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Rosamund Wood
Work Department
Rosamund is a senior associate in our pensions team with considerable experience advising on risk transfer transactions. She advises insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries and pension scheme trustees and sponsoring employers on a range of structures transferring both longevity and asset-risk, and has acted on some of the largest and most complex residual risks transactions executed to date. Rosamund also advises insurer and reinsurer clients on a range of regulatory matters with a particular focus on Solvency II and the Matching Adjustment. Recent experience includes: • advising on the use of pension scheme sponsor-owned captive reinsurers in connection with the transfer of scheme liabilities; • advising insurers on the conditions for use of the Matching Adjustment applicable to assets and liabilities; • advising an insurer on a high value bulk purchase annuity agreement with contingent collateral features; • advising Reinsurance Group of America on a £5bn longevity swap with the Barclays Retirement Fund; • advising Legal & General on the £4.6bn residual risks bulk annuity transaction with the Rolls-Royce Pension Fund.
Position
Principal Associate
Lawyer Rankings
London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
(Rising stars)Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP
cover the full scope of insurance work, with established strengths in life insurance, namely in pension longevity and de-risking matters, insurance broking M&A, and work around start-ups in the insurance space, particularly those with private equity and US-based funding. The firm’s global footprint lends the firm to handling complex cross-border mandates, just as its sector specialism allows it to undertake the full range of M&A, regulatory, and sector-specific transactions. Hugo Laing heads the practice being a specialist in insurance transactions and life insurance. Martin Mankabady is the co-head of the firm’s global insurance group, advising non-life businesses that include brokers, insurers, and major tech companies with insurance-related activities, and Paula Gaddum in Manchester leads on non-contentious regulatory work. Adriana Cotter regularly advises overseas finance clients on investment into the UK insurance market, and principal associate Rosamund Wood covers the crossover between pensions and insurance.
Lawyer Rankings
- Rising stars London > Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Insurance: corporate and regulatory London > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Education: institutions
- Employment > Health and safety
- Public sector > Infrastructure (parliamentary)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Transport > Rail
- Investment fund formation and management > Retail funds
Firm Rankings
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Public sector > Education: schools
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Investment fund formation and management > Hedge funds
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > International business reorganisations
- Public sector > Local government
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Real estate > Planning
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Industry focus > TMT
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Employment > Immigration
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital