Nick Bonsall > Slaughter and May > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Slaughter and May remains at the forefront of the insurance industry through the ‘depth and breadth‘ of its offering, with a strong offering across the full range of transactional, regulatory, and strategic matters. Able to draw upon the firm’s leading regulatory capital, financial regulation, and insurance disputes teams among other practices, the firm is well-placed to comprehensively service the most high-profile insurers in their major, cross-border mandates. Jonathan Marks heads the insurance group with a broad corporate and insurance practice that covers the life and non-life sectors. Nick Bonsall deploys his ‘encyclopaedic knowledge of insurance regulation‘ in addition to his experience across the wider financial services sector. Natalie Cook and Nick Pacheco are both part of the wider corporate and financial services group, and have advised major insurers on their multijurisdictional operations in respect of strategy and structuring issues. Senior counsel Thomas Peacock and Edward Steward are also of note, bringing expertise in the risk transfer market, and insurance and banking business transfer schemes respectively. Craig Cleaver retired from partnership in December 2022 and Robert Chaplin  departed the firm in October 2022 to join Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (UK) LLP.

Fielding a team of ‘high-quality lawyers with excellent market knowledge and commercial acumen’, Slaughter and May handles a broad range of financial services regulatory matters, including advisory issues, such as policy developments, and the regulatory aspects of large-scale transactions. Practice leader Jan Putnis services a diverse roster of financial institutions, with notable expertise in cross-border corporate and commercial transactions, while Nick Bonsall acts for insurers, banks and asset managers, demonstrating a keen interest in the EU/UK regulatory regimes for solvency/own funds and governance. Other key contacts in the team include senior counsels Kristina Locmele and Tim Fosh, and ‘pragmatic’ David Shone. Head of the EU financial regulation practice Sabine Dittrich joined the firm from UBS Asset Management in January 2023.