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Law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy after failing to find a merger partner and will now seek to liquidate its business according to news reports. It signals the end of the saga for the stricken law firm and will be the largest law firm collapse in history. Rumours had been […]

Another lawyer partner with experience in the insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond space has left Dewey & LeBoeuf for competitor Meyer Brown. Richard Spitzer joins Mayer Brown’s New York office as a partner in the Insurance Finance Group and the Banking & Finance practice. He joins a colleague Stephen Rooney who left Dewey for Mayer […]

Another high-profile partner with significant insurance-linked securities experience from law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf has moved on from the firm to join one of their competitors. Just last month a team of ILS and catastrophe bond focused structured finance lawyers left the firm for competitor Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Now Mayer Brown have announced that […]

The exodus of lawyers with experience in reinsurance, insurance-linked securities and catastrophe bond transactions from Dewey & LeBoeuf is continuing with the latest moving across to DLA Piper. DLA Piper announced the appointment of Prakash Paran to their London office as a partner in the Corporate group and member of the global Insurance and Reinsurance […]

Global law firm Mayer Brown has hired Jay Kallas, a lawyer with experience in catastrophe bonds, collateralized reinsurance and other capital market-related areas of risk transfer, as counsel in its Global Insurance Industry Group and Corporate & Securities.

The last seven days saw another busy week of news and insight for the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market here on Artemis. Also last week, the Atlantic hurricane season has now officially begun and you can follow its development on our dedicated 2012 Hurricane Season page. Here are the ten articles which received the […]

Law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher have published a client memo which pertains to insurance-linked securities and the rules regarding fraud under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Section 10(b) and particularly Rule 10b-5. Willkie Farr & Gallagher recently bolstered their ILS and reinsurance legal team with the hire of a number of partners from […]

The last week has featured a lot of coverage of the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market during Q1 and discussions of where the market is heading through the rest of 2o12. Generally the sentiment is positive and this year is expected to be a strong one for ILS and cat bonds. Also, another cat […]

It’s been another busy week for news in the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market. Thoughts at this time of year turn to the impending U.S. hurricane season and the mid-year renewals shortly after. No new cat bond deals began marketing in the last seven days, but investors continue to discuss what they see as […]

Law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher (WFG) have hired a team of partners and lawyers from rival Dewey & LeBoeuf who bring with them extensive experience in the insurance-linked securities, alternative risk transfer and reinsurance / capital markets convergence area. Dewey & LeBoeuf have been dogged by rumours of issues and departures from the firm […]