Global insurance.
Global reach.
We are more than a network.
Global Access Lawyers forms the alliance of 6 of the world's leading law firms.
Working together with shared strategic objectives and values, with the collective purpose of providing clients with Global Access to the best insurance law advice and client service, wherever in the world they might need it.
WE'RE BEST PLACED TO HELP
An integrated team of legal expertise, specialising in insurance law. Designed to help clients with their cross border insurance needs.
Australia
Colin Biggers & Paisley
Colin Biggers & Paisley is an Australian commercial legal practice with offices in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. We have a track record of excellence and are proud of our long-standing relationships with Australia's most respected and successful organisations.
Insurance is one of our core areas of practice. The team has a pre-eminent reputation for leadership, excellence, and service delivery. We understand the intricacies of the insurance market and the environment our clients compete in.
Our team of over 100 specialist insurance lawyers combine defence, coverage, policy and expertise to deliver effective commercial services to our clients, who comprise the majority of the international and domestic insurers and London Market insurers who are active in Australia.
We are internationally recognised through Band 1 of Chambers & Partners and Band 2 in The Legal 500 for Insurance, and as Insurance Firm of the Year 2021 by Best Lawyers in Australia.
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Canada
Miller Thomson
Miller Thomson is a leading full-service Canadian law firm with close to 550 lawyers based in 12 offices located throughout Canada and providing services in every province and territory.
As a result, our geographic coverage is unparalleled among other national firms which puts Miller Thomson in all of Canada’s key business centres. Our national capacity and resources enable our lawyers to represent private and public corporations in various areas of the law, and address our clients' needs, whatever their size, location, legal requirements and industry.
With over 30 years’ experience, the insurance group, led by Senior Partner Mark Frederick, is one of Canada’s largest practices. Our lawyers represent a wide variety of insurers, captives, reinsurers and self-insured entities in the defence of claims both nationally and internationally. The group’s members work closely with our banking and financial services, employment, real estate and tax colleagues, to offer the firm’s insurance clients with the broadest scope of legal services built upon by solid sector expertise.
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France
HMN
Established in 2006, HMN Partners brings together lawyers sharing the spirit of teamwork, collective performance, confidence and dialogue.
United in their pursuance of professional quality and ethics, HMN Partners has developed technical and legal complementary expertise, which is recognised in France and around the world.
In France and abroad, HMN Partners accompanies and advises, with rigour and dexterity, insurance firms, industrial corporations and service companies in fields as diverse as aviation and space, complex litigation and group actions, arbitration, insurance and reinsurance, industrial risk and product liability, life sciences, financial lines, cyber risk, company risk, criminal business law, construction and property, tourism and travel, and maritime and land transport.
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Hong Kong
RPC
Hong Kong is at the cross-roads of the global business community. Our award-winning and leading lawyers have decades of experience acting for clients in Hong Kong, China and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
We have an excellent reputation for delivering top quality advice and client service on both contentious and non-contentious matters. Our lawyers combine knowledge of the local markets with an understanding of our client's business and legal needs to provide practical and commercial solutions.
We offer a full range of services covering corporate transactional work, capital markets, regulatory, data, cyber and technology as well as all forms of dispute resolution including commercial litigation, international arbitration and mediation.
We act for clients locally, in China and across the Asia-Pacific region. We have strong relationships with some of the best local firms across Asia so that we are able to resolve issues for our clients wherever they may arise.
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Netherlands
Kennedy Van der Laan
Kennedy Van der Laan is an independent Dutch law firm. Equipped with specialist legal know-how, we service market leaders.
Together with our clients, we look at the interaction between the business, people and society, to devise commercial solutions in the clients' best interests.
Supporting insurance companies with their business is one of our core specialisms. Our native understanding of the commercial context in which insurance companies operate allows us to advise on complex and wide-ranging business issues. Our practice covers all aspects of the insurance business, ranging from coverage and defence work on almost all lines of business to insurance law, regulatory and corporate insurance.
We service all major insurance companies active in the Netherlands, many of the larger intermediaries, insurance brokers, insurance pools and loss adjusters. We also advise corporations and governmental bodies on insurance related matters.
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Singapore
RPC
The Singapore team understands the complex issues facing clients across the Asia-Pacific region working with them to provide commercial and cost-effective solutions for their business needs.
As one of a few international law firms operating in Singapore under a Joint Law Venture, known as RPC Premier Law, our clients are able to obtain seamless advice from a single entity. We draw together the international expertise and resources of RPC and the local knowledge of Premier Law to provide an exceptional service. Our team of leading lawyers combine decades of experience in the region with unrivalled expertise in their respective markets.
We offer a comprehensive range of services, with expertise in legal sectors including construction; corporate and commercial; dispute resolution (including banking and financial disputes); energy; international arbitration; insurance and reinsurance; and shipping and international trade.
Singapore is an important hub for Asia, and together with local firm Premier Law, our clients can expect a comprehensive service throughout the region. In jurisdictions where we don't have an office, we have strong relationships with some of the best local firms across Asia. We ensure that clients not only receive the best advice about the law in a particular jurisdiction, but also receive practical and commercial advice focused on resolving their problems.
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UK
Reynolds Porter Chamberlain LLP
RPC provides smart legal solutions to business-critical issues across the insurance, finance, retail and technology sectors.
Our deep sector focus enables us to help clients by understanding them and their market's commercial needs. And our team ethos embraces a collaborative approach to supporting our clients, ensuring we bring the collective capability and experience of the wider firm to support our clients.
With more than 600 people, including more than 90 partners, nearly 300 lawyers across our London, Bristol, Hong Kong and Singapore offices, we have the strength and depth to handle the largest and most complex client issues.
Insurance is in our blood. For more than 70 years we've been helping insurers do business across the globe. From handling complex claims across all key business lines to advising on high-stakes transactions, our experience and understanding of insurance in a commercial context really sets us apart.
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USA
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Hinshaw & Culbertson is a US law firm with offices in thirteen states and across all major cities, with more than 85 years of close association with the insurance industry.
Hinshaw is one of the nation's leading firms representing domestic and foreign insurance companies in a full range of matters. We regularly represent insurers in state and federal courts across the country and internationally at the trial and appellate court levels. We evaluate and resolve matters from the claims stage through to mediation and arbitration, providing expert coverage analysis and opinions. We also evaluate client portfolio issues, assist in product development and drafting contract language, and provide training and other advice. We often serve as national or regional counsel. Our lawyers also represent insurers with regulatory compliance.
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Latin America
With an expanding accessibility to insurance cover and rapidly accelerating adoption of digital technology, the Latin American market is poised for rapid growth. In the context of a comparatively early development of insurance laws and regulations, the deft and innovative team provided through Global Access Lawyers meets the challenges.
We have a long history of reducing the value of liability for insurers across Latin America. Our international group of experts have worked extensively in the region. Not only do we speak the language of insurance, but we speak the languages of Latin America, too. With dedicated LATAM desks from HMN Partners, RPC and Hinshaw & Culbertson, working together, you can be assured we have the knowledge and ability to provide advice on your Latin American exposures.
Having on-the-ground experience in both the London Market and Latin America, we understand the markets and how they interact with each other. This insight allows us to implement solutions and strategies which match the complexities and nuances of both markets, with our clients' expressed goals at the center.
The Global Access Lawyers platform opens up contact to the very best Latin American lawyers. We have strong relationships with strategically placed law firms across Latin America, with high quality people we know and trust. The Global Access Lawyers office in Miami provides a Latin American regional hub for the needs of our clients in the market.
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