PERRY J. SHWACHMAN is a Partner in the Chicago office, co-head of Sidley’s Global Insurance and Financial Services Group and member of Sidley’s Executive Committee. He regularly counsels clients on a wide variety of matters involving the insurance industry. His clients include insurance companies, commercial and investment banks, investment managers and other financial institutions that transact with insurance companies. For over twenty years he has advised clients on merger and acquisition, reinsurance, securities, insurance securitization, private equity, lending, derivative, structured product, structured investment vehicle and stable value transactions, as well as on insurance regulatory matters. Mr. Shwachman has been at the forefront in the development of life insurance securitizations and has helped structure some of the first embedded value, redundant reserve financing and catastrophic mortality linked securities transactions. In addition to life and health insurance, he also has substantial experience with property and casualty, financial guaranty and mortgage insurance matters.
Mr. Shwachman has been recognized by Chambers USA-America’s Leading Business Lawyers, PLC Cross-border Insurance and Reinsurance Handbook, The Legal 500 U.S. and was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2012 in the field of insurance. He was awarded a 2012 ILO Client Choice Award in the area of Insurance & Reinsurance (U.S.) In addition, Mr. Shwachman is a certified public accountant, having received a bronze medal for passing the 1983 CPA examination with the third highest score in the State of Illinois.