Lawrence Graham insurance and reinsurance

Corporate insurance

Lawrence Graham has a dedicated corporate insurance team which acts for insurers and reinsurers, brokers and intermediaries and managing agents at Lloyd's and capital providers.

We advise on a full range of non-contentious activities from mergers & acquisitions (private and public) to joint ventures, distribution and affinity agreements and capital raising.

Corporate insurance

We can advise you on:

  • Mergers and acquisitions (both private and public)
  • Exit strategies (including schemes of arrangement)
  • Joint ventures and strategic alliances
  • Flotations and capital raising
  • Distribution, affinity, outsourcing and other commercial arrangements
  • Start-ups and authorisations
  • Product development, supervisory and other regulatory matters
  • Risk management

Corporate insurance

Typical examples of the type of work undertaken by the team include:

  • Advising Arthur J Gallagher & Co on its £97 million acquisition of the HLG Holdings Ltd (Health Lambert Group)
  • Advising Arthur J Gallagher (UK) Limited on the sale of Gallagher Re's treaty and certain parts of its facultative broking business in the UK to Aon. The deal, structured as an asset sale, was run concurrently with the sale of of substantially all of Gallagher Re's reinsurance broking business in the US
  • Advising Arthur J Gallagher (UK) Limited on the sale of its Asian subsidiary, Arthur J Gallagher Asia Pte Limited, to its Singapore-based management
  • Advising Crispin Speers and Partners on its acquisition of the aviation business of RFIB Group Limited
  • Advising Isle of Man Insurance on its purchase of ChauffeurPlan from Longford Insurance Services Limited
  • Advising Arthur J Gallagher (UK) Limited on its acquisition of Oxygen Insurance Managers Limited.
Corporate insurance
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Legal advice for the insurance industry
Insurance clients are very important to us: our work for the insurance sector accounts for over 20% of our business.
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Corporate insurance
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Arthur J. Gallagher & Co acquires HLG Holdings Ltd
LG has advised Arthur J. Gallagher & Co on the acquisition of HLG Holdings Ltd.
May 2011 MORE

Corporate insurance

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