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breeve@casselsbrock.com

Telephone: 416 869 5745
Fax: 416 350 6955

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
2100 Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West
Toronto, ON M5H 3C2
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Brian Reeve

Brian is a partner in the Financial Services Group, focusing on the regulation and corporate governance of insurance companies.

Brian has been a special advisor to both the Ontario and Federal Ministries of Finance on insurance matters. Brian has served on the boards of several Canadian insurance companies, as well as being the Chief Agent in Canada for a number of foreign insurers. He has frequently spoken and published papers on various matters relating to insurance and corporate law.

Brian's clients include property and casualty insurers, reinsurers and brokers. He has also advised on the formation of captive insurance companies as well as various types of self-insured and risk retention structures.

Brian's practice involves a variety of different types of work, including mergers and acquisitions, licensing of foreign insurers in Canada, distribution issues and product development.

In addition, Brian has provided advice to a number of Canadian and U.S. life insurance companies as well as various U.S. HMO and Blue Cross organizations with respect to a variety of health insurance issues.

Education

LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School, 1980
M.B.A., York University, 1989
B.A., University of Western Ontario, 1981

Achievements

  • Who's Who Legal: Canada 2011 (Insurance and Reinsurance)
  • The International Who’s Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers  
  • The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers
  • The Best Lawyers in Canada (Insurance Law)
  • Martindale-Hubbell, BV Distinguished™ rating
  • Euromoney Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers

 

Call to the bar

Ontario, 1982

Associations

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Federation of Regulatory Counsel
  • Ontario Bar Association


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