Ms. Watson has 17 years of experience in insurance related mergers and acquisitions taxation. She has performed restructurings, due diligence reviews of multi-national targets, has consulted with clients on global and domestic acquisition and divestiture planning, demutualizations, reinsurance and has assisted both buyers and sellers in evaluating the tax impacts and purchase price considerations of structuring taxable and tax free transactions for both domestic and foreign targets and intercompany transactions.

Christine has worked extensively with both corporate and private equity clients across the lifecycle of a transaction and in many industries. She has experience with health insurers, non-stock (blue, mutual, tax exempt) companies, life and property and casualty insurance companies, captive insurance company arrangements, warranty companies, health insurers, and experience with foreign and domestic insurance company structuring, reinsurance tax issues, and insurance company permanent establishment considerations.

Additionally, Christine has experience with insurance and noninsurance U.S. consolidated tax return and GAAP and statutory tax provision issues, as well as consulting on issues surrounding the issuance and taxation of debt obligations.

Christine has co-authored an article on the taxation of captive insurance companies appearing in the Journal of Corporate Taxation and is a frequent speaker on M&A at industry tax conferences including the Insurance Tax Conference and the Blue Cross/Blue Shield National Tax Conference.

Ms. Watson was awarded a BBA in accounting from the University of Georgia – Terry College of Business. She earned an MACC in tax from the University of Georgia – J. M. Tull School of Accounting. Christine is a CPA licensed in New York and Georgia. She is a member of the AICPA.