Contributor profiles Macquarie Group
Macquarie Group is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. Macquarie’s main business focus is making returns by providing a diversified range of services to clients. Macquarie acts on behalf of institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world. We have expertise in specific industries, including resources and commodities, energy, financial institutions, infrastructure and real estate.
Founded in 1969, Macquarie now employs more than 15,000 people in over 28 countries. At 30 September 2011, Macquarie had assets under management of US$317 billion.
Mayer Brown
Mayer Brown is a global legal services organisation advising clients across the Americas, Asia and Europe. Our presence in the world’s leading markets enables us to offer clients access to local market knowledge combined with global reach.
We are noted for our commitment to client service and our ability to assist clients with their most complex and demanding legal and business challenges worldwide. We serve many of the world’s largest companies, including a significant proportion of the Fortune 100, FTSE 100, DAX and Hang Seng Index companies and more than half of the world’s largest banks. We provide legal services in areas such as banking and finance; corporate and securities; insurance; litigation and dispute resolution; antitrust and competition; employment and benefits; environmental; financial services regulatory & enforcement; government and global trade; intellectual property; real estate; tax; restructuring, bankruptcy and insolvency; and wealth management.
Nexus Underwriting Management Limited
Nexus Underwriting Management Limited (NUML) was established in April 2010 as a unique and innovative private equity backed vehicle with the intent of offering a fast track entry into the professional lines market place for new insurers. Nexus Underwriting Management Limited acts as a shared services provider offering non-underwriting functions to capacity providers and their underwriting operating subsidiaries.
Nexus Underwriting Management Limited manages three active underwriting operating subsidiaries; Nexus Professional Risks (NPR), a Lloyds of London coverholder established in 2012 and servicing UK regional SME brokers; Nexus Financial Products (NFP), a Lloyds of London Consortium established in 2011 (previously trading as Argo Financial Products since 2008) focused on London wholesale business; Torus Executive Risks, a joint venture with Torus Insurance (UK) Ltd established in 2010 and focused on London wholesale business. Across these subsidiaries, NUML will manage over £70m of GWP by the end of 2012.
QBE Insurance Group
QBE Insurance Group is Standard & Poor’s A+ rated and one of the world’s leading insurers and reinsurers with operations in all the key insurance markets and over 16,000 employees worldwide. We operate out of 52 countries across the globe, with a presence in all key insurance markets, and are lead underwriters within our chosen markets, setting rates and conditions. For the year ended 31 December 2011, the company underwrote gross written premium totalling £11,400 million and held shareholders’ funds of £6,685 million.
Risk and Insurance in Private Equity and M&A 2012/13
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