William M Sneed

Sidley Austin LLP

One South Dearborn
Chicago
USA
IL 60603
+1 312 853 7899
wsneed@sidley.com

Ranked In

Illinois
Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Reinsurance (Band 1)

Profile

Practice Areas: Partner in Chicago, practicing in insurance and insurance/reinsurance disputes. He has extensive experience arbitrating and litigating reinsurance disputes on behalf of ceding companies and reinsurers. He has arbitrated dozens of reinsurance disputes, addressing issues such as allocation, aggregation of claims, late notice, ECO/XPL coverage, follow the fortunes, pre-hearing security, cessions of declaratory judgment expenses and retention warranties. He has successfully litigated major reinsurance contract disputes at the trial and appellate levels.

Personal: Northwestern University School of Law, JD, 1987, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif; Northwestern University, MM, 1987; Stanford University, AB, 1983. Admission: Illinois.