Mike has served as a trusted advisor to insurance and reinsurance clients for more than 17 years. A former partner in the internationally recognized Insurance Regulatory and Transactional Practice of the law firm of Edwards & Angell, Mike provides strategic regulatory and transactional advice to domestic and international clients from all segments of the insurance and reinsurance industry, including insurance and reinsurance companies, producers, brokers, third party administrators, captive insurance companies and risk retention groups. He has extensive experience in assisting clients with a broad range of regulatory matters, including the formation, and licensing of insurers, reinsurers, producers and third party administrators, insurance holding company issues, market conducts examinations, redomestications and multi-jurisdictional regulatory audits. Over the course of his career, he has guided insurers, reinsurers, agencies and brokerages and third party administrators in purchase and sale transactions and investments and the related regulatory matters involved in each transaction. Mike also regularly assists insurers, third party administrators and associations and other groups in the structure and regulatory considerations in the marketing and sale of group and affinity insurance programs. Mike is a member of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel, a national association of attorneys specializing in insurance regulatory law, and serves as a member of the Legislative and Regulatory Committee of the Professional Insurance Marketing Association.