England - London • Corporate and commercial
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Clare Swirski, who acts for insurers and other financial institutions on a broad range of transactional and regulatory mandates, jointly leads the team at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP alongside Patricia Volhard, who splits her time between the firm’s London and Frankfurt offices and focuses on EU regulatory issues. Key clients include UK, EU and US-based fund managers, investment managers and insurers.
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Testimonials
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‘Patricia Volhard is excellent, commercial, committed, helpful and extremely knowledgeable.’
'John Young is very good.'
'The regulatory team integrates seamlessly with our funds team, which is very helpful.'
Key clients
- American International Group
- Covéa Mutual Insurance Group
- HarbourVest Partners
- Exponent Private Equity
- LCM Partners
Work highlights
- Advising AIG in the separation of its life and retirement business from its P&C business and on the all cash sale of a 9.9% equity stake in its life and retirement business to Blackstone and the related strategic asset management relationship for a portion of the life and retirement investment portfolio.
- Providing international transactional and regulatory advice to the Covéa group in its US$9bn acquisition of PartnerRe (following acting in the same capacity in the same transaction terminated in 2020).
- Advising on numerous aspects of EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) in the context of various HarbourVest fund strategies.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Patricia Volhard, Clare Swirski