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Sidley is one of only a few global law firms to have a substantial, multidisciplinary practice group dedicated to serving the insurance and financial services industry. We have nearly four decades of experience and a team of more than 70 lawyers devoted to advising participants in the industry, including many of the largest U.S. and international insurance and reinsurance companies, intermediaries, private equity firms, banks and regulatory agencies. In addition, as part of a full-service law firm, we can call upon the resources of experienced lawyers from our many offices around the world in a variety of other practice areas, including securities, global finance, tax, financial institutions regulatory, healthcare, commercial litigation and employee benefits.

“… proficient in advising clients on their most sophisticated and difficult transactions, including those at the cutting edge of the industry …”
Chambers USA 2023, Nationwide Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory

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Our Insurance practice offers extensive experience in a wide range of domestic and international insurance and reinsurance transactions, as well as related regulatory matters. Our experience includes the handling of traditional corporate and financing transactions for the insurance industry, such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations (including demutualizations and mutual holding company conversions), formation and capitalization of new insurance companies, public and private debt and equity financings and complex insurance company investment transactions. In addition, our lawyers have been at the forefront in structuring and handling many of the most novel and innovative transactions being conducted in the industry today, such as redundant life reserve (XXX and AXXX) and embedded value securitizations; catastrophe and catastrophic mortality-linked bonds and derivatives, sidecars and other forms of risk securitization/finance; and the securitization of various insurance products, including funding agreements and life and annuity contracts.