John Hrebec concentrates his practice on mergers and acquisitions in the insurance, reinsurance and managed care industries, insurance holding company act transactions, bulk reinsurance (including indemnity reinsurance and coinsurance, modified coinsurance and assumption reinsurance structures), investments, company governance issues, insurance regulation, general corporate matters, and related regulatory and judicial proceedings.
John’s clients include life and property and casualty stock and mutual insurers and reinsurers, captive insurers and their sponsors, banks, insurance agencies and producers, and financial institutions investing in or financing insurance industry ventures.
Mergers & Acquisitions
John has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, with a particular emphasis in the insurance and managed care industries. His experience includes negotiating and documenting all facets of the following transactions:
- Mergers, acquisitions and divestitures of companies through stock and asset deals;
- Sales and acquisitions of books of insurance businesses (including indemnity reinsurance and coinsurance, modified coinsurance and assumption reinsurance structures); and
- Insurance pooling arrangements.
Insurance: Corporate & Regulatory
John has advised clients in connection with the formation and licensing of insurance companies and the structuring of captive insurance programs. He has represented insurance companies in a wide variety of disputes with policyholders, reinsurers and regulators. He has negotiated reinsurance treaties, agents’ and brokers’ agreements, service contracts and employment agreements.
John has experience in a variety of insurance corporate and regulatory issues, including: analyzing and counseling whether proposed risk funding programs are regulated as insurance, whether proposed commission structures are lawful, whether proposed activities require producer licensing, and whether activities are permissible under holding company legislation; dealing at length with insurance regulators in obtaining necessary approvals for his clients' activities, and counseling clients on a day-to-day basis with their regulatory compliance matters.
- University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1983, with honors
- University of Chicago, J.D., 1988
- U.S. District Court, N.D. Illinois, 1989
- American Bar Association
- Notre Dame Club of Chicago
- Edgewood Valley Country Club