Bio

Elena Coyle is co-head of Skadden’s insurance M&A and reinsurance practices. She advises on a diverse range of complex corporate transactions on behalf of insurers in the life and annuity, health, long-term care (LTC), property and casualty and surety markets, as well as on related regulatory representations. Ms. Coyle’s experience includes counseling on insurance mergers, acquisitions and divestitures (both domestic and cross-border), reinsurance, renewal rights transactions, mutual transactions, capital markets transactions, intercompany reorganizations and restructurings, as well as advising insurance clients in evaluating new and emerging transaction structures, including divisions and insurance business transfers. Ms. Coyle has been repeatedly selected for inclusion in Chambers USA, where she is recognized as a leading lawyer in its Insurance: Transactional & Regulatory category and described by clients as “among the very best insurance lawyers” and “incredibly capable and a very skilled negotiator.” In addition, Ms. Coyle was named one of The Deal’s 2023 Top Women in Dealmaking, which honors women who are “setting the bar for the next generation of attorneys.”