Insurance

The Debevoise Global Insurance Practice brings decades of experience to the most complex insurance industry transactions, the highest-stakes disputes and the most challenging regulatory engagements.

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Nicholas F. Potter

John M. Vasily

Thought Leadership

Recognition

Ranked as a Band 1 firm for Insurance: Global-wide.

In terms of quality, they are right up there with the best and can do it on both sides of the Atlantic.

—Chambers Global, 2019-2020

The team as a whole works well as a cohesive unit, with excellent client service and deep knowledge of the insurance industry.

—Chambers USA, 2019

The firm has a very strong insurance practice across the Asia-Pacific region, I would hold out the firm as second to none on insurance transactions in the region.

—Chambers Asia-Pacific, 2020

They have a really sharp team that knows the insurance space extremely well.

—Chambers UK, 2020

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The market-leading and multidisciplinary practice won the Chambers USA 2016 Award for Excellence in Insurance and Law360 has named Debevoise Insurance Practice Group of the Year for three consecutive years (2015-2017). The group provides the highest level of capabilities and client service in all markets, and clients in return tell The Legal 500 US that Debevoise is “a top-notch insurance industry practice” that is at the “top of its field.” The team is consistently the first choice for major insurance industry mergers and acquisitions, intricate financings against an evolving regulatory backdrop, restructurings and a host of other transactions. The deep industry and market knowledge that powers the transactional practice also fuels a world-class disputes practice. The Debevoise Global Insurance Practice advises a wide range of industry clients, including major:

insurers;

reinsurers;

asset management firms;

private equity funds and other capital providers;

intermediaries; and

significant industry associations.

The group’s broad and collaborative team of lawyers include leading U.S., English and Hong Kong qualified insurance industry practitioners based in New York, London and Hong Kong, as well as U.S. and locally qualified lawyers elsewhere in Europe and Asia. As Chambers USA notes, this global team “[takes] the lead on many of the most complex of deals in the market, including those with significant cross-border or multijurisdictional aspects.”