Pinsent Masons LLP provides a full-service offering across the range of insurance work, but is more primarily focussed on transactional mandates, having a particular niche in complex legacy book with-profit transactions and being notably strong in the full spectrum of M&A. Hammad Akhtar is the global head of transactional services, bringing extensive experience in complex transactional mandates in the financial services sector to the insurance practice. Hannah Brader is the practice head, with particular expertise in M&A in the insurance space in addition to joint ventures, reorganisations, and other corporate transactions. Chrissy Findlay is similarly focused on corporate transactions in the insurance space, Iain Sawers, noted as ‘knowledgeable, smart, hard-working and pragmatic’, focusses on insurance regulation and distribution.
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- 'The senior team have great market knowledge and a real appreciation of the commercial challenges faced by insurers.'
- 'Iain Sawers is knowledgeable, smart, hard-working and pragmatic.'
Key clients
- Aegon
- Allianz Group
Work highlights
- Advised Royal London on its simplification of its with-profits fund structure, including by way of creditor schemes of arrangement.
- Advised Zurich Assurance Ltd on a collateralised insurance and reinsurance transaction by way of an amendment and restatement of an existing pass-through longevity risk transaction.