Our Corporate team advises on a wide range of corporate and corporate finance transactions, acting for a number of the top players across the sector, including general insurers, life companies and brokers.

Our track record covers the full range of M&A work including public takeovers, private acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and strategic alliances. We deliver our services with sector specific advice ensuring that our clients are kept up-to-date on key developments in the industry.

Our tax team provides full service support relating to tax structuring, documentation, negotiation and financing for such transactions. In the last two years we have advised on more than 275 acquisitions and disposals across Europe, with a value in excess of £45 billion.

A range of services - the team advises on:

• M&A
• Joint ventures
• Group reorganisations and restructurings
• Corporate governance advice
• Acquisitions of strategic stakes
• Portfolio transfers and Part VII schemes

Our recent experience includes:

• Advising a global insurer on the sale of a non-core life business in Europe
• Advising a leading US insurer advising on M&A, corporate restructuring and on a series of distribution agreements for life and pensions products in the UK and Europe
• Advising a leading broker on a property joint venture, along with numerous M&A transactions
• Advising a broker on the sale of its wholesale broking business
• Advising a top insurer in connection with the establishment of joint venture arrangements in various European and other jurisdictions
• Advising an insurance company on its public to private re-registration
• Advising a leading insurer on acquisitions in Europe and in the UK on capital reductions and the acquisition of an asset manager