Experience

• • Banco Safra, one of the largest private banks in the Brazil, and holding companies within the Safra family’s multibillion-dollar financial services group, in five consolidated LCIA arbitrations and related proceedings in New York, Gibraltar, Brazil and Switzerland against Alberto Safra. The disputes concerned Alberto Safra’s challenge to family shareholdings as well as governance decisions related to the companies. The parties reached a global settlement of all disputes.
  • Kelso & Company in its strategic growth investment in Beacon Communications, a provider of critical communications and security technology solutions.
  • A Blackstone funded reinsurance vehicle in its strategic partnership with F&G Annuities & Life.
  • MetLife in its co-investment with General Atlantic in Chariot Reinsurance, an independent Bermuda-based Class E life and annuity reinsurance company.
  • Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Company, a subsidiary of MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, in its agreement with the founding family of W. R. Berkley Corporation, a leading property and casualty insurance carrier, including acquisition of 15% of shares in W. R. Berkley Corporation in a transaction valued at approximately $3.8 billion.
  • Fortitude Re, a Carlyle Group portfolio company, in the offering of $750 million of 6.250% senior unsecured notes due 2030.
  • Resolution Life in its $9.7 billion strategic reinsurance agreement with Protective, a U.S. subsidiary of Dai-ichi Life Holdings.
  • Manulife, a Canadian multinational insurance company and financial services provider, in its $5.4 billion reinsurance agreement with Reinsurance Group of America, including $2.4 billion of long-term care reserves.