Robert Chaplin
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Insurance: Non-contentious
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About
Provided by Robert Chaplin
Practice Areas
Robert Chaplin is head of the firm’s Financial Institutions Group in Europe.
Mr. Chaplin primarily focuses on the insurance and asset management sectors, advising on international and domestic mergers, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and strategic reinsurances. He has extensive experience in transactions involving financial sponsors and their in-house (re)insurers, asset managers, portfolio companies and other private capital-owned vehicles. His clients include a diverse range of multinational, U.K.-, Europe-, U.S.- and Bermuda-based insurers, reinsurers, brokers and intermediaries — including well-known participants in both the Lloyd’s and London Market — and asset managers.
Mr. Chaplin also counsels on emerging and long-standing regulatory issues and developments (with a particular emphasis on prudential matters, including Solvency II and Solvency UK), schemes, restructurings and reorganizations, capital raisings, life and non-life portfolio transfers, longevity transactions, and distribution and other material commercial agreements. In addition to his extensive transactional and advisory insurance practice, Mr. Chaplin works closely with Skadden’s international litigation and arbitration practitioners in London and around the world to advise market participants on complex, high-stakes disputes.
Publications
Mr. Chaplin writes and speaks extensively on insurance, banking regulatory and asset management matters. He is responsible for the firm’s “The Standard Formula” insurance newsletter and podcasts — which focus on Solvency II, Solvency UK and related matters — “The Capital Ratio” banking regulatory newsletter and “The Preferred Return” asset management newsletter.
Chambers Review
UK
Robert Chaplin advises on a diverse range of non-contentious insurance matters, encompassing business transfer schemes, pension de-risking matters and M&A.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Rob is an industry expert who is particularly good in Solvency II regulation and the impact this has on M&A."
"Robert is a very smart, creative and service-orientated lawyer."
"Robert is an excellent advisor with deep technical knowledge and astute commercial awareness.He is a pleasure to work with."
"Rob is an industry expert who is particularly good in Solvency II regulation and the impact this has on M&A."
"Robert is a very smart, creative and service-orientated lawyer."
"Robert is an excellent advisor with deep technical knowledge and astute commercial awareness.He is a pleasure to work with."