Geraldine Quirk > Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Offices
Governor’s House
5 Laurence Pountney Hill
EC4R 0BR
England
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Geraldine Quirk
Work Department
Corporate Insurance
Position
Partner
Career
Gerry is a Partner in the Corporate Insurance team in London. She has 25 years’ experience in providing regulatory and restructuring advice to clients in the insurance market, including non-life and life insurers and reinsurers, brokers and intermediaries, and legacy entities.
She advises on acquisitions, disposals and restructurings using transfer schemes, cross border mergers, reinsurance arrangements and schemes of arrangement; and on all aspects of the UK regulatory regime.
Gerry has extensive experience advising on business transfers under Part VII of FSMA both within the UK and on a cross border basis. She advised on the first transfer out of Lloyd’s, and the first transfer for a Gibraltar insurer and is as an acknowledged market leader. Her clients include many of the leading insurers in the UK and internationally and almost all of the major players in the legacy sector.
Having been elected by a group of her peers, she won the IRLA Services to Legacy Business Award in 2019, which recognises exceptional service to the insurance legacy/discontinued business sector. Gerry is one of only two private practice lawyers to have ever won the award and is the first woman to have been recognized in the award’s 13-year history.
Geraldine is a contributing author to Financial Regulation: Emerging Themes in 2020 – an extensive collection of articles around the themes of supervision, governance, financial crime and investigations and digital.
Languages
English
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
(Hall of Fame)Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is led by Geraldine Quirk, who is notable for her extensive experience in Part VII transfers, which is reflected in the wider firm’s particular strength in these transactions both cross-border and wholly within the UK. Quirk and the wider firm also have broader capabilities in the insurance space, with a track record in handling typical M&A, reinsurance transactions, restructures, and regulatory advice in relation to Brexit and the EU. Adam Bogdanor is noted for his work with leading insurers on a range of transactional mandates, while Andrew Hart is more focused on US clients in relation to their international transactions and EU operations.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Insurance: corporate and regulatory London > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Transport > Aviation
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Finance > Securitisation
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)