Martin advises on mergers & acquisitions, reorganisations, joint ventures, start-ups, commercial, and regulatory matters, as well as insurance products.
Clients include Lloyd’s managing agents, corporate members, brokers, MGAs, (re)insurers, run-off consolidators, loss adjusters, and claims handlers.
Martin has been praised for his “quiet, effective, good humoured approach and mastery of deals and detail” and his “user friendly, get things done” approach. Martin has also been recognized as one of the world’s leading insurance lawyers by The International Who’s Who of Insurance & Reinsurance Lawyers, and is included in the latest edition of the Best Lawyers in the UK publication for insurance law. Others have noted that Martin is “very hands on and an excellent technical lawyer” and that he is “extremely responsive, very commercial, and a pleasure to work with.”
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Martin has acted on a number of major transactions for clients over the years including:
- advising on numerous M&A deals, for both sellers and buyers, including in the run-off sector
- advising on numerous renewal rights deals
- advising on Part VII transfers
- advising on numerous intra-group restructuring across multiple jurisdictions
- advising on corporate and commercial joint venture arrangements / strategic alliances
- advising on a change of control application on the largest P&C deal to date
- advising on the overhaul of a client’s corporate governance framework following a s166 regulatory enquiry
- advising brokers, insurers, retailers and others on various distribution and other commercial arrangements
- advising on various start-ups
- advising a number of the leading W&I insurers/MGAs as well as also assisting corporate and other clients on their purchase of W&I and other insurance
- Martin is a member of the City of London Law Tech Sounding Board
- Martin is also a qualified mental health first aider
- Martin is ranked in various legal directories
- MA Jurisprudence (Oxon), 1987 - 1990