A World-Class Practice with Unparalleled Industry Knowledge

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

The market-leading and multidisciplinary practice has been ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA for over 20 years, where clients note ,“The team at Debevoise is extremely responsive and willing to go the extra mile to meet a deadline. Their work product is always excellent, thoughtful and tailored to meet the client's needs.”

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 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 Global notes, this global team “is one of the go-to firms for really complicated and sophisticated insurance transactional work.”