John E. McPherson

John focuses on insurance regulatory compliance and general business and corporate transaction law involving the insurance industry. John regularly represents insurers and insurance producers before the California Department of Insurance in connection with Holding Company Act compliance, mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, spin-offs of existing operations, agent and broker licensing, rewrite/renewal rights agreements, referral fee arrangements, and insurance company formation, licensing, and reorganization projects. His clients include insurance companies, insurance producers (brokers/agents), Insurtech firms, and other licensees.

In addition, John structures and provides regulatory counsel on a nationwide basis in connection with automobile extended service contract programs and advises a major US airline on its travel insurance program. John also regularly reviews and drafts a broad range of insurance documents, including insurance agent and managing general agent agreements, broker agreements, intercompany management and administration contracts, sub-producer agreements, and stock purchase and asset purchase agreements in connection with sales/purchases of insurance companies and insurance producers.