allowing a seamless and dedicated service to our clients. Our insurance lawyers combine a detailed knowledge of the law with a commercial awareness of the insurance industry.
Director
charl.williams@cdhlegal.We support clients in all aspects of insurance law locally, across the rest of Africa, and abroad, including:
• Complex insurance-related litigation
• Disputes over insurance and reinsurance cover
• Guarantee disputes
• Claims handling, monitoring and coordination
• Drafting of arbitration clauses and agreements
• Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance, fiduciary, professional liability, and fidelity cover
• Product and general liability cover
• Environmental liability cover
• Claims related to insurance and reinsurance intermediaries
• Class action proceedings
• Cover and contribution litigation
• Cyber insurance and forensic investigations
• D&O and professional liability cover and defence
• Products liability defence
• Construction insurance
• Environmental claims
• Mining infrastructure claims
• Business interruption
• Suits between health insurers and providers
• Disability or regulatory issues arising out of personnel policies
• Restructuring and crisis management response
• Corporate insurance mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings and expansion into new markets
• Capital market raising
• Structuring and implementing insurance and reinsurance transactions
• Drafting insurance guarantees
• Distribution, outsourcing and other commercial contracts
• Cell captive arrangements
• Broad-based black economic empowerment
• Compliance with relevant legislation and codes
• Drafting policies
• New product development and structuring
• Provision of opinions
• Policies for mining rehabilitation provisions
Our recent corporate insurance transactions, dispute and advisory work include: