Philip Hopley

Philip’s experience includes advising on:

• Financial services regulation, licensing and prudential compliance matters for general and life insurance and reinsurance. This includes all of the legislative reforms affecting the insurance sector introduced in 2021.
• Distribution arrangements and distribution model management for carriers and distributors.
• Scheme transfers of life and general insurance business.
• Acquisitions and divestments of insurance and financial advice businesses.
• New and amending product design for life and general insurance on an individual and group basis.
• Liaising with the conduct and prudential regulators, ASIC and APRA, in relation to regulatory approval and relief applications, breach reporting, investigation, enforcement and remediation work.
• Reinsurance advice and policy drafting, including benchmarking and value-in-force quota share arrangements.
• Insurance benchmarking and placement advice for commercial insureds.
• Warranty and Indemnity (W&I) insurance.