Eversheds Sutherland Adds Insurance Counsel Theresa Fitzgerald in San Francisco
August 29, 2022
Eversheds Sutherland Adds Insurance Counsel Theresa Fitzgerald in San FranciscoAugust 29, 2022 Eversheds Sutherland is pleased to announce that experienced insurance attorney Theresa M. Fitzgerald has joined the firm as counsel in the San Francisco office. Ms. Fitzgerald joins nationally recognized insurance partner Dan Brown as the second insurance attorney that Eversheds Sutherland has added in San Francisco in recent weeks.
With more than 25 years of experience in both public and private practice work, Ms. Fitzgerald focuses her practice on a wide range of insurance regulatory issues, representing insurtech companies, life, property and casualty as well as health and title insurers and companies offering warranty and service contracts. Ms. Fitzgerald served eight years as staff counsel for the California Department of Insurance, focusing on corporate affairs and conservations/liquidation matters. She also worked for the Hawaii Insurance Division, handling property/casualty insurance, captive insurers and legislative matters.
“Theresa has deep experience and understanding of the insurance industry, complementing our global team particularly in the areas of healthcare and insurtech,” said John S. Pruitt, US Practice Group Leader, Insurance. “Her addition is another step in the continued growth of our global insurance offering. The fact that she previously worked on the public side of the industry is a great benefit for our clients, especially in the California market.”
The Eversheds Sutherland Insurance practice has been advising leaders in the insurance industry for more than 50 years. Immersed in insurance—from transformative transactions to essential operations—Eversheds Sutherland’s team develops creative, business-oriented solutions in regulatory, mergers and acquisitions, finance, data privacy, tax, litigation, reinsurance and captive insurance matters, among many others.
About Eversheds Sutherland
As a global top 10 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides legal services to a global client base ranging from small and mid-sized businesses to the largest multinationals, acting for 79 of the Fortune 100, 65 of the FTSE 100 and 134 of the Fortune 200.
With more than 3,000 lawyers, Eversheds Sutherland operates in over 70 offices in more than 30 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the United States. In addition, a network of more than 200 related law firms, including formalized alliances in Latin America, Asia Pacific and Africa, provide support around the globe.
Eversheds Sutherland provides the full range of legal services, including corporate and M&A; dispute resolution and litigation; energy and infrastructure; finance; human capital and labor law; intellectual property; real estate and construction; and tax.
Eversheds Sutherland is a global legal practice and comprises two separate legal entities: Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP (headquartered in the UK) and Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP (headquartered in the US), and their respective controlled, managed, affiliated and member firms. The use of the name Eversheds Sutherland is for description purposes only and does not imply that the member firms or their controlled, managed or affiliated entities are in a partnership or are part of a global LLP. For more information, visit eversheds-sutherland.com.
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