Cynthia Shoss Email & Phone Number

Cynthia R. Shoss is a nationally recognized adviser on Insurance regulatory matters, focusing on transformative transactions such as demutualizations, mergers and acquisitions, conversions and other restructurings that involve senior executives and Boards of Directors. She also assists clients with corporate governance, legislation, examinations and investigations, receiverships and insolvencis, compliance, investments and other issues.For more than 35 years, Cynthia has counseled clients in the various insurance sectors in the US and internationally, including life insurance, and annuities, property/casualty insurance, health insurance, workers' compensation and reinsurance. She has worked with Fortune 500 companies, investment bankers, actuaries, strategic and financial investors, insuretech enterprises, brokers, trade associations, state departments of insurance and attorneys general, and other law firms. Her insurance clients have included public companies, mutual, mutual holding companies, fraternals, reciprocals, and the Lloyd's market. She has authored books and articles and presented at conferences from London to New York to Tokyo on insurance industry issues.Cynthia was the first woman and second lawyer in private practice in the 100-year history of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel to receive its Buist M. Anderson Distinguished Service Award for lifetime service to the life insurance bar and industry. In 2018, she was inducted into the Tulane Law School Hall of Fame.Cynthia currently serves on the firm's Global CSR & Pro Bono Committee as well as the Diversity & Inclusion Committee. She has served as Co-Chair of the firm's Global Board, Co-Head of Global Insurance, and a member of the U.S. Executive Committee. She formerly practiced at LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae where she served as Managing Partner of the firm's London office (at Lloyd's)and Co-Chair of the Insurance Practice Group.She has been ranked as a leading lawyer for years in all of the top legal directories, including Chambers, The Legal 500, New York Super Lawyers and others. She was named among "25 Women to Watch in Insurance, Risk Management and Employee Benefits Worldwide" by Business Insurance and is a recipient of BTI Consulting Group's Client Service All-Star Award. She has been a member since 2001 of the Board of Overseers, and of the Executive Committee of the Board, of the School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science of St. John's University.

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