Overview
A multinational, capital-backed insurance group rated A-/VIII by A.M. Best is seeking an Associate General Counsel focused on Reinsurance. This full-time, remote position based in the USA involves providing legal support for outward reinsurance placements within a technology-enabled hybrid insurance carrier. The organization partners with MGAs, captives, and intermediaries to develop niche insurance products across various industries.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Ceded Reinsurance placement team from deal inception through execution, taking primary legal responsibility for structuring, drafting, negotiating, and finalizing reinsurance agreements across the full portfolio of property and casualty business.
- Draft and maintain trust agreements, collateral agreements, and risk transfer frameworks, ensuring collateral sufficiency, sound trust operations, and signatory governance.
- Provide end-to-end legal support for complex reinsurance-related transactions, including captive programs, collateralized arrangements, and insurance-linked securities (ILS), advising on structure, documentation, and offshore risk transfer frameworks.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with reinsurers, brokers, and contract wording teams, serving as a trusted legal counterpart.
- Manage reinsurance disputes and commutations, coordinating with external counsel, claims, and finance teams to protect contractual interests and achieve timely resolution.
- Monitor and interpret reinsurance regulatory developments across relevant jurisdictions, partnering with Compliance to maintain structurally sound and well-documented programs.
- Negotiate trust agreement language with reinsurers and financial institutions, ensuring regulatory compliance.
- Coordinate with outside counsel on complex cross-border transactions and regulatory matters, managing external relationships efficiently.
- Drive development and continuous improvement of legal guidelines, standard contract templates, and governance frameworks for reinsurance documentation.
- Contribute to special projects and strategic legal initiatives as directed by the Group General Counsel.
Requirements
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant legal experience at a law firm, in-house at an insurance carrier or reinsurer, or a combination, with substantial focus on reinsurance transactional work.
- Extensive experience negotiating and drafting ceded reinsurance treaties, quota shares, facultative certificates, trust agreements, and commutation documentation.
- Strong knowledge of collateralized reinsurance, ILS market structures, and offshore risk transfer frameworks.
- Solid understanding of US reinsurance law, including regulatory requirements, coverage interpretation, claims cooperation provisions, and arbitration clauses.
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-party transactions independently in a time-sensitive, commercially driven environment.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and analytical skills with meticulous attention to contractual detail.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable engaging with senior business leaders, external counsel, brokers, and reinsurance market counterparties.
- Highly organized with strong project management skills and ability to manage a broad portfolio of matters simultaneously.
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school; active bar admission in at least one U.S. jurisdiction required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with offshore collateralized structures, Cayman Islands or other offshore domicile regulatory frameworks, and associated governance requirements.
- Familiarity with UK/London market practices and reinsurance documentation.
- Experience advising on reinsurance aspects of M&A, portfolio transfers, or corporate restructurings.
- Knowledge of specialty reinsurance products.
- Exposure to fronting arrangements and MGA/MGU program business.
Skills
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, commercially driven legal environment with competing priorities.
- High degree of professional judgment and discretion handling confidential or sensitive legal matters.
- Comfortable operating in an ambiguous, high-growth environment where legal frameworks and processes are evolving.
- Collaborative mindset with ability to partner effectively across legal, compliance, underwriting, finance, and operations.
- Proactive approach to identifying legal risks and developing practical, business-oriented solutions.
- Ability to leverage AI tools (e.g., Claude) to enhance productivity and support role-specific responsibilities.
Compensation & Benefits
Benefits and total compensation details are available upon request.
Location
Remote position based in the USA.