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McDermott Will & Emery LLP Offices
THE MCDERMOTT BUILDING, 500 NORTH CAPITOL STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, DC 20001-1531
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Ryan Smethurst
Work Department
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Position
Ryan S. Smethurst is co-head of McDermott’s Insurance Litigation & Counseling Team. He has tried numerous insurance coverage cases to judges and juries, has litigated insurance coverage appeals presenting questions of first impression, and has arbitrated reinsurance disputes to final award. For nearly two decades, Ryan has represented insurers in insurance coverage litigation and claims disputes with respect to their most difficult and high-profile exposures, including more than 11,000 personal injury actions against the City of New York and 140 of its contractors in In re World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation; approximately 750 childhood sexual abuse cases against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and other Roman Catholic, Episcopal and youth organizations nationwide; and nine-figure environmental and asbestos liabilities.
Please visit McDermott website for full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/smethurst-ryan-s/
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
The insurance practice at McDermott Will & Emery LLP
helps its broad client base, which includes prominent names in the industry, ‘achieve positive, practical outcomes that make long term sense’. The team handles contentious insurance coverage litigation, reinsurance disputes and offers regulatory advice and representation. Of note is its expertise in captive insurance and risk retention group matters as well as in the insurtech sector. The team is led by Ryan Smethurst, who has a wealth of trial and appellate experience, and Margaret Warner
, ‘an outstanding litigator and strategist‘ in Washington DC together with Jane Byrne in New York, who advises clients in high-value coverage and transactional disputes as well as reinsurance litigation and arbitration.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Industry focus > Healthcare: health insurers
- Industry focus > Healthcare: service providers
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Energy regulation: electric power
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Tax > Financial products
- Industry focus > Healthcare: life sciences
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Industry focus > Insurance: non-contentious
- International Trade > International trade
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions): defense
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: electric power
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending