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

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP
22 Bishopsgate
London
EC2N 4BQ
England

Work Department

Insurance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity

Position

Partner

Career

Robert Chaplin is head of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group in Europe.

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.