Biography: Insurance & Reinsurance

Kenneth R Wylie is senior counsel in Sidley's Chicago office and concentrates his practice in insurance law with emphasis on insurance regulatory matters that affect insurance companies and other insurance entities. Mr Wylie has provided legal and counselling services on corporate, commercial and regulatory matters for insurance industry organisations, including the organisation and acquisition of insurance companies, the evaluation of captives and alternative risk transfer vehicles and insurance risk securitisations. He has extensive experience representing insurance guaranty funds, insureds, reinsurers, reinsureds, claimants and other parties involved in insurance company insolvencies. Mr Wylie handles reinsurance arbitrations, including disputes involving reinsurance pools and finite reinsurance.

Mr Wylie is a frequent speaker on various insurance-related issues, including reinsurance, insolvency and captives, and has served on drafting committees of Illinois insurance-related legislation and industry advisory groups for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. His recent publications include: 'Solvency II: Globalization of Insurance Regulation', Reactions Magazine (2011); 'Treasury Department's Blueprint for Insurance Regulatory Overhaul', FORC Quarterly Journal of Insurance Law and Regulation (2008); 'Finite Risk Reinsurance: The Spitzer Fallout', Sidley Austin LLP Reinsurance Law Report (2006); and 'Insurance Products as Credit Enhancement Devices', Mealey's Litigation Report: Reinsurance (2003).

Mr Wylie is a member of the Federation of Regulatory Counsel, AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (US) and the Chicago and American bar associations, including the respective insurance committees of these two associations.

Mr Wylie received his JD from the University of Michigan Law School in 1977 and his BS (with high honours) from Michigan State University in 1973. He is admitted in Illinois.