Andrew focuses his practice on insurance regulatory and compliance law.
Insurance Companies
Andrew represents insurance companies, reinsurers, and insurance-related business entities in the formation and licensing of new companies, including obtaining initial UCAA licensing, multistate expansion applications, and approval of corporate amendments applications. He also represents other individuals and corporate entities that are regulated by insurance departments, or adjacent to the insurance space, including third party adjusters (TPAs), managing general agents, producers, agencies, adjusters, and consultants.
Captive Insurers
Andrew counsels captive insurers in connection with formation, licensing, redomestication, conversion, and dissolution. He provides them with support for their ongoing legal needs, including regulatory compliance, examinations, corporate filings, board and stockholder meetings, coverage issues, contract drafting, reinsurance, and administrative proceedings.
Insurance Holding Company Filings and Insurance Company Mergers and Acquisitions
Andrew represents insurance entity clients in connection with Form A mergers, acquisitions and other change-of-control events, handling all aspects of regulatory compliance and approval applications. He regularly drafts and obtains regulatory approval of Form D affiliate service agreements, dividend requirements, enterprise risk reports, Form B and Form C registration filings, Form F enterprise risk reports, corporate governance annual disclosures, and related filings under Insurance Holding Company Acts. He also represents existing and potential investors in insurance companies in connection with disclaimers of control, Form A filing requirements, and ordinary and extraordinary dividend requests.
Insurance Producers, Agents, and Agencies
Andrew counsels insurance producers, agents, and agencies on licensing matters across all U.S. jurisdictions. His experience includes acquisitions and sales of insurance agencies licensed in all 50 states and D.C. He regularly represents producers in administrative disputes and reporting actions before state departments of insurance.
Third Party Administrators
Andrew forms third-party administrators (TPAs) and assists with drafting agreements for TPAs to implement with insurer partners for compliance with applicable law. Clients appreciate his depth of legal knowledge and strong working relationships with state insurance regulators in Arizona and nationwide.