Latham Represents Blackstone Credit & Insurance in Strategic Transaction With AmTrust Financial Services for AmTrust’s Global MGA and Fee Businesses

AmTrust Financial Services, Inc, a global specialty property casualty insurer, and Blackstone Credit & Insurance (BXCI), announced a definitive agreement under which AmTrust and funds managed by BXCI will partner in the spinoff of certain of AmTrust’s Managing General Agencies (MGAs) and fee businesses in the US, United Kingdom, and Continental Europe into a new, independent company. AmTrust and the newly formed company will enter into a 10-year capacity agreement through which AmTrust will remain underwriter of the existing books of business offered through the MGAs. The transaction has been approved by AmTrust’s Board of Directors. It is expected to close by year-end 2025, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

Latham & Watkins LLP represents Blackstone Credit & Insurance in the transaction with a Hybrid Capital team led by partners Stelios Saffos and Peter Sluka, Global Chairs of Latham's Hybrid Capital Practice, and partners Jordan Miller, Salvatore Vanchieri, Huw Thomas, Jon Fox, Fergus Wheeler, and Paul Yin, with associates Ian Lachow, Alex Gulino, Ariel Gershoig, Drew O’Sullivan, Tian Lin,* Andrea Fernanda Olaya Gomez, Hafsa Raza, and with assistance from Harris Scott. Advice was also provided on tax matters by partners Jocelyn Noll and Sean Finn, with associates Jacob Nagelberg and Nicole Lim; on insurance regulatory matters by counsel Alexander Traum and Tim Scott; on financial regulatory matters by partner Ignacio Gómez-Sancha, with associates Gary Whitehead and Paloma Arizón; on antitrust matters by partners Héctor Armengod and Jana Dammann, with associates Giuseppe Liotine, Mario Barka, and Niklas Brüggemann; on intellectual property matters by partner Jeff Tochner, with associate Sebastian Moss; on benefits matters by counsel Rifka Singer; and on real estate matters by associate Thomas Ficchi.

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