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Greenberg Traurig, LLPAustin Operating Shareholder
Barry Senterfitt
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Barry Senterfitt

5.0
3 reviews

300 West 6th Street, Suite 2050, Austin, TX 78701

Insurance, Health Care & FDA Practice, Regulatory & Compliance and 2 more

About Barry Senterfitt

Barry Senterfitt focuses his practice on the insurance and managed care industries. His practice includes assisting clients with acquisitions and mergers of insurers, HMOs and insurance agencies; holding company transactions for insurers and HMOs, including state insurance holding company act compliance; HMO formation and licensure; insurance company formation and licensure; redomestications of insurers; demutualizations and other complex corporate reorganizations; financial and reinsurance issues for insurers and HMOs; and plans of rehabilitation for insolvent or troubled insurers.

Barry has experience designing and structuring innovative insurance marketing/distribution systems; acquisitions of insurance charters out of receivership; regulatory issues for life, health and property/casualty insurers and Medicaid and Medicare insurers/HMOs; formations of insurance purchasing cooperatives; risk-based capital requirements for insurers and corporate restructuring relating thereto; insurance asset sales through assumption and portfolio reinsurance; regulatory issues affecting health care provider groups; and product design and approval for insurers and HMOs.

Concentrations

•Insurance regulatory
•Corporate
•Transactional

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, The Best Lawyers in America
•Insurance Law, 2007-2026
•Lawyer of the Year, Insurance Law, Austin, 2023
•Reinsurance Law, 2016-2026
•Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2021-2025
•Team Member, BTI Power Rankings, “The 16 Strongest Firms for ‘Go-To Outside Counsel’ Insurance Work,” 2016
•Listed, Texas' Best Lawyers, 2009-2010
•Listed, World's Leading Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers (8th Ed.)
•Rated, AV Preeminent 5.0 out of 5.0

 

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Areas of Law

  • Insurance
  • Other 4
    • Health Care & FDA Practice
    • Regulatory & Compliance
    • Banking & Financial Services
    • Insurance Regulatory & Transactions

Practice Details

  • Payment Information
    Payment & Cost Features
    Fixed hourly rates
    Fixed fees available
    Accepted Credit Cards
    American Express
  • Firm Information
    Position
    Austin Operating Shareholder
    Firm Name
    Greenberg Traurig, LLP
    Firm Onwership
    Minority Owned
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Experience: Representative Matters: Represented insurance companies, HMOs
    insurance brokers in various transactions, including: Acquisition of Wisconsin
    Texas Medicaid business from Humana.
    Acquisition of GAINSCO County Mutual by Liberty Mutual.
    Acquisition of GlobalHealth by Heritage Health System.
    Represented reorganizations/redomestications including the demutualization of Millers Mutual Insurance Company (conversion to stock company).
    Structuring of fronting arrangements
    unique reinsurance transactions for companies.
    Counseled on formations
    holdings company structures for insurance companies
    HMOs.
    The above representations were h
    led by Mr. Senterfitt prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
    Government Experience: Former Briefing Attorney, Supreme Court of Texas, 1986-1987
  • Additional Links
    http://www.gtlaw.com/People/Barry-Senterfitt

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    1986, Texas
    Memberships

    Professional & Community Involvement

    •fellow, Texas Bar Foundation
    •Member, American Bar Association
    •Former Board Member, SafePlace
    •Former President, CASA of Travis County
    •Former Vice Chair, ABA Committee on the Public Regulation of Insurance Law

    Bar Fellowship
    Texas Bar Foundation

    •Member, American Bar Association

    •Member, Surplus Lines Law Group

    •Former Board Member, SafePlace

    •Former President, CASA of Travis County

    •Former Vice Chair, ABA Committee on the Public Regulation of Insurance Law

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    Texas Tech University School of Law
    Class of 1986
    J.D.
    Honors

    Texas Tech University School of Law
    Class of 1986
    J.D.
    honors
    Other Education
    Accounting, Texas A&M University
    Class of 1983
    B.B.A.
    honors

    Order of the Coif

    Member, Phi Kappa Phi

    Managing Editor, Texas Tech Law Review

    Order of the Coif

    Managing Editor, Texas Tech Law Review

    Member, Phi Kappa Phi
  • Personal Details & History
    Age
    Born in 1960
    San Saba, Texas, 1960

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Austin Operating Shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP
5.0
3 reviews

300 West 6th Street, Suite 2050Austin, TX 78701U.S.A.

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    Barry Senterfitt was admitted in 1986 to the State of Texas.
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