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Stuart Carruthers is a partner and member of the Insurance & Reinsurance, Financial Products & Services, and Mergers & Acquisitions Groups. He is widely recognized as a pre-eminent transactional, commercial, governance and regulatory advisor to insurance and reinsurance companies and brokers in Canada. He also advises on other international private mergers and acquisitions transactions and commercial matters. Stuart is recognized in Chambers Canada 2018 as a Band 1 ranked lawyer in Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory, with clients noting he is 'an exceptional insurance lawyer' who is viewed as 'one of the foremost experts in Canada, he's extremely knowledgeable, a great person to deal with and good at developing strategies to deal with issues as they arise.' He is the only Canadian insurance corporate/regulatory counsel recognized in the highest categories in all of Chambers, Who’s Who, IFLR, Legal 500, Acritas and Legal Media Group. Stuart has particular expertise in insurance, reinsurance and related financial services transactions and regulatory matters, including acquisitions and dispositions of insurers and books of business, formation and licensing of insurers and intermediaries, financing transactions, outsourcing transactions, white labelling initiatives and advice on a broad range of distribution, market conduct, compliance and other regulatory matters. He has acted on more than 25 completed insurance company sales in Canada, believed to be the most of any active practitioner. He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of Butterworths’/LexisNexis’ quarterly legal journal Canadian Insurance Regulation Reporter, the leading Canadian publication in the field.