Latham & Watkins LLP

Client Satisfaction

Supported by the addition of Gary Boss and his team from Clifford Chance, Latham’s insurance practice represents some of the largest global insurers and reinsurers, private equity firms, top-tier asset managers, and financial investors in the insurance and broader financial services sectors. This client portfolio complements Latham’s existing strong insurance and private equity client base, bolstering the firm’s position as a comprehensive solution provider for clients seeking guidance on intricate transactions. Based in New York, Boss specializes in private equity insurance M&A and the establishment of capital raises for new companies in the insurance and reinsurance sectors. He adeptly advises clients and their portfolio companies on navigating today’s highly regulated markets, both locally and internationally. Other key figures in the practice include Analisa Dillingham, based in New York, who focuses on alternative capital work, insurer investments, Insurtech, and insurance regulatory matters. Meanwhile, also in New York, Kirsten Gaeta brings her expertise in corporate and transactional matters alongside regulatory expert Benjamin Lee and Teresa Wendel offering extensive experience working with major P&C and life and health insurers and reinsurers. Additionally, counsels Alexander Traum and Dean Agnos, also based in New York, further strengthen the practice.

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Key clients

Apollo
Leonard Green & Partners
The Carlyle Group
J.P. Morgan
Harrington Reinsurance Holdings Limited and Harrington Re Ltd.
Reinsurance Group of America
AXIS
Aegon
Mubadala Investment Company PJSC
William Penn Life Insurance Company of New York

Work highlights

Advised Apollo on the purchase by Apollo affiliated insurance companies, third-party insurance managed accounts, and other institutional clients of $500 million of surplus notes issued to a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated.
Advised Stone Point Credit, the credit-investing platform of alternative investment firm Stone Point Capital, and AXIS Capital (NYSE: AXS), a global specialty underwriter and provider of insurance and reinsurance solutions, together with its direct and indirect subsidiaries and branches, in the launch of Monarch Point Re, a newly created collateralized reinsurer.
Advised Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (“RGA”), a global leader in mortality risk with more than $3 trillion of life reinsurance in force, on the structuring, formation and capital raise of a new Missouri-based reinsurance vehicle sponsored by RGA.