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Clare Swirski
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Clare Swirski is an international consultant in the firm’s London office.
Position
Ms. Swirski has over 20 years’ experience advising financial institutions on the full range of corporate matters, including share and business acquisitions, joint ventures, reinsurance, longevity transactions, distribution agreements and group reorganisations.
Ms. Swirski’s practice focuses on advising insurers and other financial institutions on a range of transactional and regulatory matters.
Ms. Swirski has also advised multinational insurers on key regulatory developments impacting the sector, including general governance issues, SIMR, with-profits regulation, Solvency II and Brexit issues.
Ms. Swirski has played an active role in the development of the regulatory environment for insurers in the UK. She has previously liaised with HM Treasury on changes to Part VII legislation and was a member of a group of City lawyers responding to EIOPA Solvency II consultations. She was also a member of the insurance subgroup of the Financial Markets Law Committee, which most recently considered regulatory issues arising from Brexit.
Memberships
She became a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales in 1994.
Education
Ms. Swirski received her B.Sc. Hons followed by a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics in 1986 from the University of Liverpool, followed by a Fogarty fellowship for post-doctoral work at Stanford University Medical Center, California.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
(Hall of Fame)Debevoise & Plimpton LLP draws upon the wider firm’s strengths in corporate and commercial transactions, particularly that of the New York office, and combines it with the ‘particularly well connected‘ financial institutions team with links to the ‘wider insurance markets‘ to assist insurance clients in high-profile, complex, and cross-border M&A mandates. Clare Swirski is the co-head of the practice, and being both ‘hugely experienced’ in the regulatory and transactional aspects of the insurance sector and ‘very commercially aware‘ to provide excellent advice to players in the insurance market. James Scoville is the other co-head, focusing on complex transactions around insurance companies in addition to securities matters and capital markets transactions.
London > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
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.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Insurance: corporate and regulatory London > Insurance
- Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory