Wes Strickland

Wes Strickland, a Shareholder, heads Colodny Fass’ Insurance Regulatory and Corporate Transactions practices.

With nearly two decades of experience with insurance regulatory law and complex corporate transactions, Mr. Strickland provides counsel to both domestic and international insurers and reinsurers, among others.

He represents property and casualty insurers, as well as life and health entities, self-insurance funds and others on a diverse scope of regulatory matters.

Mr. Strickland has supervised multi-state compliance surveys and licensing matters for insurance companies, third party administrators, managing general agents, wholesale brokers, reinsurance intermediaries, pharmacy benefits managers, insurance agencies, life settlement companies, as well as for manufacturers and sellers of service contracts and extended warranties. He routinely handles regulatory issues for insurers, including insurance holding company act compliance, market conduct and financial examinations, company formation, multi-state expansion, corporate amendments, investment limitations, credit for reinsurance analysis, and transactions with affiliates.

He has managed a wide variety of complex corporate and transactional matters for domestic and international insurers, holding companies and investors, including mergers and acquisitions, start-ups, stock offerings, restructurings, mutual holding company conversions, joint ventures and reinsurance transactions. He also prepares and negotiates a wide variety of contracts and agreements, including managing general agent agreements, third party administrator agreements, insurance agency and broker agreements, cost allocation agreements, IT vendor agreements, and joint insurance marketing and affinity marketing agreements.

An experienced practitioner of administrative law in Florida, Mr. Strickland has served as lead counsel and supervised numerous administrative actions before the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, Florida Department of Financial Services and Division of Administrative Hearings involving rule challenges and hearings related to disputes over form and rate filings, and license disciplinary matters, including appeals of those actions.

He also has represented insurers and life settlement companies in trade secret litigation against the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, as well as in declaratory actions involving issues arising under the Florida Insurance Code.

A member of The Florida Bar, Mr. Strickland is a graduate of Florida State University College of Law and Florida State University.