Alternative Risk & Captives
CDF Partners provides hands-on expertise in captive insurance formation, reinsurance structuring, and segregated portfolio company (SPC) management — grounded in real-world experience leading every stage of development for a fully licensed captive reinsurance company.
Our founder led the creation of Nixer Comp Reinsurance Ltd. SPC, initially domiciled in Bermuda and later redomiciled to Grand Cayman — a process requiring full regulatory engagement, capital compliance, legal restructuring, and operational migration under Cayman’s Segregated Portfolio Company framework.
That experience informs our approach: we understand not only the strategy but the mechanics, governance, and execution necessary to make a captive program successful and sustainable.
CDF Partners works directly with ownership and boards to evaluate feasibility, structure capital, and implement governance frameworks that protect assets and enhance performance.
We also assist carriers, MGAs, and program administrators in designing reinsurance and cell-participation structures that align risk, reward, and control.
Core Capabilities
- Captive feasibility analysis and pro forma development
- Regulatory engagement, licensing, and domicile negotiation
- SPC structuring, redomicile management, and cell creation
- Capitalization planning, reserve adequacy, and surplus strategy
- Fronting and reinsurance program coordination
- Governance framework design and board oversight protocols
- Multi-cell reporting, performance metrics, and reinsurer relations
- Cayman and Bermuda market advisory
Our Perspective
Captive structures succeed when compliance, governance, and operational purpose are aligned.
CDF Partners brings the practical insight of having built and managed a licensed reinsurance entity — from concept through capitalization and migration — helping clients avoid costly missteps and realize the full financial potential of alternative risk.
We don’t just design captives — we’ve lived the process.