JEREMY WATSON focuses his practice on a variety of corporate, securities, and regulatory matters involving the insurance and financial services industry.
He regularly represents insurance companies, private equity firms, and other industry participants in connection with domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions (including acquisitions and divestitures of books of insurance business through reinsurance, renewal rights, and other alternative transaction structures), venture capital/private equity investments, public and private securities offerings, and the formation and capitalization of domestic and offshore insurance and reinsurance companies and related ventures (including sidecars and other alternative capital vehicles). He also regularly advises clients with respect to the regulation of insurance holding company systems and reinsurance arrangements.
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 BTI Consulting Group’s M&A Client Service All-Stars. He is also the lead editor of Sidley’s annual Sidley Global Insurance Review publication.