A partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Benjamin Wilkinson advises insurers, financial and professional services firms, and other private and public companies on complex cross-border transactions. Ben's practice focuses on private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate reorganizations and strategic corporate advisory work. With extensive experience in the insurance and professional services sectors, Ben has guided clients through some of their most significant and challenging transactions.
Ben’s notable representations have included:
- Standard Life in various transactions, including:
- its up-to-£2 billion strategic partnership with an investor consortium led by CVC Capital Partners plc and Prudential Financial, Inc. to expand its Pension Risk Transfer business
- several insurance business transfers, bringing together the businesses of 4 legal entities, comprising c.£200 billion of assets
- Creative Planning, LLC, one of the largest registered investment advisors (RIAs) in the United States, on its acquisition of MASECO LLP, an established RIA based in London
- AmTrust Financial Services, Inc., a global specialty property casualty insurer, in its strategic partnership with Blackstone Credit & Insurance, in which AmTrust spun off seven fee businesses across a number of jurisdictions to create a new, independent company named ANV Group Holdings
- ANV Group Holdings on its acquisition of Open Lending Corporation
- Madison Dearborn Partners on its $2.7 billion acquisition of a significant majority of NFP’s wealth business from Aon
- TDR Capital in its majority investment in CorpAcq, a UK-based business acquisition compounder that specializes in investments in small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK
- IonQ on its c. $1.1 billion share for share acquisition of Oxford Ionics
- Medicus Pharma Ltd. on its acquisition of Antev Limited, a UK-based clinical-stage drug development company
- HPS Investment Partners in the recapitalization of Vialto Partners, a premier provider of global mobility, tax and immigration solutions
- AXA on:
- the reinsurance of €1.3 billion of longevity risk
- the sale of AXA Life Europe’s offshore bonds business
- Deloitte on various transactions, including the reorganization of its CIS business and on a shareholders’ agreement for the establishment of its delivery center in the Philippines
- PwC International on the US$2.2 billion sale of its global mobility business to CD&R
- KPMG UK on the merger of the KPMG UK and KPMG Switzerland partnerships
- Nestlé on the acquisition of Lily’s Kitchen and on the sale of its Israeli ice cream business
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch on the sale of CM Investment Solutions
- RMI on the sale of its interest in Hastings Group, a UK-based general insurer
- Oaktree on the establishment of Marco Capital, a P&C insurance run-off platform
- HM Treasury on a review into the arrangements between the UK government and Pool Re
- The Medical Protection Society on the sale of MPS Risk Solutions
- Public Sector Pension Investment Board on its reorganization as part of the transition of PSPIB’s European hub from Luxembourg to the UK
- Green Investment Group Limited on its acquisition of a 25% interest in the Westermost Rough offshore wind farm
- Kier Group plc on its £264 million rights issue
- Deutsche Börse on its proposed US$21 billion merger with the London Stock Exchange Group
- PwC on the administration of Lehman Brothers International (Europe)
