Andrew Frankel
Andy Frankel is Head of Simpson Thacher’s Insurance and Reinsurance Practice. He has more than 30 years of experience successfully representing clients in a wide variety of complex disputes, including insurance, securities, product liability and other commercial litigation and investigations. Andy has successfully litigated cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the United States and in domestic and international arbitrations. Representative insurance-related experience includes defending insurers in complex coverage disputes and bankruptcy proceedings involving a variety of mass tort litigations, representing insurers in direct actions, claims alleging bad faith, environmental coverage disputes, claims involving dissolved or defunct policyholders and court-appointed receivers, claims involving alleged disparate impact liability, representing insurers in market conduct examinations and other government investigations, and a wide range of other matters on behalf of insurers. · Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
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Andy Frankel is Head of Simpson Thacher’s Insurance and Reinsurance Practice. He has more than 30 years of experience successfully representing clients in a wide variety of complex disputes, including insurance, securities, product liability and other commercial litigation and investigations.
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Education
- Brooklyn Law School (J.D., cum laude)
- Drexel University (B.S.)
- Law Clerk, Hon. Morton I. Greenberg, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit (1991–1992)
- Law Clerk, Hon. Mitchell H. Cohen, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (1990–1991)