Ivor Edwards
Partner & European head of the corporate insurance group,
Clyde & Co LLP
Ivor focuses on advising insurance companies, Lloyd's vehicles, brokers and third party insurance intermediaries. He has experience of all types of corporate and commercial insurance agreements, particularly M&A (both Lloyd's and companies market), joint ventures, start-ups and corporate reorganisations along with distribution and broker arrangements.
Ivor also focuses on reinsurance and regulatory capital solutions.
Prior to becoming a lawyer, Ivor worked for a loss adjuster and an insurance broker and is quoted in a recent independent report by Chambers - "Ivor Edwards receives significant acclaim as a corporate insurance specialist with a strong background of working in the insurance market".
Experience:
• Sale of QBE's Italian and Spanish medical mal-practice insurance portfolio
• Sale of QBE's disease book by way of reinsurance
• Acquisition of Asta Managing Agency by Paraline, Skuld and Tawa
• Acting for a life company in relation to a £850 million buy-in/buy-out of a pension scheme
• Establishment of the Lloyd's syndicates of Acappella and Pionner
• Investment, joint venture arrangements and distribution arrangements in relation to a number of MGAs and retail life intermediaries
• A range of group reorganisation, regulatory and distribution matters including for the Post Office and VW
• Acting for AIG on a European wide distribution arrangement, acquisition and cross-border merger