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Elena Coyle

Elena Coyle

USA 2026

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USA

Practice Areas

Elena Coyle is co-head of Skadden’s insurance M&A and reinsurance practices. She advises on a diverse range of complex corporate transactions, reinsurance matters, regulatory representations and strategic initiatives on behalf of insurers in the life and annuity, P&C, health, LTC and surety markets. Ms. Coyle is also a trusted advisor and dealmaker to asset managers and private equity sponsors in acquisitions and investments in the insurance industry, insurtech firms (in particular, in the transition to "full stacked" carriers) and other corporate clients in developing solutions for risk mitigation, including the establishment of captive insurance programs. Ms. Coyle’s deep experience includes mergers, acquisitions and divestitures (both domestic and cross-border), reinsurance, de-SPAC’s, renewal rights transactions, mutual-to-mutual and MHC transactions, intercompany reorganizations and restructurings, sidecars and ILS transactions, and advising clients in evaluating new and emerging transaction structures, including divisions and insurance business transfers.

Professional Memberships

Ms. Coyle serves on Skadden’s Pro Bono Committee and Immigration Impact Group Steering Committee and dedicates substantial time to diverse hiring and professional women’s initiatives.

Personal

J.D., Stanford Law School (Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties); B.A., University of Virginia (With Highest Distinction; Echols Scholar)

Chambers Review

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Chambers Guide to the USA

Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory - New York

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial

Elena Coyle is recognized for her work in complex and high-value insurance and reinsurance transactions. She frequently acts for major insurers and is co-head of the insurance M&A and reinsurance group.

Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory - USA - Nationwide

Band 2
Band 2

Individual Editorial

Elena Coyle co-heads Skadden's insurance M&A and reinsurance practices, and is a recognized presence in the industry. She represents major insurers and investors in complex insurance and reinsurance transactions.

Strengths

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  • Elena's level of expertise and commercial awareness is exceptional.

    Insurance: Transactional & RegulatoryChambers Guide to the USA
  • Elena is extremely strong, technically very good and tactically strategic.

    Insurance: Transactional & RegulatoryChambers Guide to the USA
  • Elena's deep knowledge of the issues insurance companies face is unparalleled. She can span it all, with deep expertise on not just legal, but also the accounting and finance issues that then impact transactions. She is adept at applying a business-savvy lens to her advice.

    Insurance: Transactional & RegulatoryChambers Guide to the USA

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