Sean Carney

Practice Areas

SEAN CARNEY is co-leader of Sidley’s global Insurance practice. Sean’s practice focuses on a variety of corporate, securities, governance and regulatory insurance matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate reorganizations (including sponsored demutualizations and mutual and mutual holding company conversions) and venture capital/private equity investments.

He is a trusted partner and dealmaker for many of the largest insurance and other financial institutions in the world and he has a diverse corporate practice representing public and private insurance companies, finance companies, private equity firms and investment banks.

He regularly represents insurance and financial services companies and other industry participants in connection with these and other matters, including acquisitions and divestitures of books of insurance business through reinsurance, renewal rights and other alternative transaction structures; public offerings, including initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, and private placements of debt and equity securities; and the regulation of insurance holding company systems and the structure and regulation of alternative risk financing mechanisms and complex reinsurance arrangements, including insurance securitization, loss portfolio transfers and commutations.