Insurance law expert Hartley Lefton has commenced with Stikeman Elliott as a partner practising with its national insurance and reinsurance, financial products and services, and mergers and acquisitions groups.
Lefton was formerly head of McCarthy Tétrault’s national insurance and reinsurance group. He also practised as a partner in the firm’s financial institutions group, according to LinkedIn.
He has represented insurers, reinsurers, brokers, investors, insurance adjusters, credit unions, mortgage industry participants, banks, fintech companies, and insurtech companies. He has tackled matters involving the acquisitions and dispositions of insurers, brokers, books of business, the formation and licensing of insurers and intermediaries, the tailoring of products for use in Canada, and licensing.
Moreover, Lefton has worked on issues involving financing, outsourcing, white labelling initiatives, product launches, investment strategy, related party transactions, and joint ventures. He has also handled matters related to distribution, market conduct, compliance, and transactional, commercial, and governance matters fintech and insurtech companies face.
Lefton has negotiated and completed business deals in addition to handling issues related to regulatory compliance, corporate governance, government affairs and public policy, and risk management. According to LinkedIn, his clients include technology start-ups and multi-billion-dollar global financial institutions.
“Insurers and their partners are working through transactions, regulation, and new market entrants all at once. Hartley is expert in each and strengthens our reach and depth across insurance and financial services,” said Stuart Carruthers, a partner in Stikeman Elliott’s national insurance and reinsurance and financial products and services groups, in a statement.
Lexpert ranked Lefton as a repeatedly recommended lawyer in the category of “financial institutions regulation – Ontario.” In addition to his six-year stint at McCarthy Tétrault, he worked with Dentons’ business law and financial services groups, including the banking, insurance, private equity, venture technology, and public policy subgroups.
He also spent over six years at McMillan LLP as a lawyer in the business law group. He operates from Toronto.
Lefton has sat on the advisory board of the Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Committee. He recently chaired the Toronto Parking Authority board; moreover, he was director and secretary of the AboutFace Craniofacial Family Society, a charity catering to people with facial differences and their families.