David E. Mendelsohn focuses his practice in the area of insurance and reinsurance transactional and regulatory matters. He has experience representing many insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and other clients on a wide variety of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, complex regulatory, and finite, structured risk and reinsurance matters. Mr. Mendelsohn's practice also includes counseling clients on investigations, responding to subpoenas, compliance and information management matters, such as records management and retention, money laundering, data privacy and security, E&O risk management, and ethics.

Based on peer and client reviews, Mr. Mendelsohn has been selected as one of America's leading insurance lawyers by Chambers and Partners, a respected English research firm, which calls him "a specialist in transactional and regulatory work" and notes that his clients regard him as “highly knowledgeable in his field" and "equipped with a broad understanding of the issues clients face.”He has been named an Illinois Super Lawyer and is included in the international listing of the 2009 issue of Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition. He is also listed in The International Who's Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers, 2006-2008; Illinois Leading Lawyers, 2007-2008; Madison Who's Who of Executive Professionals, 2007-2008; Best Lawyers in America, 2006-2009; Who's Who in American Law, 2007-2008 and in its 30th anniversary edition; and Who's Who Legal: The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers. Martindale-Hubbell rates him AV, its highest available rating.

Mr. Mendelsohn is frequently invited to speak on a wide variety of issues affecting the insurance and reinsurance industry and has made numerous presentations on insurance, reinsurance and commercial topics to a wide variety of audiences, including the Institute of London Underwriters; Reinsurance Association of America; Brokers and Reinsurance Market Association; Excess and Surplus Lines Claims Association; NAIC/SIR; Fédérations Françaises des Sociétés d'Assurances; London Insurance and Reinsurance Market Association; IAIR (f/k/a SIR); NAIC; Lloyds of London; International Reinsurance Congress; RIMS; PLUS; Practising Law Institute; Chicago Bar Association; and, the Canadian Bar Association.

Mr. Mendelsohn is one of only 148 attorneys in the US who have been named to the 2008 BTI Client Service All-Star Team for Law Firms, which recognizes lawyers who deliver "the best client service to Fortune 1000 clients." Lawyers appear on the list only when they have been named by clients in an unprompted manner through BTI's independent research. He is also only one of a handful of attorneys in the United States named to the BTI Client Service All-Star Team list for three consecutive years.

Członkostwo

• Illinois
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Memberships

• Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Center for International Legal Studies

Publikacje

• "Contracts, Regulatory and Coverage Issues of Global Import," The Euromoney Global Insurance Handbook, 2005
• "Everybody Will Benefit from Spitzer," Insurance Day, February 11, 2005
• "US Primary Risk Broker and Reinsurance," The Euromoney Global Insurance Handbook, 2004
• “Terrorism and Security Issues: Management Responsibility,” D&O Advisor (Summer 2003)
• "Know-Your-Customer" Laws Come to Real Estate, USA Patriot Act, Real Estate Chicago (September 2002)
• The Best Laid Y2K Plans..., Gen. Reins. Year 2000 (August 1999)
• Y2K: A Reinsurance Perspective, 9 Mealey's Litig. Rep., Reinsurance No. 15, 17-37 (1998), reprinted as Insurers, Reinsurers Grapple with Y2K Issues, Y2K Counselor, April 1999 at 5 Beware Common Account Reinsurance, 8 Mealey's Litig. Rep., Ins. Insol. No. 9 (1997)
• The Year 2000 Software Problem: Reinsurers Beware, RAA Executive Newsletter Vol. 5, No. 11 (1997)
• The Year 2000 Software Problem: The Most Ominous Legal Concern Facing Businesses Today, Insurance Specialist Vol. 2, Iss. 5 (1997)
• The Year 2000 Software Problem: Reinsurers Beware, Mealey's Litigation Report Vol. 8, No. 4 (June 25, 1997)
• Viatical Settlements and the Elderly: An Emerging Market (unpublished 1996)
• Insurer Receiverships, Longman's INT'L INS. LAW & REG. (D. Campbell ed., 1995)
• Caught Between Rocks and Hard Places: The Plight of Reinsurance Intermediaries Under U.S. and English Law, 16 Mich. J. Int'l L. 485 (1995), reprinted in 8 Nat'l Ins. L.Rev. 79 (1996)
• Derivatives in Insurer Receiverships (unpublished 1995)
• Insurance Company Receiverships: What Does the Future Hold?, ABA National Institute on Solvency Concerns with Foreign Insurers and Reinsurers/Recent Developments/U.S. Reform Efforts (1994)
• Insurance Futures Contracts and Options: The Long and Short of It (excerpts only), Financial Reinsurance & Futures Newsletter No. 32 (April 1994)
• Contributing Author to Reinsurance and Claims chapters of RECEIVER'S HANDBOOK FOR INSURANCE COMPANY INSOLVENCIES (1st and 2d eds. 1992, 1994)
• Re Insurance Antitrust Litigation, 2 Ins. Law & Practice 112 (1992)
• Illinois, International Business Series, Legal Aspects of Doing Business in North America and Canada (Kluwer Law and Taxation Publishers, (Fall 1992, 1993)
• (3 part article) Franchise UPDATE 15 (Parts I-III) (1992)
• Valuation of Contingent Claims and the Application of Set-Offs in Reinsurance Insolvencies, (5 part article), Ins. Law & Practice (Parts I-III) (1991) (Parts IV, V) (1992)
• Cross-Border Insurance Insolvency: The Search for a Forum Concursus, 12 U. Pa. J. Int. Bus. Law 303 (1991), reprinted in Ins. Law & Practice (2 parts) (1992)
• Onset of an Offset Revolution: The Application of Set-Offs in Insurance Insolvencies, 95 Dick. L. Rev. 449 (1991), 8 J. Ins. Reg. 446 (1990), reprinted in 5 Nat'l Ins. L. Rev. 813 (1992), and VI INSURANCE LAW ANTHOLOGY 107 (1992)
• Launching an International Franchise Program, International Franchising: An In-Depth Treatment of Business and Legal Techniques (Y. Gramatidis and D. Campbell ed. 1991)
• Amreco: A Step Towards International Rehabilitations, 7 J. Ins. Reg. 388 (1989)
• Contributing author, Receivership Matters (Rudnick & Wolfe's semi-annual insurer receivership newsletter
• Contributing author, Health Care (Rudnick & Wolfe's health care law publication)

Civic and Charitable

• Arbitrator, National Futures Association