Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Insurance: Non-Contentious

Jeremy Watson is a corporate partner in the Insurance Transactions & Regulatory and Financial Institutions Practice Groups. Jeremy’s practice focuses on a variety of transactional and regulatory matters involving the insurance and financial services industries. He regularly represents insurance companies, private equity firms, asset managers, insurance producers and brokers and other industry participants in connection with mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, the formation and capitalization of insurance and reinsurance companies and related ventures (including sidecars and other alternative capital vehicles) and other strategic investment transactions. Jeremy also advises clients with respect to the regulation of insurance holding company systems and reinsurance arrangements and other regulatory, capital and governance matters.

In 2021, Jeremy was named by The National Law Journal to its inaugural list of “Insurance Law Trailblazers,” which profiles a select group of leading innovators in the insurance industry, and was named among the BTI Consulting Group’s “M&A Client Service All-Stars.”

Former Partner, Sidley Austin LLP

Valparaiso University School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude 2006

University of Phoenix, B.S., 2000