Insurance & Reinsurance

Reinsurance: Willis Towers Watson Takes Position on Catastrophe Cover in Italy

Willis Towers Watson Securities, the securities arm of Willis Re, acted as Lead Structuring Agent and Sole Bookrunner on a €45 million catastrophe bond for UnipolSai Assicurazioni S.p.A (“UnipolSai”), the multi-business insurance company of the […]

UK Insurance Trends

RSA Transfers EU Risks to Luxembourg, with Jan 1st 2019 Incept Date

On Thursday 29 November, the High Court sanctioned the Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance plc (RSAI) Part VII transfer, which facilitates the transfer of RSAI’s European insurance business to RSA Luxembourg S.A. (RSAL) effective from […]

News

Concirrus Joins Forces With TransRe on Marine Insurance Project

Concirrus, the marine analytics insurtech company, has agreed to work with TransRe, the global reinsurer, to jointly develop innovative data-driven reinsurance programmes for marine insurers worldwide. The teams will use Quest Marine data and analytics […]

Business

Mergers & Aquisitions News: Markel Buys Remainder of Nephila Holdings

Markel Corporation and Nephila Holdings Limited announced recently that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Markel to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Nephila. Nephila is the pre-eminent insurance-linked securities manager in the […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Mergers & Acquisitions Drop in EU, But Accelerate Across Rest of World

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the global insurance industry rose in the first half of 2018 with 186 completed deals worldwide, up from 180 in the second half of 2017, according to Clyde & Co’s Insurance […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Liberty Mutual Rebrand Includes New Italian Operations

Liberty Specialty Markets has rebranded its reinsurance division as Liberty Mutual Re and launched a reinsurance operation in Italy for the first time. The rebrand is effective immediately and encompasses all aspects of LSM’s reinsurance division, […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Aegis Respond to Lloyd’s Indian Crop Reinsurance Report

Responding to the publication of the Lloyd’s new report ‘Harvesting opportunity: an overview of the Indian crop reinsurance market’, Dominic Oldridge, crop reinsurance underwriter with AEGIS London, said: “This Lloyd’s Innovation report is a welcome step […]

Insurance & Reinsurance

Cooley Expands Transatlantic Insurance Group with Key Appointments

Cooley is strengthening its global insurance capabilities by adding East Coast-based counsels Heidi Lawson and Greg Hoffnagle. Formerly members of Mintz Levin’s insurance, reinsurance, investigations & risk management practice, Lawson will join Cooley’s insurance & […]