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Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Offices

65 GRESHAM STREET
LONDON
EC2V 7NQ
England
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Clare Swirski

Work Department
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 > Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
Commended for its ‘tremendous technical expertise coupled with unbeatable market knowledge’, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP advises on insurance regulatory matters, with additional experience in handling mandates concerning AIFMD, SFDR and MiFID. Clare Swirski advises multinational insurers on regulatory developments and transactions, and jointly leads the team alongside Patricia Volhard, who acts for private funds on matters including Brexit, AIFMD, MiFID and ESG. Volhard splits her time between the firm’s London, Paris and Frankfurt offices.
London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
(Hall of Fame)Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is appreciated by clients for being ‘strong on financial services regulation and outsourcing regulatory requirements’. On the transactional front, the practice has expertise in M&A and reinsurance matters. Co-head Clare Swirski advises a range of clients of M&A, share and business sales, reinsurance and Solvency II regulation. Fellow co-head Drew Dutton is relied upon by financial institutions, private equity sponsors and pension funds on a range of transactional mandates.
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
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory