Debevoise & Plimpton LLP has written a new book focused on M&A in the insurance and investment management sectors, titled Insurance and Investment Management M&A Deskbook (Practising Law Institute, 2015). The Deskbook provides attorneys with an essential reference to keep up with emerging trends in insurance and investment management M&A. The book was written by Debevoise partners Kenneth Berman, Alexander Cochran, Wolcott Dunham, Gregory Gooding, David Grosgold, Jeremy Hill, Ethan James, Thomas Kelly, Satish Kini, Paul Lee, Marilyn Lion, Gregory Lyons, Nicholas Potter, William Regner, Seth Rosen, John Vasily and Richard Ward, Debevoise counsel Kyra Bromley, Mike Devins and John Dembeck, Debevoise international counsel Tim McIver, and Debevoise associates Gregory Larkin, Edite Ligere, Daniel Priest, Samuel Proctor, Michael Stern and Emily Zand, and was edited by Debevoise partner Marilyn Lion.
The evolving regulatory landscape continues to affect business organization and capital requirements in the global insurance industry, leading to new participants, new transactions and new challenges. The Deskbook covers topics ranging from acquisitions of public insurance companies, to investment in the insurance industry by private equity and pension funds, to the expansion of insurance industry participants into emerging markets around the globe. The Deskbook also details the issues that arise in the acquisition or sale of an investment adviser. In addition, it provides specific guidance on investing in Lloyd’s of London and M&A for mutual life insurers.
The book is divided into the following chapters:
- Chapter 1: Acquiring a Publicly Traded Insurance Group
- Chapter 2: Private Acquisition of an Insurance Business
- Chapter 3: Acquiring a Block of Insurance Business
- Chapter 4: Private Equity and Other Financial Sponsor Investments in the Insurance Industry
- Chapter 5: Insurance Regulatory Approval Requirements for a Stock Purchase Deal
- Chapter 6: Merger Control Issues in Insurance M&A
- Chapter 7: Selected Tax Issues in Insurance M&A
- Chapter 8: Financial Services Regulation
- Chapter 9: Investment Management M&A
- Chapter 10: Investing in Lloyd’s
- Chapter 11: M&A Options for Mutual Life Insurers
Insurance M&A is at the core of the Debevoise Global Insurance practice. The firm is recognized as a market leader in all forms of insurance M&A and is consistently called on for the industry’s most challenging, innovative and high-profile transactions. The firm’s Asset Management practice includes lawyers from each of the firm’s major practice areas. The team regularly represents buyers and sellers across a broad spectrum of transactions in the asset management industry, including public and private acquisitions by asset management companies, securities firms, private equity groups, insurance companies, domestic and foreign banks, and management groups.
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP is a premier law firm with market-leading practices, a global perspective and strong New York roots. The firm’s commercially savvy lawyers regularly lead strategic transactions and complex disputes for world-class clients.