Jeff Clancy is counsel in the Corporate & Financial Services Department and Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Practice Group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. Jeff focuses on all aspects of professional liability insurance, risk management and complex indemnification schemes. He regularly advises corporations, boards, individual directors and officers, independent directors, private equity firms and hedge funds on insurance-related issues ranging from insurance program design and policy procurement, corporate transactions, restructuring and bankruptcy matters, and management and professional services claims.
Prior to joining Willkie, Jeff was an associate at a major international law firm, where he regularly represented insurance companies on all aspects of professional liability insurance.
Selected Publications
- “Reorganization And D&O: Not Always Business As Usual,” Law360, March 2012 – discussing D&O insurance in the restructuring and bankruptcy context
Selected Speaking Engagements
- “Risky Business: Why Coverage Counsel is Necessary in Corporate Transactions,” Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, American Bar Association, February 2018
- “SEC & DOJ and Interplay with Civil Actions, and Coverage Considerations,” Insurers’ and Insureds’ Perspective on Current Issues in D&O Liability & Insurance 2017 CLE, New York City Bar Association, June 2017
- “The State of the D&O Marketplace: The Latest Products, Coverage, Claims, and Underwriting,” 4th National Forum on Securities Litigation & Enforcement, American Conference Institute, January 2015