Marcella Hill

Marcella focuses her practice on transactions, claims and insurance regulatory law, including:

• Mergers & acquisitions, including the required regulatory approvals
• Joint ventures, transfer of portfolios and corporate reorganizations
• Complex reinsurance structures
• Claims handling and coverage issues
• Formation and licensing of insurance and reinsurance companies, intermediaries and related regulatory and corporate approvals
• All aspects of (re)insurance regulation, compliance, corporate governance and market conduct
• Establishment and review of distributions systems and networks, including structuring arrangements with introducers
• Licensing of foreign reinsurers in Brazil and related regulatory and corporate approvals
• Developing compliance systems and controls, underwriting and operating guidelines
• Insurance and reinsurance product and program design and review
• Compliance, enforcement and disciplinary actions and any regulatory matters before SUSEP

• Marcella is recognized as an "Acritas Star – independently rated lawyer" 2016 - 2021
  • "She has an extensive knowledge of the matter. She is very fast to answer queries. The quality of her work, language, content."
  • "Marcella is a super qualified lawyer with excellent international experience and is very pragmatic. She is committed to the work, to the deadlines, and to the people."

• The Legal 500 Latin America
  2022 - Recommended, Brazil Insurance
  2018-21 - Recommended, Brazil Insurance

Excellence and Relationship

Campos Mello Advogados was the first full-service Brazilian law firm to consistently use the NPS (Net Promoter Score) method. In the first year using the method, the firm achieved grade 83.

• "Insurance Sector Trends: Forecast for 2018 and 2017 Year End Review," Insurance Update, February 5, 2018
• Co-author, Insurance Update – 2015 Year End Review and Forecast for 2016, DLA Piper
• Co-author, Insurance Update – 2016 Year End Review and Forecast for 2017, DLA Piper
• Opinião.Seg Magazine, "The relevance of Compliance programs for the insurance market," 8th edition
• Opinião.Seg Magazine, "New Paths in Risk Sharing Between Insurers and Pension Funds," 14th Edition
• 20 anos da Lei nº 9.613 de 1998 Magazine, "20 years of Law No. 9,613 and anti-money laundering efforts by the Brazilian Insurance market"