Thomas F. Morante, Author at Business Law Today from ABA

ABOUT

Tom Morante is Senior Counsel at Carlton Fields, For more than 30 years, he has counseled clients in U.S. and foreign insurance regulatory, compliance, and transactional matters. Tom’s clients rely on him to help them navigate an increasingly complex global regulatory and technology-driven environment. Tom advises insurance and reinsurance companies; captive insurers; insurance agents, brokers, and wholesalers; financial institutions; and investment funds and fund managers. His clients include businesses operating in the United States and abroad.

Tom handles matters involving life and annuities, health, property and casualty and business interruption coverage, extended warranty, representations and warranties, commercial general liability, title, data privacy and cyber risk, directors and officers, surplus lines, parametric, crop, credit, and political risk insurance. In addition, companies in numerous industries have sought Tom’s counsel on complex U.S. and foreign regulatory and transactional matters.

Collaborating with foreign law firms around the world, Tom also handles regulatory compliance, transactional, and enforcement matters abroad. He is fluent in Spanish and has studied in Colombia, Mexico, and Spain. Insurance clients regularly ask Tom to assist in the development of offshore life insurance, annuities, and investment products in Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, and other jurisdictions. He provides counsel on the foreign laws implicated in the distribution and cross-border sale of insurance products, with an emphasis on Latin America and Asia.

Tom’s representative insurance matters include domestic and foreign insurance company formation and authorization, mergers and acquisitions and sale of policy portfolios, captive insurance company formation, and policy contract drafting and coverage analysis. In addition, he handles insurance agent, agency, managing general agent, and third-party administrator licensing; advising on sales practices such as digital marketing, insurtech transactions, fronting and reinsurance transactions, structuring offshore private placement life insurance (PPLI) and private placement variable annuities (PPVA); structuring insurance dedicated funds; and cybersecurity and data privacy compliance.

Tom also advises insurance clients with respect to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) regulations, the USA Patriot Act and foreign country anti-money laundering laws, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and foreign anti-corruption legislation. Further, Tom counsels clients on the financial services chapter of the USMCA, which replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

Tom chairs Carlton Fields’ International Insurance Regulatory Team. He also chairs the ABA Business Law Section’s International Coordinating Committee, and serves on the Editorial Board of the Section’s “The Business Lawyer” and on the Section’s Marketing Board. Tom also is a member of the board of advisors of Inter-American Dialogue’s Financial Services Advisor publication.