William D. Latza is engaged in insurance and reinsurance law, principally in the areas of corporate transactions, holding company and financial condition regulation, insurance-related acquisitions and financings, alternative and capital markets risk transfer, discontinued operations and reinsurance transactions.

Mr. Latza is listed in Chambers USA.

Memberships

International Bar Association (Section on Business Law, Committee on Insurance), the American Bar Association (Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Insurance Regulation Law Committee), the New York State Bar Association (Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section), the New York County Lawyers Association (Committee on Insurance), The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on Insurance Law), the Society of Financial Examiners (General Counsel and Member, Executive Committee), the Insurance Regulatory Examiners Society (Certificate of Appreciation 1988) and the International Association of Insurance Receivers (Legal Counsel; Sustaining Member of the Year 1995)

Activities

Author: Copyrights and Trademarks and Patents! Oh, My! (co-author), Best's Review, August 1, 2006; California Dreaming?, (co-author), JTW News, October 2004; The Impact of State Insolvency Laws on Termination and Set-Off Rights in Derivatives Transactions with U.S. Insurance Companies (co-author), Futures & Derivatives Report, June 2003; Securitizations of Insurance Risk, The Examiner, Spring 1998; Insurance Industry Liability-Based Restructuring Mealey’s Litigation Report: Insurance Insolvency, April 22, 1998; Risk Securitization Growth Expected, National Underwriter, Property & Casualty/Risk & Benefits Management Edition/U.S. Reinsurance Report, July 14, 1997; Issues Arising Out of Industry Consolidation, International Insurance Monitor, 1997; A Look at the Arbitration Between Gulf Insurance Co. and Cigna Reinsurance Co., (co-author), Insurance Journal, July 20, 1992; The Pull-Out Panic, (co-author), ReActions, March 1990; Reinsurance, Chapter 14 in Business Insurance Law and Practice Guide, (Matthew Bender, 1989); Collect Call from U.S. Regulators, ReActions, November 1988; All for One, One for All, (co-author), The Review, July 1988; Has delivered more than 60 speeches for top industry and professional groups, including: The Association of Life Insurance Counsel, National Conference of Insurance Legislators, Society of Financial Examiners, American Bar Association, International Association of Insurance Supervisors, St. John’s School of Risk Management (formerly, The College of Insurance), American Council of Life Insurers, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Reinsurance Association of America and National Conference of State Legislatures

Admitted to Practice

New York, 1982; U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, 1983; U.S. Supreme Couty, 2005

Education

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1981

London School of Economics and Political Science, 1977-1978; Graduate Fellowship

B.S., with distinction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1977; Beta Gamma Sigma; Omicron Delta Epsilon