Robert Chaplin > Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP Offices

22 Bishopsgate
London
EC2N 4BQ
England
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Robert Chaplin

Work Department
Insurance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity
Position
Partner
Career
Mr. Chaplin primarily focuses on the insurance and asset management sectors, advising on international and domestic mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and strategic reinsurances. He has extensive experience in transactions involving financial sponsors and their in-house (re)insurers, asset managers, portfolio companies and other private capital-owned vehicles. His clients include a diverse range of multinational, U.K.-, Europe-, U.S.- and Bermuda-based insurers, reinsurers, brokers and intermediaries — including well-known participants in both the Lloyd’s and London Market — and asset managers.
Mr. Chaplin also counsels on emerging and long-standing regulatory issues and developments (with a particular emphasis on prudential matters, including Solvency II and Solvency UK), schemes, restructurings and reorganizations, capital raisings, life and non-life portfolio transfers, longevity transactions, and distribution and other material commercial agreements. In addition to his extensive transactional and advisory insurance practice, Mr. Chaplin works closely with Skadden’s international litigation and arbitration practitioners in London and around the world to advise market participants on complex, high-stakes disputes.
Memberships
- England & Wales
Education
- M.A., Cambridge University, 1999
- L.P.C., College of Law, Guildford, 1997
- B.A., University of Cambridge, 1996
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
(Leading partners)Robert Chaplin – Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP
Characterised by its strong insurance sector M&A work, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP is considered a transactional powerhouse. It also advises clients on reinsurance matters, regulatory issues, debt and equity market transactions, and regulatory capital and financing arrangements. Practice head Robert Chaplin is highly regarded in the area and has extensive experience in transactions involving financial sponsors and their insurers and portfolio companies. Chaplin is supported by Benjamin Lyon, who joined the practice in February 2024 from Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, and excels in M&A, capital raising and reinsurance transactions, as well as being knowledgeable about the insurtech sector.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Insurance: corporate and regulatory London > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Risk advisory > Corporate governance
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Finance > High yield
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: corporate and commercial
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds