Leslie Davis

Insurance/Reinsurance

• Achieved a significant victory for a reinsurer in an arbitration concerning its contractual right to increase nonguaranteed reinsurance premiums and secured a final award worth upwards of $115 million.
• Counseling and representing reinsurers in disputes involving their obligations and their ability to increase premiums on books of yearly renewable term life insurance.
• Representing insurers in litigation involving coverage for Amtrak’s environmental liabilities and various bodily injury claims arising out of repetitive stress, asbestos, and other substances.
• Counseling and representing insurers in litigation regarding coverage for concussion-related injuries involving the National Football League, the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
• Representing London market insurers with respect to coverage issues for various professional liability matters, including crime, technology and media, and architects and engineers.
• Representing insurers in litigation regarding coverage for General Motors' historical environmental and asbestos liabilities.
• Played leading role in trial and appeal representing insurers in the nation's most significant asbestos bankruptcy cases, including Combustion Engineering, Congoleum, Federal-Mogul, Flintkote, JT Thorpe, Mid-Valley, Owens Corning, Plant Insulation, Quigley, Skinner Engine, Specialty Products, Thorpe Insulation, and W.R. Grace.

 Specialized Litigation

• Successfully represented global petroleum and petrochemical trading company in a 10-day trial that resulted in holding a contractual counter-party company's affiliates, managers, and owners liable under veil-piercing and alter-ego theories for a multimillion-dollar judgment against the company.
• Prevailing in several arbitrations for clients seeking contractual indemnification for multimillion-dollar losses, including obtaining awards of attorneys' fees and interest from the other contracting parties.
• Representing a global petroleum and petrochemical trading company in multiple U.S. and international contract disputes involving the purchase or sale of biodiesel fuel, chemicals, and other energy products.
• Representing an international biopharmaceutical company in arbitrations concerning contractual licensing disputes.

Representative matters may include engagements before joining Troutman Pepper.

• Presenter, "U.S. Revival Statutes and Insurance/Reinsurance Considerations," Brokers & Reinsurance Markets Association, BRMA Lunch and Learn, March 22, 2023.
• Panelist, "Set Up, Design and Tactics in Value-Driven Negotiation," ABA Women in Litigation Joint Conference, November 16, 2017.
• Panelist, "Insurance Coverage Issues: Loss Portfolio Transfers, Retroactive Reinsurance, Legacy Liabilities, Long Tail Losses, Trigger, Allocation, Successor Rights After Mergers, and More," ACI 22nd National Advanced Forum on Asbestos Claims and Litigation, January 13, 2017.
• Panelist, "Garlock Decision/Transparency Issues – the Bankrupt Legacy Insured and the Double Dipping Claimant," AIRROC's New York Regional Education Day, New York, NY, April 21, 2016.
• Panelist, "Asbestos – A Perspective From the Direct Side: Current Trends and Future Predictions," ARIAS•U.S. Webinar, April 22, 2015.
• Panelist, "Insurance Coverage Issues: Pursuing Claims Against Bankrupt, Dissolved, or Defunct Entities; Issues Involving Joint Insurers and Non-Settling Insurers; Trigger, Exhaustion and Allocation Nuances; Assignment of Policies and Proceeds; and Developments With Respect to CUMIS Counsel," ACI 18th National Advanced Forum on Asbestos Claims and Litigation, January. 16, 2015.
• Panelist, "Asbestos Bankruptcy Cases, Tort Litigation and Discovery Issues," National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, October 10, 2014.
• Panelist, "The Effect of the Estimation Ruling in the Garlock Bankruptcy Case on the Future of Asbestos Litigation and the Latest on Courts and Legislatures Providing for Greater Transparency Between the Trust Claim and Civil Tort Systems," ACI 17th National Advanced Forum on Asbestos Claims and Litigation, June 26, 2014.
• Panelist, "Jargony – Insurance Basics for Business Lawyers," ABA Business Law Section Spring Meeting, April 10, 2014.

• Co-author, " Troutman Pepper Guide to International Arbitration," Troutman Pepper, April 17, 2023.
• Co-author, " A Change in Course? The Eleventh Circuit May Soon Join Most Circuits on the Applicability of FAA Grounds to Vacate Nondomestic Arbitration Awards," Troutman Pepper, December 14, 2022.
• Co-author, " Federal Court Further Narrows 28 U.S.C. § 1782 Application Following Landmark SCOTUS Decision," Troutman Pepper, November 17, 2022.
• Co-author, " Can You Enforce an International Arbitration Award That’s Been Set Aside?" Troutman Pepper, August 10, 2022.
• Co-author, " SCOTUS Resolves Section 1782 Controversy: Courts Cannot Order Discovery in Most International Arbitrations," Troutman Pepper, June 15, 2022.
• Co-author, " SCOTUS to Resolve Circuit Split After All — Can Federal Courts Order Discovery For Use in Private, Commercial International Arbitrations?," Troutman Pepper, December 15, 2021.
• Co-author, " SCOTUS to Dismiss 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) Case: No Resolution (For Now) as to Whether the Section Applies to Private, Commercial, International Arbitrations," Troutman Pepper, September 27, 2021.
• Co-author, " Certiorari Granted: SCOTUS to Decide if 28 U.S.C. § 1782(a) Applies to Private, Commercial, International Arbitrations," Troutman Pepper, March 23, 2021.
• Co-author, " Circuits Remain Split on Allowing U.S. Discovery in Private, International Arbitrations," Troutman Pepper, July 13, 2020.
• Co-author, " Supreme Court May Decide if Litigants Can Conduct U.S. Discovery for Private International Arbitrations," Troutman Pepper, July 7, 2020.
• Co-author, " Remote Int'l Arbitration Lessons to Retain Post-Pandemic," Law360, May 1, 2020.
• Co-author, "Where Are They Now, Part Eight: An Update on Developments in Asbestos-Related Bankruptcy Cases," Mealey's Asbestos Bankruptcy Report, September 2016.
• Author, "Whose Policy Is It, Anyway? A Debtor's Insurance Policies and Rights to Policy Proceeds," ABA Business Law Today, December 2014.
• Co-author, "Where Are They Now, Part Seven: An Update on Developments in Asbestos-Related Bankruptcy Cases," Mealey's Asbestos Bankruptcy Report, July 2014.

• Co-chair, ABA Business Bankruptcy Committee; Member, Mass Torts and Environmental Claims Subcommittee
• Claims and Litigation Management Alliance

• Best Lawyers in America®: Insurance Law (2023)