Cynthia R Shoss

Practice Areas

Cynthia is a nationally recognized adviser on insurance regulatory matters, focusing on transformative transactions such as demutualizations, mergers and acquisitions, conversions and other restructurings that involve senior executives and Boards of Directors. She also assists clients with corporate governance, legislation, examinations and investigations, compliance, investments, receiverships and insolvencies, artificial intelligence, and other issues.

For more than 35 years, Cynthia has counseled clients in the various insurance sectors in the US and internationally, including life insurance, and annuities, property/casualty insurance, health insurance, and reinsurance. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, investment bankers, actuaries, strategic and financial investors, insurtech enterprises, brokers, trade associations, state departments of insurance, attorneys general, and other law firms. Her insurance clients have included public companies, mutuals, mutual holding companies, fraternals, reciprocals, and the Lloyd's market. She has authored books and articles and presented at conferences from London to New York to Tokyo on insurance industry issues.

Cynthia was the first woman and second lawyer in private practice in the 100-year history of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel to receive its Buist M. Anderson Distinguished Award for distinguished service to the life insurance bar and industry. In 2018, she was inducted into the Tulane Law School Hall of Fame. Most recently, Cynthia was named a finalist in the “Private Practice – Diversity & Inclusion: Outstanding Contribution” category as part of Chambers’ 2023 DEI awards.