Insurance

Our insurance specialists provide a formidable blend of legal, regulatory and tax expertise in the insurance field. The group handles many of the largest and most innovative transactions in the sector and advises on the implications of many significant developments.

Our insurance partners are well-known to many of the officials at the FSA involved in the financial supervision and regulation of financial services in the UK.

We regularly advise on:

• bulk annuity transactions and the pensions buy-out market
• capital markets
• closed fund transactions
• public and private mergers and acquisitions
• demutualisations and other restructurings
• distribution arrangements
• outsourcing
• reinsurance
• transactions involving the Lloyd's market
• product structuring
• financial regulation

Our dispute resolution lawyers have expertise in substantial and complex insurance and reinsurance litigation often with an international element. We act for insureds as well as brokers and insurers.

The quality of our advice has been recognised by a number of awards including 'Legal Adviser of the Year' for our work advising Resolution on the acquisition of the AXA UK Life Business, as well as advising Global Infrastructure Partners in relation to the acquisition of London Gatwick Airport (The Financial Times  and Mergermarket Group European M&A Awards, 2010). We are also ranked as the top law firm (jointly) for insurance in London and the UK (The UK Legal 500, 2010).