Shareen Sarwar focuses her practice on insurance recovery matters for clients from a wide variety of industries.
As a member of Pillsbury’s Insurance Recovery & Advisory practice, Shareen applies her diverse experience to the resolution of complex coverage disputes for policyholders.
Representative Experience
- Specializes in collateral loan protection policies, managing a collateral insurance portfolio valued at over $150 million involving IP-centered loan defaults.
- Lead associate on one of the largest representations and warranties insurance claim in history, managing over $1 billion in coverage, and driving the strategy for successful claim resolution.
- Lead associate on long-tail insurance coverage case for a Fortune 10 company involving historic coverage in the U.S., London and Bermuda market, managing three policy towers and hundreds of policies spanning three decades.
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- Assisted in representing a Fortune 500 manufacturing company in successfully recovering $66 million in product liability coverage through arbitration.
- Assisted in representing a lending institution in a multimillion-dollar insurance property claim involving seizure of an aircraft in Brazil, resulting in a unanimous verdict for client in New York Supreme Court – Commercial Division.
- Assisted in representing a Fortune 500 manufacturing company involving over $1 billion of coverage for environmental liability claims.
- Assisted in representing a wafer-bumping/value add company seeking multimillion-dollars in property damage and business interruption claim from its primary and third-party insurers.
- Assisted in representing a real estate company owning several dozen retail shopping centers seeking more than $20 million from its pollution liability insurers for business interruption losses.
- Assisted in representing an automobile dealership group seeking coverage from its insurers in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Professional Highlights
- Member of a top-ranked Insurance Recovery Practice at a AmLaw 100 firm from 2020 – 2023 by Benchmark Litigation, Chambers and Law360
Honors & Awards
- Profiled on Law360 as part of International Women’s Day showcase of women leaders discussing gender equity battles.
Education
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J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2018
B.A., International Affairs & Politics, The George Washington University, 2006
cum laude
Admissions
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Virginia
District of Columbia
Courts
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit