Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Institutions; Private Equity

Partner

Co-head of Skadden’s insurance M&A and reinsurance practices. Mr. Hlafter advises on mergers and acquisitions (negotiated and hostile), reinsurance transactions, renewal rights transactions, joint venture transactions, strategic investments, shareholder activism defense, insurance regulatory matters and corporate governance matters. Mr. Hlafter’s clients include insurers, reinsurers, financial sponsors, hedge funds, family offices and other providers of private capital, brokers, service providers (TPAs and MGAs), insurtech companies and asset management firms. He has advised on some of the largest and most significant insurance M&A transactions in the U.S. and Bermuda over the past decade and has represented a number of insurers and sponsor groups in platform building transactions and follow-on M&A transactions. Mr. Hlafter has significant experience representing clients in corporate matters, as well as representing major investment banking firms as financial advisors in M&A transactions.

J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 2002 (magna cum laude; Order of the Coif; The Georgetown Law Journal) A.B., Princeton University, 1997