Timothy J. Moroney

Timothy Moroney is a partner of Barger & Wolen LLP’s San Francisco office. He has been with the firm since 1999. Mr. Moroney has worked on a wide range of business and insurance litigation and regulatory matters.

Mr. Moroney’s practice focuses on insurance regulatory issues before all state insurance departments, with particular expertise in connection with advising insurance

companies, insurance agencies, banks, lenders, broker-dealers and various other financial institutions in connection with privacy requirements under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and state laws.

Mr. Moroney regularly advises clients on matters including entity formation, licensing, mergers, acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, product development, policy form filings and other regulatory compliance issues. He frequently serves as a guest speaker at conferences and seminars to discuss privacy related topics.

Mr. Moroney’s recent representative matters include:

• Represented large insurer with regulatory filings in California related to securitization of approximately $3 billion block of life insurance policies.
• Represented lender with structure of program of non-recourse premium finance lending in connection with the purchase of life insurance and eventual sale in secondary market.
• Represented large Bank with regulatory filings necessary to disclaim control of insurer in connection with Bank’s acquisition of 17% of the outstanding share of stock of large holding company with insurance company subsidiary.
• Represents large oil company with the structure for its $30 million sale of its wholly-owned subsidiary motor club.
• Advises many insurance companies, banks and other financial institutions with regard to many financial privacy and HIPAA issues, including but not limited to the creation of privacy notices, joint marketing arrangements, vendor and business associate agreements, safeguarding programs, and customer notification programs relating to security breaches.