ATLANTA, GA, August 6, 2001 - The international law firm of Lord, Bissell & Brook has significantly strengthened its insurance e-commerce, mergers and acquisitions and regulatory practice with the addition of attorney Brian T. Casey in the firm's Atlanta office, and the announcement that attorney Pat Hatfield, who has recently worked with Casey, will join Lord, Bissell & Brook next week.
Casey, who has represented insurance companies and agencies in a variety of insurance transactional and regulatory matters for the last 14 years, and spent the last four years building a national insurance e-commerce and technology practice as a partner at his former firm, noted, "Lord, Bissell & Brook is one of the most highly respected firms in the country in the corporate and regulatory insurance arena and is an excellent fit for our team's focus on insurance and technology matters. Now that the Internet-based technology startup phenomenon has moved e-commerce through its initial shake-out phase, we have seen our traditional insurance company and distribution partner clients beginning to embrace the application of new technologies to service their policyholders, agents and reinsurers."
Casey will also continue his mergers and acquisitions, regulatory, tax and privacy practice, which are also primarily focused in the insurance and financial services industries.
Hatfield is a former vice president and senior counsel of Mynd (formerly known as Policy Management Systems Corporation), a $700 million dollar company providing software and technology-related services to the global insurance community. Mynd was acquired last year by Computer Science Corporation. Hatfield's accomplishments at Mynd include more than 20 multi-million dollar acquisitions and significant corporate divestitures including domestic and international outsourcing transactions. He has created a variety of joint ventures, domestic specialty line insurance companies and new technology company investments.
Casey, who has known and worked with Hatfield for years, said, "Pat is an invaluable part of our insurance e-commerce team, which is expanding rapidly with the convergence of the U.S. financial services industries. This growing market is being driven by complex issues such as electronic signatures, privacy disputes and data ownership and protection concerns.”
Casey added, “Pat’s many strengths include his experience in helping lead a technology company that specifically serves the insurance industry, and his skills are complementary to our other e-commerce lawyers who come from the regulatory and transactional side of the insurance business."
Mike Athans, the partner-in-charge of Lord, Bissell & Brook’s Atlanta office, said, “Brian and Pat are two valuable additions to the team of corporate lawyers we are assembling in Atlanta. They join Allison Wade, Jim Comerford and other corporate attorneys who will provide a full range of corporate services to our clients.”