Pat Hughes

Pat Hughes is a strategic advisor, public policy advocate and regulatory attorney for insurance industry clients across all product lines and services. Clients turn to him when important regulatory and public policy matters in various arenas—including state and federal agencies, the NAIC, legislatures, and international regulatory bodies—create challenges or opportunities for their businesses. Leading the insurance team’s regulatory and government affairs practice, he leverages a dynamic, multijurisdictional Faegre Drinker team that deploys proactive national and local regulatory and public policy strategies.

Hughes is a former senior insurance regulator and state government attorney. As chief legal counsel to the Office of the Governor in Illinois, he oversaw regulatory affairs and directed legal representation for 45 executive branch agencies and several hundred attorneys and outside counsel. He also served as General Counsel to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which then included the Division of Insurance, and as Special Deputy Receiver and CEO with the Office of the Special Deputy, administering the receiverships of 47 companies. While with the state, he chaired NAIC working groups on critical issues, including Dodd-Frank implementation and complex receivership oversight.