Yannis Samothrakis

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He also manages French or cross-border corporate projects: portfolio transfers, mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, in particular in the area of run-off.

Prior to joining Clyde & Co, Yannis was a partner in a major US law firm. He previously worked at the Economics & Finance Committee of the European insurance and reinsurance federation (Insurance Europe) in Brussels.

Yannis is a member of the legal commission and of the run-off working group of the Association of French Reinsurance Professionals (APREF). He chairs the International Association of Insurance Law‘s (AIDA) State Supervision Working Party and is a member of its Presidential Council. Yannis has also been appointed as an expert on the European Commission‘s Expert Group on a European Insurance Contract Law. He teaches insurance law at the Insurance Institute of Paris at Paris Dauphine University.

Yannis is recommended for Insurance by Chambers Europe and the Legal 500, with clients praising his “pragmatism and good competence in the market and its rules” (Legal 500 EMEA, 2022). He has been listed as a “Global Leader” by Who's Who Legal: Insurance & Reinsurance (2022) and is named a “Thought Leader” for Insurane & Reinsurance in France (Who‘s Who Legal, 2023).

相关经验

• Several portfolio transfers of insurance and reinsurance risks, either live or in run-off. These include complex transactions such as cross-border transfers of participations in a pool of risks in run off involving the novation and commutation of retrocession arrangements
• Assisting Assurant in their successful bid to partner with Fnac-Darty for their mobile phone and electronic devices insurance / assistance in structuring the transaction
• Advising CCR Re, the French state-owned reinsurer, in establishing the first France domiciled collateralised reinsurance sidecar vehicle, 157 Re. 157 Re is the first insurance-linked securities vehicle to be governed by French law
• Assisting Agria, a Swedish insurer specialising in pet insurance, in setting up a branch in France, designing their product and distribution set-up and addressing all regulatory / compliance issues related to their cross-border activity
• Assisting AXA Art in designing a product to be distributed on a fully-compliant cross-border basis in several EEA Member States and Switzerland from their German carrier
• Setting up complex reinsurance and retrocession arrangement in the context of several buy in / buy out transaction whereby a French insurance company is insuring pension risks for Irish and UK trusts sponsored by major industrial groups for the benefit of their employees
• Assisting a major French insurer in transferring a live hail insurance portfolio to a Swiss insurance company
• Advising several insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries in relation to the impact of Brexit