Everest Insurance Names Jafari as Director of Alternative Solutions Group

Everest Insurance has named Yashar Jafari as director of the Alternative Solutions Group, where he will lead the newly-formed Tax Liability underwriting team. Jafari will be based out of the company’s New York City office.

Jafari joins Everest after spending eight years in different facets of transactional and mergers and acquisitions tax law. Most recently, he held the position of director of Global Transaction Tax at Alvarez and Marsal, where he was responsible for providing strategic and financial buyers with tax due diligence and planning advice.

He also spent time as a Mergers & Acquisitions Tax manager at KPMG and as a senior consultant of Transaction Tax at Ernst & Young.

Everest Re Group Ltd. is a global provider of reinsurance and insurance, operating for more than 40 years through subsidiaries in the U.S., Europe, Bermuda and other territories. It offers property, casualty and specialty products through its various operating affiliates located in key markets around the world.

Everest Insurance markets property, casualty, specialty and other lines of admitted and non-admitted direct insurance on behalf of Everest Re Group Ltd. and its affiliated companies.

Source: Everest Re Group Ltd.