Hannah Cary counsels clients on all forms and stages of transactional insurance products.

Hannah leverages her experience representing policyholder clients across a broad range of industries, including software and technology, oil and gas, and renewable energy. She guides private equity funds and strategic acquirors on:

  • Representations and warranty policies (and their overseas counterparts, warranty and indemnity policies), tax policies, contingent-risk policies, and other bespoke insurance solutions, both in the context of transactions and with respect to claims and recovery
  • Negotiating favorable policy language and insurance products for a variety of potential risks
  • Insurance solutions for private equity secondary transactions
  • Insurance-related aspects of corporate and tax equity transactions

She also guides claim processes on behalf of policyholders in claims process on such transactional risk insurance products.

She unlocks Latham’s global platform to help clients navigate complex cross-border transactions.

Hannah distills her experience advising on hundreds of transactional risk policies into practical insight relating to the market terms, players, and practices. She translates her claims-side experience into pragmatic policy negotiations, drawing on her sophisticated understanding of insurers’ claims arguments, practices, and behavior.

Hannah’s recent experience includes representing:

  • Entrust in its acquisition of Onfido, a UK-based cloud and AI-powered identity verification technology company
  • phData in its sale of Catalyst Data Holdings, Inc., a data services provider, to Gryphon Investors
  • Global Infrastructure Partners in its acquisition of Saavi Energía from Actis
  • Occidental Petroleum Corporation in its acquisition of CrownRock, an upstream energy company
  • ArcLight Capital Partners in its US$1.92 billion acquisition of PSEG’s fossil generating portfolio
  • Carlyle in its investment in Seattle Reign FC
  • Pitchford Entertainment in the formation of a new business as well as the acquisition of assets owned by the Magic Castle
  • Shamrock Capital, an investment firm specializing in media, entertainment and other related sectors, in their acquisition of a diverse film, television, and music portfolio from Vine Alternative Investments Group
  • A biotechnology company focused on heart failure management in its sale to a global medical technology company
  • Precision Concepts International in its acquisition of Comar
  • Continuation fund deal with Ares as co-lead investor in Reverence Capital Partners’ US$2 billion-plus recapitalization of Osaic
  • Continuation fund deal with Monogram Capital Management in the formation of MCP Silverado CF, for the purpose of reacquiring Western Smokehouse Partners
  • Paramount Skydance Corporation in the acquisition of The Free Press, an independent subscription media company
  • Cadence in its acquisition of Hexagon’s design and engineering business for approximately €2.7 billion
  • Earthrise Energy in its US$630 million financing for MISO-based solar project
  • Mainsail Partners in its US$45 million growth capital investment in Inn-Flow
  • KKR in its strategic investment in XOi
  • Sallyport Commercial Finance in its sale to Northrim BanCorp
  • Sixth Street Partners in its investment in L+M
  • SunCoke Energy in its acquisition of Phoenix Global
  • Tiger Infrastructure Partners in its investment in Bolder Industries
  • Archrock in its completed acquisition of Natural Gas Compression Systems
  • Menzies Aviation in its US$305 million acquisition of G2
  • Topgolf Callaway Brands in its sale of Jack Wolfskin to a leading sports apparel company in China
  • Siemens in its US$5.1 billion acquisition of Dotmatics
  • Artisan Design Group in its sale to Lowe’s

Bar Qualification

  • California

Education

  • JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 2014
  • BA, George Washington University, 2009
    magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Languages Spoken

  • English