Advises US and international brokers, MGAs, insurers, reinsurers, investors, and technology companies on complex insurance transactions and regulation

Handles regulatory approvals and due diligence for M&A and affiliate transactions, and the formation, licensing, and structuring of business operations

Negotiates distribution, MGA, and other administration agreements and develops and obtains approvals for novel insurance products

Counsels clients on InsurTech, excess and surplus lines, and the intersection of healthcare and state insurance regulation

Advises insurance and reinsurance clients on M&A, new company formation, financings, capital raises, and new product development

Counsels InsurTech startups on formation and transactional and regulatory matters

Structures complex reinsurance transactions, insurance-linked securities, and distressed portfolio run-off matters

Leverages his executive and investment banking experience at leading global investment banks and reinsurance groups to provide practical business and legal guidance

Chuck Gibbs focuses his practice on insolvency and restructuring. He represents debtors, secured creditors, official and ad hoc creditors’ committees, equity committees, and asset buyers in multijurisdictional and cross-border matters.  

His cross-border experience includes representing joint liquidators in Caribbean insolvency proceedings, including the largest individual fraud case in history. He often partners with non-money center secured lenders, particularly in the real estate space, leveraging his deep experience in handling real estate loan workouts on behalf of lenders both in and out of court. He has also led public and private companies through complex financial restructurings. 

Over a career spanning more than 40 years, Chuck has been recognized as one of the United States’ leading restructuring lawyers. Among other honors, he has been Chambers-ranked for more than 20 years, including Band 1 for more than a decade. 

Throughout his career, Chuck has been on the cutting edge of novel restructuring issues ranging from Caribbean resorts to centralized cryptocurrency exchanges. 

Christopher (Chris) Gladbach is the global co-head of the firm’s Energy & Project Finance Group. He counsels clients on energy mergers and acquisitions (M&A), project development, tax equity, private credit, and project finance transactions.

Chris works with energy clients in structuring complex equity and debt investments. He advises both buyers and sellers in the power sector on M&A, joint ventures, and the development of large-scale energy projects.

Chris leads a task force focused on private credit lending to energy platforms and portfolios. He represents market-leading private credit funds, private equity funds, and institutional investors in portfolio and platform lending and equity transactions and understands the unique challenges and opportunities these clients face.

Chris is recognized nationally for his work in the energy sector. He frequently speaks and writes on topics related to M&A, private equity, and institutional investments in power assets.

Christian Krohs is the European head of McDermott’s Antitrust Group and advises clients on all aspects of antitrust and competition law for more than 20 years. His practice includes representing clients in proceedings and litigation before German and EU antitrust authorities and courts, coordinating complex antitrust and merger projects before authorities worldwide, and handling compliance programs and investigations.

He has extensive experience, in particular, in relation to cartel investigations, cartel damages claims, as well as national, EU and international merger control projects. He has also advised numerous clients regarding questions of market dominance and its abuse as well as antitrust and anticorruption compliance.

Christian is an experienced lawyer who has spent many years in the antitrust and competition law departments of leaders international law firms in Germany, Brussels and London. He is a well-respected author of several publications and continues to comment on relevant topics of antitrust and competition law.

Frédéric Pradelles focuses his practice on French and European competition law. He regularly advises international clients in abuse of dominance cases, cartel investigations and on distribution matters, notably in the context of litigation before the French and European competition authorities and courts.

Frédéric also advises clients in global, European and national merger control cases, including Phase II cases. He has extensive experience in the notification of strategic alliances and joint ventures as well as negotiating innovative remedies to secure antitrust approval for the deals on which he advises.

On the litigation side, Frédéric represents clients before the French competition authority, the French Government antitrust agency (DGCCRF) and the European Commission. He also regularly appears as a litigator before the courts in France and the European Courts in Luxembourg. Frédéric has extensive experience in summary proceedings in the field of antitrust, and in interim measures and commitments proceedings before the French Competition Authority.

Frédéric advises clients active in various industries, particularly in the retail, services, transportation, media, hospitality, information technology and banking/finance sectors.