Bio

Nicholas Williams focuses his practice on mergers, acquisitions and capital markets transactions in both the property and casualty and life and health insurance industries. Nick has assisted clients on all manner of insurance-related needs, including reinsurance, brokering, demutualizations, insolvencies, captive insurer formations, licensings and coverage issues, and has represented clients in the governmental as well as the private sector. He also has considerable experience in insurance-related capital markets transactions, including IPOs, private placements, 144A and Regulation S offerings, primary and secondary equity offerings and contingent capital transactions. In recent years, Nick has led the development of Basel III-compliant insurance products which provide capital relief for global banks and other financial institutions, and he has guided numerous major U.S. and international institutions in this space. Nick is frequently called upon by boards of directors and senior executives for assistance with their directors' and officers' (D&O) insurance coverage needs.