Practice Areas & Industries: Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP

Practice/Industry Group Overview

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has a long-established reputation for its work in the global insurance and reinsurance industry. Our network of 24 offices on four continents allows us to support our clients wherever their disputes arise and to provide seamless, integrated advice in nearly every major international market.

For decades, our insurance litigators have been recognized for their experience in litigation and arbitrations involving the insurance industry. We represent major United States, London Market and European insurers and reinsurers in coverage disputes and commercial litigation.

We are among the leading lawyers for the London insurance market, providing litigation/arbitration advice in high stakes cases to Lloyd's, a large number of London-based insurance companies, the International Underwriting Association of London, and individual syndicates and underwriting managers. We were pioneers in the Bermuda, Barbados and Cayman markets and continue to work extensively with Bermuda and other "offshore" insurers and reinsurers. We have also served as counsel to major Canadian insurers and to insurance industry clients in China and Russia.

We represent clients in some of the world's largest and most complex insurance and reinsurance investigations and disputes, often with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake. These disputes encompass all types of insurance and reinsurance and every kind of underlying risk. We also have in-depth experience with disputes arising under alternative risk transfer arrangements such as catastrophe bonds, side cars and Triple XXX securitization vehicles. Our lawyers are based in New York, London, Washington, Paris and Los Angeles, and work seamlessly to provide our clients with solutions throughout the world. We are frequently called upon to handle our clients' most challenging and sophisticated matters, complex commercial and international litigation and arbitrations, coverage disputes, class actions, antitrust matters, white-collar crime investigations and securities litigation involving insurers and reinsurers.

In annual surveys of the industry by Reactions  magazine, our lawyers are the most often cited by clients asked to nominate the best. Clients have commented on "the firm's dynamism, client focus, efficiency, rapidity and worldwide network." We were voted "Reinsurance/Insurance Law Firm of the Year" by Reactions each year from 2002 through 2007.