Mary Jo Barry

Overview

Mary Jo Barry focuses her practice on insurance coverage and litigation, including directors and officers, fiduciary, and other professional liability matters.

She has served as monitoring and coverage counsel to primary and excess insurers and reinsurers based in the United States, Canada, Europe, Bermuda, and other offshore jurisdictions. She has successfully resolved hundreds of high-exposure matters through negotiation, litigation, arbitration, and mediation, including matters involving significant financial fraud and complex disputes.

Ms. Barry’s experience includes securities class actions, shareholder derivative actions, and class and creditor claims alleging breaches of fiduciary duty, including claims arising from mergers and acquisitions, stock option backdating, and bankruptcy proceedings. Her practice also encompasses consumer class actions, employment liability, bankers’ liability, mortgage lender and broker liability, investment adviser and mutual fund liability, professional negligence, cryptocurrency, and cyber risks. She has participated in mediations, arbitrations, and litigation involving these matters, both to resolve underlying claims and to address related insurance coverage disputes.

Ms. Barry also advises insurers on underwriting and product development, including the drafting of specimen and manuscript policies, endorsements, and coverage agreements. She is known for her sound judgment, commitment to clients, and ability to build long-standing relationships with clients, mediators, opposing counsel, policyholders and their counsel, and other insurers and their outside counsel.

Professional Memberships

• New York County Lawyers Association – Member