EY Partner To Speak At SIFMA’s Conference
Craig Redcliffe, Partner specializing in insurance- and risk-linked assets at Financial Services firm EY will participate in a panel discussion titled “The Tail that Wags the Dog: Recent Developments in Tax, Legal and Accounting for IRLS” on March 5 at SIFMA’s 2014 Insurance- and Risk-Linked Securities [IRLS] Conference at Grand Hyatt New York.
Mr. Redcliffe will be joined on the panel by Shlomo Boehm, Partner at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP; Matthew Feig, Special Counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP; and Michael Groll, Partner at Wilkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP. Bill Dubinsky, Head of Insurance-Linked Securities at Willis Capital Markets & Advisory, will moderate the discussion.
Mr. Redcliffe and his fellow panelists will discuss how recent tax, legal and accounting developments impacting cat bonds, sidecars and related solutions will affect the insurance and risk linked securities market.EY is a leader in the convergence space, with a strong network of professionals that serve the market on a global basis.
EY provides assistance beginning with the first steps of formation including jurisdictional analysis, audit, assurance, actuarial reserving, transaction support, internal controls, tax consulting and compliance, regulatory assistance and valuation support.
Mr. Redcliffe has extensive experience in this space including assisting start-up reinsurance clients with hedge fund structures, catastrophe bond structures and related valuation issues, side-cars, joint ventures, ILW’s, catastrophe derivatives, weather derivatives and ILS funds.
Mr. Redcliffe, who is available to speak about his participation in the panel discussion, commented, “The insurance- and risk-linked securities market has emerged as an innovative and important component of Bermuda’s financial services infrastructure and a key growth area for EY. We are pleased to be supporting this conference as platinum sponsor, and look forward to sharing our insights on recent developments with those attending the panel discussion.”
EY will also be hosting a private dinner immediately following the conference’s opening reception.
More information about the conference is available online here.
