Bio

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. He has been repeatedly ranked in Chambers UK, in which clients describe him as “incredibly pragmatic in his approach to complex issues,” as well as “innovative, hard-working and very knowledgeable.” He also has been named a Key Lawyer in The Legal 500 UK. Before joining Skadden, he worked at a Magic Circle firm in London for 25 years, including for more than 16 years as a partner.