McGill dives into Central Europe with new hubs and top reinsurance hires
Specialist re/insurance brokerage McGill and Partners has expanded into the Central European reinsurance market by launching new offices in Hannover, Germany and Zurich, Switzerland, and onboarding seasoned hires with Guy Carpenter, Aon and Swiss Re pedigree. The new hubs will focus on facultative reinsurance, offering a wide array of solutions.
McGill said the move follows “significant talent acquisition” and strong international growth for the firm in the last three years. It aims to further strengthen and support its strategy to develop specialist reinsurance broking capability that matches the needs of European businesses.
The new offices will focus on facultative reinsurance, leveraging the company’s expertise in this area. McGill and Partners now has a presence in the UK, US, Bermuda, Australia, Ireland, Germany and Switzerland.
The German team will be led by Ulrich Moeller, who has over 30 years of experience, has worked for Guy Carpenter, Aon, Junge and Hannover Re. Nicklas Heger will also be part of the team and was previously at Guy Carpenter designing and placing high-profile European reinsurance risks.
The team in Zurich includes Antonio Simone, who joins from Guy Carpenter having previously spent 24 years at Swiss Re; Vito Modugno, who has also worked for Guy Carpenter and Swiss Re, and Arjan Tichelaar who also joins from Guy Carpenter having previously been at Aon.
Paul Summers, partner and head of facultative reinsurance, said, “These new offices are an exciting development for McGill and Partners as a whole, but especially for the facultative reinsurance team. By opening offices in Zurich and Hannover, we will be closer to the capital providers and to our reinsurance clients in the region, ensuring we are able to be nimble and create solutions and service propositions for whatever circumstance clients require.”
Steve McGill, founder and CEO of McGill and Partners, said: “We are excited to be expanding our European reinsurance offering and increasing our presence in the reinsurance market on the continent of Europe. We have become known for our talent acquisition strategy and as we build these teams, we will continue to carefully handpick the right colleagues. The German and Swiss teams are led by local industry experts with decades of knowledge and experience to support our European reinsurance growth strategy. I’m excited to see what success we can achieve in the coming months and years.”
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