Ironshore International forms new office in Frankfurt, Germany

Ironshore International’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Tax Insurance unit has opened an office in Frankfurt, Germany, through Ironshore Agency in a move to expand its European presence.

Ironshore International has named Markus Messinger and Daniel Müller to lead the Frankfurt operation, serving German private equity and investment bank clients.

Messinger has been named senior Mergers & Acquisitions Underwriter and head of the M&A team for the Deutschland, Austria and Switzerland (DACH) region. Prior to joining Ironshore in 2017, he served for more than six years as a private attorney with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, advising on a range of private equity and corporate organizational transactions. He will report to Gareth Rees, EMEA Head of Mergers and Acquisitions.

Daniel Müller will be a Mergers & Acquisitions Underwriter for the DACH team, reporting to Messinger.  As an attorney with the corporate practice of Noerr for four years, he focused on various transactions within the acquisitions and real estate finance sectors.

“Ironshore has established the dedicated M&A presence in Frankfurt to better serve our German-speaking clients that demand a local offering with regional market expertise,” said Rowan Bamford, head of Ironshore’s global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and Tax.

Fiona Marry, managing director of Ironshore Europe, added: “M&A experts now located in the Frankfurt office reflects our international commitment to further invest in specialty lines within Continental Europe.”

Ironshore M&A and Tax specialists underwrite specialty coverages for complex transactional risk throughout its global platform, including Warranty & Indemnity as well as Tax Liability Insurance programmes.

Ironshore is a specialty property/casualty insurer based in Bermuda. Liberty Mutual Insurance has acquired Ironshore from Chinese conglomerate Fosun International for $2.94 billion in May 2017.

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