Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that accomplished insurance attorney Dan Brown has joined the firm as a partner in the recently opened San Francisco office. Mr. Brown joins Eversheds Sutherland from McDermott Will & Emery, where he was a partner in the insurance practice, and advises clients in the insurance industry on complex regulatory and corporate issues.

“We are excited to welcome Dan to our new San Francisco office as we continue to focus on our expansion in strategic markets and practice areas,” said Mark D. Wasserman, Co-CEO of Eversheds Sutherland. “Dan’s extensive experience in excess and surplus lines insurance markets around the world complements our deep bench of regulatory and transactional insurance attorneys in the US and Europe and will establish a new West Coast anchor for the Global Insurance Practice Group.”

“Dan is a well-respected, leading insurance regulatory lawyer who will be a great addition to our team,” said John S. Pruitt, US Practice Group Leader Insurance. “His deep experience with insurtech as well as health and property and casualty insurance fits well into our top tier global practice and will greatly benefit our clients around the world.”

Mr. Brown’s clients include insurance companies, start-ups, agents, brokers and other stakeholders in the insurance industry. He has extensive experience advising alien or foreign insurers on how to comply with various state laws in placing business; early-stage and developed insurtech entities on regulatory and corporate issues; insureds on exempt and specialty lines; producers on licensing, placement and premium tax issues, including digitization of the process; and insureds on coverage and placement issues. He also advises London market participants on how to comply with US insurance laws, either by becoming admitted insurers or by using a variety of methods of covering US risks without being licensed.

He advises clients in a variety of licensing and compliance issues on an international scale, including: entity formation and licensure, mergers and acquisitions, resolution of broker compensation and disclosure issues, product development (both mandatory filing and exempt products), name changes and approval, preparation of licensing applications, preparation of applications for certificates of authority, and negotiations with departments of insurance regarding licensing and certification issues.

Prior to joining Eversheds Sutherland, Dan was a partner in the insurance practices at McDermott Will & Emery and several other major international law firms.

The Eversheds Sutherland Insurance practice has been advising leaders in the insurance industry for more than 50 years. Immersed in insurance—from transformative transactions to essential operations—Eversheds Sutherland’s team develops creative, business-oriented solutions in regulatory, mergers and acquisitions, finance, demutualizations, tax, litigation, reinsurance and captive insurance matters, among many others.