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Robert Chaplin
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Work Department
Insurance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity
Position
Partner
Career
Robert Chaplin focuses primarily on transactional and advisory work in the insurance sector.
Mr. Chaplin advises 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, portfolio companies and other private capital-owned vehicles. His clients include a diverse range of multinational, U.K., European and Bermudian insurers, reinsurers, brokers and intermediaries, including well-known participants in both the Lloyd’s and London Market. Mr. Chaplin also counsels on emerging and long-standing regulatory issues and developments in the sector (with a particular emphasis on prudential matters, including Solvency II), 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 in advising insurers, reinsurers and other market players on complex, high-stakes reinsurance 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
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP has an established presence in the transactional space, advising on a number of high-profile and significant corporate and financial deals for private equity, brokerage, and insurance carrier clients. The insurance team ‘interact seamlessly with other teams within the firm‘ and has the wider firm’s global footprint to draw upon to assist in major mandates across the UK and the US. The firm’s reputation in the insurance sector has been enhanced by the hire of Robert Chaplin from Slaughter and May in October 2022, bringing his ‘many years of top tier experience in the insurance space, a brain the size of a planet and an impressive ability to translate legal complexity into a practical way forward on complex insurance regulatory issues.‘ He joins Robert Stirling, who has an established reputation in insurance and asset management work.
London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP provides the ‘highest levels of excellent service’ according to clients, with an integrated transatlantic offering of English and US law, experience across a variety of M&A matters and Takeover Code expertise. The practice has been expanding its remit with FTSE 100-listed companies and offers multi-faceted support on transactions through strong capabilities in shareholder activism, antitrust, foreign investment, white collar crime and regulatory risk. Team leaders include global transactions head Lorenzo Corte, an expert in cross-border transactions, contested takeovers, de-SPAC transactions and corporate governance work, and UK corporate co-heads George Knighton, who is known for his broad experience in M&A, private equity and restructuring transactions and private equity specialist Katja Butler . Other key players include public M&A specialist Scott Hopkins, who is well-versed in advising companies on legal and regulatory responsibilities, and the ‘superlative’ Simon Toms, who specialises in the technology, fintech, media and telecoms sectors . John Adebiyi offers extensive knowledge and advice in relation to UK national security aspects of M&A and private equity transactions. ‘Go-to partner’ Bruce Embley regularly handles work for a range of client including international corporations and financial sponsors while Denis Klimentchenko regularly handles M&A and corporate financings. Ani Kusheva has significant experience in public company takeovers, joint ventures and private equity transactions. Counsel Sarah Knapp handles cross-border corporate transactions. The team continues to grow in terms of its client roster and bench strength, and notably added insurance M&A specialist Robert Chaplin from Slaughter and May in late 2022. Chaplin has a transactional and advisory insurance offering with extensive experience in matters involving insurers, portfolio companies, financial sponsors and private capital-owned vehicles.
Lawyer Rankings
- Insurance: corporate and regulatory London > Insurance
- M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+ London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
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- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
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+
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Finance > High yield
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£250m+)
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition