The Boston workplace, working with Clyde & Co’s current New York and New Jersey places of work, will permit the agency to assist companies and insurance coverage firms throughout the Northeast.
The becoming a member of companions are:
- Kevin O’Connor, an insurance coverage and surety lawyer, beforehand president of Hermes Netburn. O’Connor advises main nationwide and worldwide property-casualty insurers, reinsurers, and insurance coverage declare directors in complicated protection and surety regulation issues
- Holly Polglase, a trial lawyer specializing in complicated product legal responsibility, pharmaceutical, medical gadget, poisonous tort, asbestos, basic legal responsibility and industrial regulation issues. Polglase advises main nationwide and multinational firms. She represents product producers, sellers and different companies following catastrophic losses
- John Felice, a trial and insurance coverage lawyer who represents producers, distributors, companies, premises house owners and their insurers in a wide range of poisonous publicity circumstances, together with asbestos, talc, mildew and chemical exposures. Felice additionally represents insurers, insurance coverage declare directors and different stakeholders in complicated insurance coverage protection issues and bad-faith and unfair declare apply issues
Other members of the Hermes Netburn group becoming a member of Clyde & Co embody founder Peter Hermes, Peter Netburn, Tony Sbarra and Michael Batson.
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“This office further enhances our offering in the Northeastern region of the US,” mentioned Carolena Gordon, senior companion at Clyde & Co. “New England is home to a vibrant insurance, biotech, healthcare and professional services ecosystem which we are ideally placed to support. We look forward to providing existing clients with services out of Boston and to speaking to potential new clients in the market.”
“This team of litigators provides us with the opportunity to establish an office in Boston, which is a key insurance market, while further enhancing our defense and insurance coverage nationwide, in line with our strategy,” mentioned Eileen King Bower, companion and chair of Clyde & Co’s North American board. “We welcome these talented attorneys to Clyde & Co and look forward to integrating them quickly into our region.”
“Joining Clyde & Co was the natural next step for us, with clear synergies between our practices and clients,” O’Connor mentioned. “Our clients in Boston and beyond stand to benefit significantly, as does our entire team. We will make the most of the national and global opportunities to grow and develop our practices and people.”
Clyde & Co has operated within the US for 17 years. Boston is its fifteenth workplace within the nation. The agency final expanded within the US in 2021, opening places of work in Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver. Last 12 months, the agency introduced the launch of a world cyber threat providing.
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