Advising:

M&A and Private Equity

• Dale Underwriting Partners operating through syndicate 1729 on its strategic partnership and investment from global private equity firm CVC
• The founding sellers of UK fraud data firm Synectics Solutions on its investment from Synova Capital
• Markerstudy Group, a Pollen Street backed company, on its acquisition of insurance broker Hughes Insurance
• Advising Aquiline on its acquisition of a controlling stake in Ripe Insurance, a UK based MGA with a focus on specialist and small business insurance
• Aquiline and Lloyd's of London insurer ERS - on a $350m fundraise to enable ERS to expand its strategy to underwrite specialty (re)insurance business
• Aquiline - on its investment in and subsequent exit from wholesale broker Beach & Associates
• Aquiline - on the acquisition of ERS, a Lloyd's of London syndicate writing speciality motor insurance
• A global insurer - on the sale of its South African business
• A global insurer - on the acquisition of a telematics and connected car business with international operations
• A global insurer - on its minority investment in a pay-as-you-go motor insurer
• A global insurer - on its strategic acquisition of a digital health and wellbeing platform as part of its newly launched healthcare business
• Primary Group - on the sale of the commercial lines MGA UK General to JC Flowers
• Primary Group backed MGA Now Health International - on its acquisition of Best Doctor's Inc private medical insurance business
• AXA - in relation to its £2.75bn disposal to Resolution Ltd of certain of its UK life businesses

ILS / ART

• A global bank a on a multi-year stop-loss transaction with a global reinsurer which took the form of an innovative hybrid transaction using a transformer vehicle.
• A global bank on the provision of multi- year collateralised reinsurance to a leading specialist run-off insurer via a cell structure and a multiyear stop- loss transaction
• An investor - on a number of bespoke ILS investments in relation to wildfire risk
• Stable Price - on its launch in Bermuda and establishment of a collateralized insurer class of company and related risk protection arrangements to provide protection to Stable's clients
• An insurer client - on two separate parametric programs relating to balance sheet de-risking
• MyLotto24 - on the creation and renewal of its innovative ILS Hoplon coverage (Hoplon I, II & III)
• A Lloyd's members' agent - on the use of funding structure using the new UK ILS regime
• MGA Now Health International - on its global capacity arrangements and reinsurance arrangements with RGA
• A lead investor - in relation to the issue of the Munich Re reinsurance sidecar Eden Re catbonds, covering US weather and earthquake risk
• Lottoland - on its pay-out loss coverage through collateralised reinsurance using a Gibraltar cell company to transform the risk to investors in the first transaction of its kind in Gibraltar

InsurTech

• Tech-enabled commercial motor insurer Zego - in its $150m Series C valuing the business at $1.1bn, making Zego the UK's first InsurTech "Unicorn"
• Nexus Mutual, a peer-to-peer risk coverage defi application - on the ethereum blockchain, which is one the first businesses to capitalize a risk pool through cryptocurrency and now has capital assets reported to be in excess of $200m, on its platform launch and token sale (ICO)
• Arch - on the creation of a bespoke insurance product and a new consortium dedicated to underwriting digital asset risks with limits of up to $150m, BlueVault is the first consortium of its kind to cover digital assets held in secure vaults
• Three global insurers and a global bank - on investments into and strategic partnerships with InsurTechs
• NRF Insurathon winners Flock Cover, Pluto, Riskbook (now Supercede) and Anansi - on various matters
• MS Amlin - in relation to Insurwave, one of the highest profile blockchain platforms in the marine insurance sector involving Maersk, EY, Willis Towers Watson, XL Catlin, MS Amlin and Microsoft
• AIG and Standard Chartered - on the insurance regulatory aspects relating to the use of blockchain in their trade finance platform PoC