Sean is the managing partner of Walker Sorensen LLP. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at one of Canada’s national law firms. He regularly acts for insurers, reinsurers, agents, brokers, managing general agents, third party administrators and other stakeholders, providing insurance regulatory, corporate governance, transactional and general corporate commercial advice. He assists insurers and group sponsors with negotiating and establishing the terms of sponsored affinity insurance programs and advises insurers and intermediaries on agent/broker agreements. Other examples of recent work include acting for the vendors in a transaction involving the sale of a national managing general agent to a Canadian financial institution and acting for insurers in connection with assumption reinsurance transactions. Sean regularly deals with Canada’s federal insurance regulator, the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions, as well as provincial insurance regulators. He has assisted a number of clients that have established insurance company subsidiaries or branch offices in Canada. Recognized as a Consistently Recommended practitioner in TheCanadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
