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Rob focuses on the insurance and asset management sectors, advising on international and domestic reinsurances, mergers, acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures. 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 U.K.-, Europe-, U.S.- and Bermuda- based insurers, reinsurers, brokers and intermediaries, and asset managers. Rob counsels on regulatory issues (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.

Since December 2021, Marc is self-employed and focuses on advising insurers on solving complex insurance-related projects, in particular derisking insurance balance sheets through legacy transactions or retrocession of longevity risk. In addition, Marc is working with the ClaimsCarbon team on quantifying CO2 emissions of claims handling. Previously Marc was a partner at TigerRisk Partners where he ran the EMEA region and the Global Life practice. Prior to that, Marc led Aon’s analytics team and structured solutions team for EMEA. He led several unique M&A transactions and complex life reinsurance solutions. Before that, Marc was M&A banker at Salomon Brothers focusing on insurance M&A across Europe. Marc is a life actuary by training with 34 years of experience.

Pretty is the Chief Executive Officer at Just Group, and Managing Director of the Defined Benefit Solutions team.

A subject-matter expert in bulk annuities she has significant practical experience in driving change, innovation and creating sustainable growth.

She joined Just Group in 2022 from Athora, the specialist insurance and reinsurance consolidator, where she was Head of New Business and Pensions. Prior to this, she held senior roles including Head of Pricing and Execution for Pension Risk Transfer at Legal & General, and Head of Insurance and Pensions Solutions at Deutsche Bank

Pretty holds a PhD in Physics from Imperial College London