TALLAHASSEE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veteran insurance attorney Nate Wesley “Wes” Strickland has joined Colodny, Fass Talenfeld, Karlinsky, Abate & Webb as a Partner to head the Firm’s Insurance Regulatory practice in Tallahassee.
Mr. Strickland, a member of both the Florida Bar and the American Bar Association, has nearly two decades of experience with insurance regulatory law and complex corporate transactions.
“Our Firm has experienced tremendous growth during the past decade. It’s no coincidence that our clients are expanding with us--literally into all 50 states,” Colodny, Fass Talenfeld, Karlinsky, Abate & Webb Managing Partner Mike Colodny said. “Wes Strickland’s vast experience and industry relationships provides heavyweight infrastructure to handle our expanding Tallahassee insurance regulatory practice.”
Formerly a Partner with a large, national law firm, Mr. Strickland counsels property and casualty, as well as life and health insurers, reinsurers, self-insurance funds, third-party administrators, managing general agents and others on a diverse scope of regulatory matters, such as financial and market conduct examinations, holding company issues and multi-state regulatory compliance. He has managed a wide variety of complex corporate and transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, start-ups, stock offerings, restructurings, mutual holding company conversions, joint ventures and reinsurance transactions. In addition to providing legal guidance to various specialized businesses that are subject to regulation as insurance, he also has experience with agent and agency regulatory compliance, extended warranties, service contracts and life settlements.
“More capital is currently focused on Florida’s insurance industry than at any other time in recent memory,” Mr. Strickland said. “With Florida playing a key role in nationwide insurance regulation, coupled with the expansion opportunities taking place here, I am looking forward to working with the nationally known Colodny firm at the heart of it all.”
He is a graduate of Florida State University College of Law and Florida State University.
