Emma Martin is Of Counsel in the Insurance Unit of A&L Goodbody’s Corporate Department. Her experience covers a wide range of aspects of insurance and reinsurance law and regulation. These include the set up and authorisation of insurers, reinsurers and insurance intermediaries, ongoing regulation, provision of cross-border services and the full spectrum of advisory and transactional issues including sale/purchase/transfer of insurance companies/businesses and restructurings. Recently Emma has advised on a large number of Brexit projects involving both insurers and intermediaries.

Areas of Expertise

Insurance & Reinsurance/Corporate and M&A/Brexit

Experience Advising:

Ongoing advice to a number of UK insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries in relation to Brexit related solutions
XL Group on the implementation of various strands of its Brexit relating restructuring
Zurich Insurance on the portfolio transfer of a non-core line of business
AIG Group on the transfer by scheme of arrangement of the Bermuda branch business of Chartis Excess to another Chartis insurer established in Bermuda and on the court sanctioned transfer of Chartis Excess's remaining insurance and reinsurance business to an AIG UK insurer. The Bermuda transaction was the first of its kind in Ireland or the UK and was a key factor in A&L Goodbody being ranked Ireland's most Innovative Law Firm for 2013 by the Financial Times
The Hartford on the sale of its Irish life assurance subsidiary, Hartford Life Limited to Columbia Insurance Company (a Berkshire Hathaway company)
Irish aspects of international mergers and acquisitions including Alico/Metlife
UBS on the transfer of a high value part of the life assurance business of an Irish authorised life insurer to a third party life undertaking based in France
Numerous transfers of captive insurance portfolios, including for the BMW and Procter & Gamble Groups
Major international insurance groups on Irish corporate and regulatory aspects of group restructurings
Numerous insurers and distributors on ongoing regulatory issues. These include day to day issues such as outsourcing and distribution arrangements, conduct of business / market and compliance issues