products
- advising Irish insurance intermediaries on distribution arrangements with insurers
- advising global insurance brokers on the restructuring of their Irish business operations
- ongoing legal and regulatory advice to various domestic and international insurers and reinsurers carrying on business in Ireland
