DLA Piper announced today that Scott Fischer has joined the firm’s Insurance sector as a partner based in New York and as head of the US Insurance Regulatory practice.
Fischer focuses on insurance sector regulatory and restructuring matters. He previously served as Executive Deputy Superintendent for Insurance at the New York State Department of Financial Services, where he led several hundred employees in supervising 1,700 insurers operating in New York with assets exceeding US$4 trillion. Earlier in his career, Fischer was Special Deputy Superintendent at the New York Liquidation Bureau, overseeing the liquidation of dozens of insolvent insurers and managing New York’s property/casualty guaranty funds.
“Scott is a highly respected former NYDFS regulator whose vast experience spans the full breadth of the global insurance sector. He will play a pivotal role in supporting DLA Piper’s investigations, enforcement, compliance, restructuring, disputes, and mergers, acquisitions and transactions capabilities in this important industry sector,” said Michael P. Murphy, global co-chair of DLA Piper’s Insurance sector.
“Scott is a significant addition to our US insurance regulatory team that is critical in supporting our clients across an array of complex matters and business decisions, not least in the context of M&A, private equity and capital markets transactions and in the rapidly evolving technology and insurtech space,” added PK Paran, global co-chair of DLA Piper’s Insurance sector. “Scott will also help support our clients on global insurance regulatory projects, working with our top-quality insurance regulatory lawyers around the world.”
Fischer joins from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. He received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his B.A., magna cum laude, from Dickinson College.
