Rehana Box is a partner in our corporate practice specialising in insurance
Rehana is a pre-eminent insurance lawyer, highly regarded globally and boasting over 30 years' experience. Co-head of our global insurance industry group, Rehana's roles acting for insurers, intermediaries and insureds, as well as placement of Ashurst's own global insurance program, gives her unparalleled insight of the insurance industry and its issues and challenges.
Rehana advises general and life insurers and reinsurers on regulatory compliance, establishing Australian insurance operations, reinsurance, distribution agreements, outsourcing and policy wordings.
She has advised on major share and asset sales, privatisations, IPOs and portfolio transfers for both life and general insurers.
Rehana also advises governments and corporates on insurances for acquisition, sustainment infrastructure, construction and general corporate risks. This includes drafting contractual insurance requirements; auditing compliance with such requirements and assisting with placing and negotiating insurances and assessing their appropriateness. She also assists with developing alternative risks management solutions to insurance, including captive insurance arrangements and discretionary and non-discretionary mutuals.
Rehana has particular expertise in directors' & officers' liability insurance and indemnities, cyber insurance, environmental insurances, marine and aviation insurances and warranty and indemnity insurance.
Rehana is a thought leader within the industry more generally, sitting on the national committee of the Australian Professional Indemnity Association, a board member of PARIMA, and a member of the Financial Sector Association Life Insurance Group. She is the NSW editor of the Insurance Law Bulletin, a co-editor of Wickens on Life Insurance and the author of the warranty and indemnity insurance chapter in Practical Law Australia.