For over 30 years, SSA has been offering specialized legal advisory to Insurance Companies, Reinsurers and Insurance Brokers in highly complex cases.

We provide advisory and litigation services to insurance companies, reinsurers, insurtechs, MGAs and brokers, on all fronts of their businesses. We offer highly specialized legal solutions and support focused on major risks, with emphasis on non-life insurance, including surety bonds, credit insurance, general liability, directors’ liability (D&O), professional liability (E&O), environmental, engineering risks, named and operational risks, property, agribusiness, transport, maritime and port, aeronautical, oil and gas (onshore and offshore) and cyber risks.

Regulatory activity:

Legal guidance and support in the regulatory sphere, assisting our clients in matters such as approval of new products, incorporation of new companies and other matters related to the insurance market.

Risk underwriting:

We support our clients’ underwriting teams, ensuring efficient risk allocation. We work to select the most appropriate product for the assessed risk, ensuring better results in the event of claims, benefiting all parties involved.

Claims adjustment:

Our technical and legal advisory covers all phases of claims adjustment, including monitoring expectations and coordinating the technical teams responsible for adjustment. We assist insurers in adopting measures aimed at avoiding claims and/or making safe decisions within the scope of the respective adjustment processes, by assessing the applicable coverage and respective settlement, when applicable, in addition to assessing the feasibility of indemnification against third parties and respective extrajudicial negotiation when applicable. Our focus is to avoid claims and ensure, when they occur, that the adjustment process is conducted in a transparent and efficient manner and in compliance with the applicable legal aspects.

Regulatory activity:

We act preventively in the review of contracts, insurance policies, counter-guarantees and guarantees related to various operations, including Project Finance and Capital Markets. Our goal is to mitigate risks and ensure the solidity of our clients’ operations.

Legal opinions:

We prepare technical and legal opinions that guide our clients in strategic and complex decisions, and strengthen business and procedural strategies.

Policy preparation and review:

We assist our clients in preparing and reviewing insurance policies, ensuring that they are aligned with their needs and in compliance with legal requirements.

Pre-litigation activity:

We work strategically to avoid litigation, seeking quick and economically viable legal solutions. We act to defend the interests of creditors and debtors, using, when applicable, alternative dispute resolution methods, such as conciliation, mediation or dispute boards.

Litigation:

We represent our clients before administrative bodies, the Judiciary and Arbitration Courts throughout the country, in cases of high technical complexity and financial importance, both in operational (claims) and corporate matters. With an excellent success rate throughout our history, our strategic and preventive activity is an important tool in the search for successfully defending our clients at all court levels and degrees.

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