About

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Our international team provides clients with practical and efficient legal solutions for the unique challenges and complexities of insurance and reinsurance. With more than 100 years of experience in insurance law, we help clients succeed as they face new market forces, emerging risks, and evolving regulations. We provide clients with a comprehensive approach, led by attorneys who collaborate to address any regulatory, transactional, or litigation need our insurance and reinsurance clients may have.

Our team includes attorneys with industry-specific experience in a variety of practice areas, from antitrust, corporate finance, and tax to intellectual property, privacy and cybersecurity, and employment law. As one of the few firms with broad capabilities and experience in multistate and international insurance transactions and regulation, we provide practical guidance and insights into the many issues associated with mergers, dispositions, joint ventures, and acquisitions of insurance companies, brokerages, and their insurance-related assets and liabilities. We also structure, document, negotiate, and close insurance and reinsurance transactions of various kinds and complexity.

We represent a wide variety of clients in the insurance industry — from publicly traded, international insurers and reinsurers to investment banks, fintechs, and family-owned insurance agencies. Our experience spans both property and casualty as well as life, accident, and health lines of business.

Chambers Review

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Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory - Illinois

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What the Team is Known For

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP demonstrates expertise in a broad array of transactional, regulatory and reinsurance matters. It provides counsel to clients on high-stakes litigation including coverage disputes and mass tort claims as well as life and property/casualty reinsurance matters.

Work Highlights

  • The firm represented Global Reinsurance Corporation of America in a reinsurance lawsuit.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Nick J DiGiovanni
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Nick J DiGiovanni
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Band 1
Nick DiGiovanni is considered a top litigator and offers significant breadth of experience representing reinsurers in complex disputes. His expertise includes class actions and arbitration proceedings.

He is communicative and responsive to our requests. He's a skilled advocate who has a very strong courtroom presence.

Nick handles complexity and high value well. He has a good grasp of complexities and how to unpack these and provide analysis to give the best advice.

Nick is a recognized leader in reinsurance and has been for decades. He is greatly experienced and one of the most persuasive advocates I have ever worked with.

Jon Biasetti
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Jon Biasetti
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Band 3
Jon Biasetti assists domestic and international clients with the insurance aspects of mergers, acquisitions and sales, frequently involving NYSE-listed companies.
Paige D Waters
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Paige D Waters
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Paige Waters brings significant expertise advising insurers and reinsurers in a variety of transactional, regulation and insolvency matters.

Paige is one of the best in the industry at helping companies with thorny regulatory matters around the country.

Paige has a good perspective on legal issues but also has good commercial awareness.

Andrea Verney Kerstein
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Andrea Verney Kerstein
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Up and Coming

Andrea Verney Kerstein is and up-and-coming partner with experience handling regulatory issues for corporate clients.

Andrea is an up-and-coming star in world of reinsurance.

Ranked Lawyers at
Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

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Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance

Nick J DiGiovanni
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Nick J DiGiovanni
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Band 1
Andrea Verney Kerstein
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Andrea Verney Kerstein
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Up and Coming
Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory

Jon Biasetti
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Jon Biasetti
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Band 3
Paige D Waters
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Paige D Waters
3
Band 3

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