Deals by practice · November 2026
Insurance & Reinsurance: deal monitor
Dated deals that Insurance & Reinsurance lawyers worked on over the last 12 months: volume, type, client industry and the advising firms.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 317
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +16.6%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $400m
- Median disclosed value
- 144
- Distinct clients
What the data show
From November 2025 to October 2026, Sartori & Partners recorded 317 dated deals worked by Insurance & Reinsurance lawyers. Year on year, on windows that end a month early, the deal count grew 16.6% (259 to 302). The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By deal type, Disputes & investigations is involved in 63.4% of these deals and M&A in 18.9%. By client industry, Insurance is involved in 75.7% of these deals.
Deal value was disclosed on 12.9% of them; where disclosed, the median was $400 million. 144 distinct clients appear across the window.
Debevoise & Plimpton ranks first among advising firms, in the 11-20 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.
A firm hiring for Insurance & Reinsurance work should read the adviser table as the map of where experienced lawyers sit today.
Firms by rank and band
Each firm appears as a rank and a band, never an exact count, and only with at least 10 moves in the window.
| Rank | Firm | Deals (band) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Debevoise & Plimpton | 11-20 |
| 2 | Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell | 11-20 |
| 3 | Clyde & Co | 11-20 |
| 4 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 11-20 |
| 5 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates | 11-20 |
| 6 | Sidley Austin | 6-10 |
| 7 | Simpson Thacher & Bartlett | 6-10 |
| 8 | Reed Smith | 6-10 |
| 9 | Troutman Pepper Locke | 6-10 |
| 10 | Reynolds Porter Chamberlain | 6-10 |
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- Corporate & M&A
- Intellectual Property
- Banking & Finance
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- Real Estate
- Private Equity
- Funds & Investment Management
- Projects & Infrastructure
- Product Liability & Torts
- Public Law & Government
- Restructuring & Insolvency
- Employment & Labor
- Antitrust & Competition
- Health Care
- Financial Services Regulatory
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Edition November 2026. Window: November 2025 to October 2026. Source: Sartori & Partners, from public law-firm announcements, firm websites and professional profiles, checked monthly. Methodology. Spot an error? [email protected].
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