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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Offices
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NEW YORK, NY 10017-3954
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Mrs Mary Beth Forshaw
Work Department
Litigation/Insurance and Reinsurance
Position
Commercial litigator with deep experience representing insurers and reinsurers in coverage, business practice and bankruptcy litigation and arbitration in the U.S. and globally. Representations include Chubb in Boy Scouts bankruptcy, Royal in multi-billion dollar case against GM; Travelers in complex cases against Northrop Grumman, Lincoln Electric, Goodyear, and ACandS; various Berkshire Hathaway insurers in high profile cases, including against Coca Cola and Colgate; Hanwha in merger-related arbitration against Korea Life; and captive insurer in multiple reinsurance arbitrations involving flooding-related property damage.
Career
Joined the Firm in 1989. Nine term member of the Executive Committee and former Co-Administrative Partner of the Firm.
Education
Yale Law School (J.D., 1989); Barnard College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1984)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
(Hall of Fame)In addition to advising clients on issues ranging from data breaches to reinsurance collection, the team at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP handles disputes in state and federal courts across the United States. This includes high-profile coverage disputes as well as complex commercial litigation such as Medicare fraud allegations brought against the insurance industry. The contentious practice is augmented by a strong corporate practice on behalf of insurers. Leading the team is ‘brilliant‘ insurance expert Mary Beth Forshaw
together with co-chairs of the global litigation department Jonathan K. Youngwood and Lynn K. Neuner, a trusted advisor of key client Travelers. While Susannah Geltman left the firm in December 2021, the bench also includes Bryce Friedman, who contributes strengths in allegations of fraud and False Claims Act violations and Joshua Polster, who defends against claims relating to biometric privacy violations. Counsel Summer Craig is a notable up-and-comer. All lawyers are based in New York.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame - United States > Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Insurance: advice to insurers - United States > Industry focus
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Industry focus > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Industry focus > Insurance: advice to insurers
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: electric power
- Industry focus > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Energy: renewable/alternative power
- Tax > International tax
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Insurance: non-contentious
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International Trade > International trade
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Project finance