Sidley Austin LLP is pleased to announce that Andrew Holland and Kirk Lipsey have joined the firm’s New York office as partners in the Insurance & Financial Services group. Mr. Holland’s practice will focus on insurance regulatory and corporate matters. Mr. Lipsey will focus on insurance industry transactions, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and other strategic transactions.
Mike Goldman, co-head of the firm’s Insurance practice and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, commented, “Andrew and Kirk are highly accomplished lawyers with extraordinary insurance industry experience and perspective. They also share our commitment to providing the highest level of client service. Their addition will certainly enhance our market-leading insurance industry practice, in the U.S. and globally.”
Mr. Holland said, “Sidley is a market leader with great resources and a highly regarded global reputation. I have long worked with the highly talented lawyers at Sidley and know that I will fit in well with a firm that can offer such a powerful and robust platform.”
“We are so pleased to welcome such experienced lawyers as Andrew and Kirk to our New York office,” added Jeff Liebmann, a co-head of Sidley’s Insurance practice. “They each are highly respected by regulators, clients and colleagues alike.”
“In coming to Sidley, I am not only joining an exceptional insurance practice, but will be working with a superb corporate M&A team,” added Mr. Lipsey. “Sidley’s global platform will be of great service to my clients.”
Mr. Holland’s practice will focus on the representation of insurance companies, insurance intermediaries and institutional investors with respect to insurance regulatory and corporate matters. He has a broad range of experience, including corporate transactions, corporate governance, licensing of insurers, insurance holding company act issues, financial examinations and statutory accounting matters, producer compensation and non-admitted insurance. Prior to private practice, Mr. Holland was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Chartis U.S., Inc., a unit of American International Group (AIG).
Mr. Holland received his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was the Student Editor-in-Chief of The Tax Lawyer, and his B.S., cum laude, from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is admitted to the bar in New York and Pennsylvania.
Mr. Lipsey advises on corporate transactions, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and joint venture transactions. His insurance sector transactions have involved the representation of U.S. and non-U.S. life, annuity and property and casualty insurers in a wide range of acquisition and disposition transactions, including stock sales, asset sales, block reinsurance transactions, distressed investments and public merger transactions. He also has extensive experience with corporate transactions outside the insurance industry, including on behalf of private equity firms and large financial institutions.
Mr. Lipsey earned his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School, and his Diploma in Legal Practice and LL.B. with honors from the University of Glasgow. He is admitted to the bar in New York.
Sidley is one of only a few global law firms to have a substantial, multidisciplinary practice group devoted to the insurance and financial services industry. The firm has more than 35 years of experience and an expanding team of more than 90 lawyers dedicated to providing transactional, regulatory and dispute resolution counsel to the insurance industry and financial institutions that transact with insurance companies.
