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Insurance

Overview

Global Approach. Texas Heritage.

While Winstead PC represents clients throughout the global insurance market, it embraces its Texas heritage and brings the best of that heritage to bear on behalf of its clients. We have built one of the most experienced insurance industry practices in the southwest, including some of Texas’ most experienced practitioners.

Our attorneys were instrumental in the development of the Texas Insurance Code, and we have not stopped at the state border. Winstead’s insurance industry lawyers practice wherever the insurance industry operates. Time and again our attorneys have made the difference to our clients by finding innovative solutions to complex issues. The skills of our attorneys are carefully coordinated to provide you with a full range of legal services – all wrapped into one relationship.

Insurance Practice Scope
Regulatory issues. Litigation. Legislation. Investments. Acquisitions. Divestitures. Federal and state taxation. Complex corporate and securities transactions.

Practicing wherever the insurance industry operates, our attorneys resolve complex issues with innovative approaches. Representative of our insurance industry legal counsel services are:
  • Enforcement and compliance issues with insurance regulators
  • Creation and implementation of legislative strategies and drafting of legislation
  • Administrative agency proceedings before state and federal agencies
  • Representing insurers in investment-related matters including debt, equity and capital market transactions
  • Experience with Texas regulatory agencies in workers’ compensation, excess and surplus lines and insolvency matters
  • Mergers, acquisitions and securities
  • Corporate financing including private placements
  • Debt restructuring and risk management
  • Licensing and redomestication
  • Litigation – Class action, complex and appellate

Cost-conscious, targeted and effective. Our Insurance Industry Practice Group attorneys represent many of the largest life and property-casualty insurers and insurance associations in the United States.

Attorneys in our insurance industry legal team include a former Associate Commissioner of the Texas Department of Insurance and a former chief deputy for litigation for the Office of the Texas Attorney General.

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