Subject Matter Expertise

Commercial/Securities

Lorraine’s cross-disciplinary approach to structuring a wide range of commercial transactions has proven invaluable for her role as an arbitrator or mediator. She stresses the need for patience, persistence and careful listening to help ensure each party to a dispute receives a balanced and impartial proceeding. Her experience as General Counsel, Global Derivatives and Government Affairs to a global public company, and as senior counsel to several financial services firms, provides a perspective of having “been in the trenches” to resolve complex, commercial matters.

• Extensive experience structuring private and public company transactions, including business and sale, global M&A, partnership, joint venture and corporate finance transactions.

• Co-headed the project team for the corporate reorganization and redomestication of XL Group, a public holding company with assets of $45B+, from the Cayman Islands to Ireland.

• Advised boards of directors and senior management on corporate governance related requirements for global public companies including NYSE listing standards and SEC rules and regulations.

• Headed strategic projects on employment, domestic and international tax matters, indemnification and corporate privacy matters.

• Acted as chief compliance officer, with operational oversight, for registered broker-dealer and registered investment advisor.

Insurance

Lorraine’s industry experience as General Counsel to a specialty re/insurance group with a portfolio aggregating $5B+ in risk exposure makes her particularly well-suited to handle risk transfer cases where an insurance company is either a party or insures one or more of the parties to a dispute. She has:

• Drafted and negotiated contracts for all forms of property/casualty insurance and annuity coverage, including D&O liability, financial guaranty, commercial general liability (“CGL”), structured indemnity, political risk, employment practice liability (“EPL”) and reps and warranties insurance.  

• Co-led the management teams of a start-up Bermuda-based investment manager focused on catastrophic risk and collateralized reinsurance products.

• Acted as lead counsel for a $60B transaction involving the sale of a majority ownership stake in a publicly held financial guaranty company.