Olivia Merrett

Olivia Merrett advises on a broad range of financial regulatory matters, including the regulatory aspects of U.K., cross-border and multijurisdictional M&A transactions, public markets matters, authorisations, change-in-control applications and regulatory renumeration regimes. Ms. Merrett regularly works on strategic and structuring matters, regulatory capital issues, compliance policies and procedures, client agreements and terms of business, incident management, investigations and legislative drafting. She also has significant experience providing ongoing Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulatory Authority compliance advice.

Ms. Merrett’s client base spans financial institutions, financial sponsors, insurers and (re)insurers, insurance intermediaries and cryptoasset, wealth management and fintech firms. She also supports industry organisations by assisting on consultation responses to proposed legislative changes.

Ms. Merrett’s representations include providing regulatory advice to:

• Corient in:
  • the acquisitions of Stonehage Fleming and Stanhope Capital Group to create a $430 billion independent ultra-high-net-worth wealth manager
  • the regulatory aspects of its acquisition of Bedrock Group, a Swiss-based independent multifamily office and wealth manager
• Kraken Technologies Limited in its $1.3 billion spin-off from Octopus Energy Group Limited
• Corebridge Financial, Inc. in its $22 billion merger with Equitable Holdings, Inc.
• Radian Group Inc. in its $1.7 billion acquisition of Inigo Limited
• JAB Insurance in its acquisition of Utmost Life and Pensions from Utmost Group plc
• SmartSearch, a portfolio company of Triple Private Equity Ltd, in its acquisition of Credas Technologies Ltd
• Starr International Company, Inc. in its acquisition of IQUW Group
• Rithm Capital Corp. in its acquisition of Crestline Management, L.P
• Sompo Holdings, Inc. in its $3.5 billion acquisition of Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
• CC Capital in its $2.2 billion going-private acquisition of Insignia Financial Ltd.

Before joining Skadden, Ms. Merrett was a senior associate at another global law firm.