Practice Areas & Industries: Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's network of 24 offices on four continents allows us to provide seamless, integrated advice in nearly every major international market. Our lawyers are recognized as leaders in the insurance regulatory field by legal publications and organizations across the globe, including Chambers, Thomson Financial and American Lawyer.

American insurance clients doing business abroad and European and Asian clients doing business in the US have sought the firm's advice on insurance regulatory and related matters on virtually every kind of matter, from protection of their trading positions to cross-border transactions to the development of multinational strategic initiatives. Our international insurance regulatory practice spans every aspect of insurance regulation.

We were pioneers in the Bermuda, Barbados and Cayman markets, working extensively with Bermuda and other "offshore" insurers and reinsurers. Our European colleagues provide reach, knowledge and industry contacts throughout Europe. We advise on US, EU, UK, French, Russian, Polish, Italian and German insurance regulatory matters. This includes advising on legislative developments and drafting insurance laws for states and national governments, including Russia and other emerging markets. In addition, we have served as counsel to major Canadian insurers in multijurisdictional transactions. Our lawyers in China and Russia provide insurance experience in those countries.

We have a well-established practice in the London insurance market, providing regulatory, compliance, transactional, tax, corporate, insolvency and high stakes litigation/arbitration advice to Lloyd's, the International Underwriting Association of London, and the individual syndicates and underwriting managers. We act as regulatory/legislative counsel for the French Insurance Association regarding US and European matters.