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Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory - USA - Nationwide

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What the Team is Known For

Sidley Austin LLP is a leader in alternative risk transfer, with catastrophe bonds, reinsurance sidecars and life insurance securitization among an impressive range of capabilities in this area. It also fields a strong practice in financing as well as offering significant M&A experience and has worldwide regulatory expertise. The practice is also proficient in advising clients on their most sophisticated and difficult transactions, including those at the cutting edge of the industry.

Work Highlights

  • Sidley Austin represented National Western Life Insurance in its US$1.9 billion all-cash strategic acquisition by an affiliate of Prosperity Life Insurance.

Strengths

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Sidley is well versed in working between jurisdictions, and high-level issues are always resolved quickly.

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The Sidley team is fun to work with and you know they are on your side at the most critical time in a transaction.

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The firm is fast, extremely thorough, and strikes the right balance between conservative/academic and commercial/realistic advice.

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Sidley Austin is extremely knowledgeable, responsive and has excellent lawyers.

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The firm demonstrates not only excellent substantive legal expertise but also spot-on, real-world acumen in navigating novel and thorny issues where there is limited or no precedent.

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Notable Practitioners

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Jonathan J Kelly
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Jonathan J Kelly
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Jonathan Kelly coleads Sidley Austin's global insurance and financial services group and leads the firm's insurance practice in New York and Boston. He is noted for his expertise in high-value insurance M&A and restructuring transactions, and has considerable experience acting for clients across the health sector.

Jonathan Kelly is an outstanding insurance lawyer and has an appreciation for multi-jurisdictional transactions.

Jon Kelly is responsive, practical and in-the-know. He is extremely knowledgeable with domestic and international reinsurance and insurance M&A.

Jon is very commercial and practical in his approach.

He is thoughtful and takes a commercial approach to getting a deal done.

He is technically proficient and extremely experienced.

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Perry Shwachman
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Perry Shwachman
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Perry Shwachman is global co-leader of Sidley Austin's M&A and private equity practice. He has extensive expertise in a range of matters including mergers, acquisitions and reinsurance agreements.

Perry has a tremendous sense of perspective and keeps everything moving.

Perry is easily the strongest in this area. He's very much top of the pile.

Perry Shwachman is in a league of his own when it comes to insurance M&A and is involved in transactions at every stage to ensure nothing is missed. He adds value at every level.

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Amanda Todd
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Amanda Todd
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Amanda Todd is sought after by clients, particularly in the life insurance sector, for her expertise in reinsurance transactions. She co-leads Sidley Austin's global insurance practice and leads the financial institutions group in Chicago and Miami.

Amanda is pragmatic and very knowledgeable.

Amanda is great. She connects us with whoever we need to be connected with.

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Sean M Keyvan
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Sean M Keyvan
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Sean Keyvan leads Sidley Austin's global insurance M&A practice. He is extremely experienced in managing complex transactions as well as advising on regulatory issues in the insurance industry.

Sean is an excellent regulatory and M&A attorney.

Sean is superbly commercial, yet keenly defensive of our positions. He is also creative and thoughtful in terms of negotiating with counterparties.

He is pragmatic, technically strong and has a deep understanding of the insurance market. He has seen a lot.

Sean has a very strong business acumen, a capacity to follow complex business issues, and is a very good listener. He knows when to make his points, but he doesn’t get bogged down on trivial items.

He strikes a good balance between providing legal advice and being commercially aware.

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Jonathan J Kelly
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Jonathan J Kelly
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Perry Shwachman
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Perry Shwachman
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Amanda Todd
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Amanda Todd
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Sean M Keyvan
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Sean M Keyvan
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