Thomas Morante and Yani Contreras have joined law firm Carlton Fields from Kaufman Dolowich Voluck.
Both Morante and Contreras are members of Carlton Fields’ financial services regulatory practice group and its life, annuity, and retirement solutions industry group.
Morante will lead the firm’s international insurance regulatory team, which handles foreign insurance regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters.
For more than 30 years, Morante has counselled clients in US and foreign insurance matters.
Morante advises insurance and reinsurance companies; captive insurers; insurance agents, brokers, and wholesalers; and investment funds and fund managers.
He also assists insurance clients in the development of offshore life insurance, annuities, and investment products in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and other jurisdictions as well as counsel on the foreign laws implicated in the distribution and cross-border sale of insurance products, with an emphasis on Latin America and Asia.
Contreras is a consultant whose practise focuses on international regulatory and transactional matters, particularly for insurance and financial services clients.
She has extensive experience in life insurance and annuities, health insurance, travel insurance, surplus lines, and reinsurance, and works on matters involving Latin America, particularly Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, and some Asian countries.
“Morante and Contreras bring a wealth of experience in regulatory matters, particularly cross-border and foreign country work, which augments our existing deep bench in financial services,” added Ann Began Furman, who co-chairs the firm’s financial services regulatory practice group.
