Client industry · November 2026
Insurance: who advises the sector
Dated deals for insurance clients over the last 12 months, the practices and firms behind them, and how lawyers with this focus moved.
The last 12 months: November 2025 to October 2026
- 802
- Dated deals, 12 monthsNovember 2025 to October 2026
- +1.3%
- Year on yearSettled 12-month windows
- $750m
- Median disclosed value
- 359
- Distinct clients
What the data show
Sartori & Partners data count 802 dated deals for Insurance clients from November 2025 to October 2026. Year on year the deal count held level (783 to 793 on settled windows, +1.3%). The deal market as a whole moved +10.6% over the same windows.
By practice, Insurance & Reinsurance is involved in 29.9% of these deals and Capital Markets in 27.1%. By deal type, Disputes & investigations is involved in 30.2% of these deals and Capital markets in 26.6%.
Deal value was disclosed on 20.4% of them; where disclosed, the median was $750 million. 359 distinct clients appear across the window.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates ranks first among advising firms, in the 41-60 band; the full top 10 follows as ranks and bands.
Lawyers whose work centers on Insurance changed firm 661 times in the same window. Partners were 32.4% of those moves, against 27.7% across the lateral market. Year on year those moves changed -9.5%.
For a company in Insurance, the adviser table shows where sector experience sits, which is where an in-house hire is most likely to come from.
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 | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates | 41-60 |
| 2 | Debevoise & Plimpton | 21-40 |
| 3 | Sidley Austin | 21-40 |
| 4 | Slaughter and May | 21-40 |
| 5 | Davis Polk & Wardwell | 21-40 |
| 6 | Willkie Farr & Gallagher | 21-40 |
| 7 | A&O Shearman | 21-40 |
| 8 | Sullivan & Cromwell | 11-20 |
| 9 | Latham & Watkins | 11-20 |
| 10 | Marshall Dennehey | 11-20 |
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- Insurance Lawyer Moves Fell 9.5% in 2026: Miami, Atlanta Over-Index
Fewer insurance-focused lawyers changed firms in the latest 12 months, even as the wider lateral market grew. The bench they come from is litigation-led, over-indexed in Miami, Atlanta and Philadelphia, and drawn from small firms far more often than the market.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026 - Law Firms for Insurers in 2026: A Specialist Bar Staffs the Deals
Insurer work runs through a specialist bar: insurance and reinsurance lawyers appear on 29.9% of insurance deals, far above their 0.7% share of the whole deal market. London is the second city for the work, ahead of its share for banks and asset managers.
November 11, 2026 · November 2026
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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