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Experience
Thomas Kelly is a corporate partner and Chair for the Americas of the firm’s Insurance Industry Group and has represented insurance companies in a broad range of capital markets and M&A transactions. Chambers USA 2010 recommends Mr. Kelly as a leading insurance transactional and regulatory lawyer. Clients say he “really knows how to bring out the best in his team” (2009) and is a “technically superior lawyer - he knows the law but can see the big picture, and focuses on the client’s needs. If someone had a corporate bet-the-company problem, he’d be at the top of your list every time” (2008). He has acted as company counsel on several of the major US life insurer demutualizations and was named a 2002 “Dealmaker of the Year” by The American Lawyer for his work on the IPO and demutualization of Principal Financial Group, Inc.
Mr. Kelly has served as a member of the Insurance Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and was a major contributor to the book Modern Investment Management and the Prudent Man Rule (Oxford University Press, 1986) written by Debevoise partner Bevis Longstreth. Mr. Kelly is a member of the boards of directors of The Royal Oak Foundation and Symphony Space and a member of the Investment Committee of the Social Science Research Council.
Mr. Kelly joined the firm in 1984 and became a partner in 1993. He received his A.B. cum laude from Columbia University in 1979 and his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1983, where he was a member of the Harvard Law Review. Mr. Kelly served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Eugene H. Nickerson, US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, from 1983-1984.
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Language(s)
English
Bar Admissions
New York
Education
Columbia University,
1979,
A.B.
Harvard Law School,
1983,
J.D.
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