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ORPA Legal
  • Practice Areas
  • Our team
  • Why Us ?
  • A Few Key Numbers
  • Recognition
  • Partnership
  • Hiring
  • Contact
  • FR | EN

Financial Lines Insurance

Our firm is regularly retained as monitoring counsel or coverage counsel by French and foreign insurance companies in connection with losses triggering their insurance coverage.

The firm’s areas of involvement include the following types of coverage:

  • Directors and Officers Liability (D&O)
  • Employment Practices Liability (EPL)
  • Insurance covering Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
  • Financial Institution Coverages, Comprehensive Insurance Policies for Banks
  • Errors and Omissions, Professional Liability
  • Insurance Covering Acts of Fraud
  • Warranties and Indemnity Insurance (M&A)

Representative Examples of Services Recently Provided

  • Legal counselling, representation and/or defense in court of:

- primary and/or excess insurers in connection with directors and officers liability proceedings pending in French, U.S., British, Italian and other courts
- a British transporter in connection with a matter involving employer and D&O liability and implicating its French subsidiary
- the French subsidiary of a British banking institution in professional liability litigation matters relating to investments, structured products, etc. (private banking, estate management)
- a high level investment manager in connection with his errors and omissions liability coverage 
- an international insurance company in connection with a liability action against its insured in the Dominican Republic arising out of a significant theft 
- a Luxembourg‑based asset manager in connection with liability coverage for errors or omissions relating to management of various asset portfolios 

  • Drafting of insurance policy language for a range of policies in order to tailor them for the French insurance market: 

- standard business coverage
- coverage for financial institutions
- coverage for privately owned companies and those listed on the stock market
- warranty and indemnity insurance (for both the acquiring company and the company being acquired) 
- insurance covering acts of fraud 

  • Monitoring of D&O liability litigation in Italy on behalf of management of a French financial institution, legal counselling on local application of coverage
     

Practice Areas

Commercial and Banking Dispute Resolution

We represent clients in France and abroad, through all phases of the litigation process—in preliminary expert investigatory proceedings under French procedural rules, in connection with requests for summary or pre‑judgment relief, and in full litigation on the merits. We also handle arbitration and mediation.

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Insurance and Reinsurance

ORPA Legal provides legal advice to its clients in all areas of insurance; it represents and advises them through the investigation and claim‑handling phases and any subsequent litigation or alternative dispute resolution process.

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Financial Lines Insurance

We assist insurance companies in drafting policy language to cover financial institutions and banks and represent them through the claim handling, investigation and dispute resolution process.

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Due diligence

The firm carries out due diligence in the context of business transfers or acquisitions for players in the insurance sector.

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Industrial Accidents

We get involved right from the crisis management phase in order to protect our clients’ interests and assist them in connection with the necessary expert investigations and any court proceedings.

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Product Liability

We have specific experience in handling matters relating to pharmaceutical, electrical, and electronics products.

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Regulatory Work

The law firm Ormen Passemard - ORPA Legal is highly regarded for its extensive experience in handling insurance and reinsurance regulatory matters.

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Construction Litigation

We recently became involved in a great number of construction matters, representing builders, general contractors and property developers.

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Pharmaceutical and Medical Litigation

We represent a number of pharmaceutical companies in products liability matters.

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Cyber Exposures

ORPA Legal provides legal assistance in connection with cyber insurance coverage—both before and after the loss.

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Environmental Litigation

The firm represents clients in connection with environmental losses involving application of the European directive on environmental liability.

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47 rue Dumont d'Urville 75116 - Paris

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ORPA Legal
47 rue Dumont d'Urville
75116 - Paris

Near the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysées

Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m

Partners available 24 hours a day in the event of emergency

Téléphone : +33 1 70 37 39 00
+33 1 70 37 39 00
Subway Station :

Charles de Gaulle - Etoile (Subway Lines 1, 2, 6, RER A)
Kléber (Subway Line 6)

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