Jane Boisseau

Jane Boisseau

Jane Boisseau is co-chair of the firm's Insurance Regulatory Department and a member of the firm's Executive Committee, with substantial experience in a variety of insurance regulatory and transactional matters. These include corporate and business restructurings in the life insurance, property-casualty insurance and reinsurance industries. She has been the principal advisor on restructurings, including stock and asset sales, both in the US and abroad. In addition, Ms. Boisseau has been actively involved in merger and acquisition transactions in the insurance and reinsurance industries, involving a variety of insurance entities, including stock and mutual insurers and reciprocals. Other reorganizations include creation and operation of run-off units, demutualizations and US branch conversions.

Ms. Boisseau regularly provides regulatory and corporate advice in such areas as government and regulatory investigations and inquiries, assumption/novation reinsurance, retroactive reinsurance, insurer responses to government subpoenas and other inquiries, regulatory issues involving e-commerce and Web site design, investment law issues, redomestications, surplus lines issues, company formation and licensing, agency licensing issues, examination issues and holding company act compliance. She also provides issuers and underwriters with regulatory advice in connection with capital raising and corporate financial transactions, including surplus notes, debt and equity offerings, and asset securitizations.

Selected Activities

· Speaker, "Trouble in the Financial Services Sector & An Overview of The Current M&A Environment ," at the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) "A Guide to Banking and Financial Services Law and Regulation 2008" Program (December 10, 2008).

· Speaker, "Defining the Organizational Landscape," at the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) "A Guide to Banking and Financial Services Law and Regulation 2008" Program (December 10, 2008).

· Speaker, "State Insurance Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis," at the Directors Roundtable Program on "Opportunities & Challenges Facing the Insurance Industry During the Financial Crisis" (October 28, 2008).

· Panelist with Scott Rothstein, Executive Director, New York State Commission to Modernize the Regulation of Financial Services, on "Principles-Based Regulation," at the 2008 Annual Conference (May 28, 2008) of the New York Insurance Association (NYIA).

· Moderator, Panel on "International Growth-Opportunities and Challenges" at "The Eighteenth Annual Executive Conference for the Property-Casualty Industry," with Timothy E. Feige, Co-President, Prudential International Insurance; William Toppeta, Presidential of MetLife International, Inc.; and Greg Boyko, Senior Vice President, Business Development, The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (December 7, 2007).

· Speaker, "Defining the Organizational Landscape" at the Practising Law Institute's (PLI) "Understanding Complex Financial Institutions 2007 Program" (December 5, 2007).

· Moderator, Panel on "Balancing the Need for Effective Regulation and Innovation " at "The Nineteenth Annual Executive Conference for the Property-Casualty Industry," with Eric Dinallo, Superintendent, New York State Insurance Department; Tony Brooke-Taylor, Head of Wholesale Insurance Department, Financial Services Authority; and Michael T. McRaith, Director, Illinois Department of Financial & Professional Regulation, Division of Insurance (November 9, 2007).

· Panelist with Governor Frank Keating, President and CEO of American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI); Superintendent Alessandro Iuppa, President of National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC); and Jose Montemayor, Principal of Black Diamond Capital Partners and Former Commissioner of Insurance, State of Texas, on "Legislative and Regulatory Initiatives" at "The Seventeenth Annual Executive Conference for the Life Insurance Industry" (December 15, 2006).

· Moderator with Governor Marc Racicot, President of American Insurance Association, and Superintendent Howard Mills, New York Insurance Department, on "How 2006 Market Events and Elections Will Impact the P/C Insurance Business" at "The Eighteenth Annual Executive Conference for the Property-Casualty Industry" (November 17, 2006).

· Panelist with Ernst Csiszar, President and CEO, Property Casualty, Insurance Association of America (PCI); Representative Craig Eiland, Immediate Past President of National Conference of Insurance Legislators; and Jose Montemayor, Principal, Black Diamond Capital Partners and Former Commissioner of Insurance, State of Texas, on "2007 State Legislative and Industry Agendas Beyond Catastrophes and Terrorism Issues" at "The Eighteenth Annual Executive Conference for the Property-Casualty Industry" (November 17, 2006).

· Moderator, 2006 Run-Off Symposium "In A Perfect World."

· Panelist with Governor Frank Keating, President and CEO, American Council of Life Insurers; Superintendent Howard D. Mills, New York Department of Insurance; and Jose Montemayor, Former Commissioner of Insurance, State of Texas on "Legislative and Regulatory Developments" at "The Sixteenth Annual Executive Conference for the Life Insurance Industry" (December 8, 2005).

· Moderator, Panel on "Legislative Reforms-CEOs Discuss the Issues at "The Seventeenth Annual Executive Conference for the Property-Casualty Industry," with Edmund F. Kelly, Stephen W. Lilienthal and Michael S. McGavick, chief executive officers of Liberty Mutual Group, CNA Insurance Companies and Safeco Corporation, respectively (November 17, 2005).

· Moderator, 2005 Run-Off Symposium "Solvent Run-Off Business: Should U.S. Regulators Support It?" Presentation given on "Overview of Current Laws Facilitating and Impeding Solvent Run-Off."

· Co-chair, "Regulatory Compliance for the Insurance Industry." Conference held in February 2005. Presentation given at conference on "New Regulations, New Responsibilities: What Compliance Means Now."

· Speaker, "How Regulators Will Respond to a Global Insurance Marketplace" at 2004 Life & Property/Casualty Insurance Industry Symposium: Conference for Senior Insurance Industry Executives.

· Speaker, "What Are the Implications of Doing Business Online?" at Insurance E-Commerce seminar "On-Line Regulatory Issues: Licensing/Compensation/Agent Issues" (October 2000).

· Speaker, "Regulatory and Legal Aspects of Internet Insurance Business" at Cyber Insurance 2000 seminar (January 1998).

Awards and Recognitions

· Chambers USA - Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory, New York (2005-2008)

· YWCA Academy of Women Leaders Award (2006)