James R Dwyer

Practice Areas

Over the course of his career, Jim Dwyer has advised on some of the largest mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, reinsurance transactions and corporate restructurings in the insurance industry. Jim has represented industry-leading life and property and casualty companies, their boards of directors and senior executive leadership on the full range of insurance transactional, corporate and regulatory matters, including transformative company sales, mergers and acquisitions, the disposition of blocks of business and operating divisions by reinsurance, loss portfolio transfers, demutualizations and complex corporate restructurings, strategic reviews of insurance businesses in contemplation of a potential merger, sale or repositioning, establishing international insurance underwriting and marketing facilities, capital maintenance reinsurance transactions, financings and securitizations, business transition and renewal rights transactions, Insurtech roll-outs of digital marketing and underwriting platforms, collateral protection arrangements, insurance holding company act transactions and compliance, corporate governance and general corporate matters and related regulatory and judicial proceedings. Jim has repeatedly been recognized by multiple organizations as a leading practitioner in the US and globally for his work on high-value insurance transactional, regulatory and financing matters.