Stephanie Duchene is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, Co-Chair of the Firm's Insurtech practice and a member of the Insurance Transactional and Regulatory Group. She is based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. She focuses her practice on representing insurance companies, producers and other insurance licensees and insurance-related service providers in complex and sensitive regulatory matters, including negotiating and resolving significant single and multi-state market conduct and financial examinations and investigations; counseling on compliance with licensing, claims handling, marketing and advertising rules; acquisitions, mergers and demutualizations of insurance companies; and advising on the development of new insurance products from initial concept through regulatory approval and into the market.

Stephanie regularly counsels insurtech companies, traditional carriers and non-insurance entities on the intersection of insurance law and innovation in the industry. She advises clients on all lines of insurance, including accident, life and health, property and casualty, title as well as surplus and excess lines.

Stephanie is ranked as a leading insurance lawyer by Chambers USA (2024).

EDUCATION
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, J.D. (magna cum laude), 2004
University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 2001

PRACTICES
Corporate & Financial Services
Insurance - Transactional and Regulatory