Profile: Susan J Wilson

Insurance and Reinsurance

Biography: Insurance & Reinsurance

Susan Wilson is co-leader of Alston & Bird's corporate transactions and securities group. Her practice is concentrated on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other business combinations. Ms Wilson has been lead counsel for both buyers and sellers on a variety of complex business combinations, including stock and asset purchases, public and private company mergers, acquisitions of divisions and joint ventures.

In addition, through Ms Wilson's legal representation of businesses within the insurance industry, she has developed expertise in reinsurance transactions, including assumption reinsurance and all forms of indemnity reinsurance - such as coinsurance, modified coinsurance and quota share reinsurance. Her practice includes assisting insurance and insurance-related companies manoeuvre around the regulatory environment applicable to their business transactions.

Ms Wilson had a significant role on the Alston & Bird team that assisted with the bankruptcy examiner's investigation of Enron. She analysed complex structured finance transactions, as well as issues involving fiduciary duties of Enron's officers and directors and obligations of other parties involved. Ms Wilson served as reporter - with primary drafting responsibility - for significant portions of the examiner's report. Susan Wilson received her JD, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia, where she was editor-in-chief of Georgia Law Review, and a member of the Order of the Coif. She gained her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Georgia State University in 1986. Ms Wilson served as judicial clerk to the Honourable J L Edmondson on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a trustee of the Chattahoochee Nature Centre.