Matthew R. Roberts

Matt Roberts focuses on advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, investment transactions, reinsurance transactions and other corporate matters, primarily in the financial services industry. Significant U.S. and cross-border transactions include the representation of:

• American National Insurance Company in its $3.5 billion coinsurance transaction of a diversified block of life business to Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated
• Apollo Global Management, Inc. in its $11 billion merger with Athene Holding Ltd.
• Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. in its $1.1 billion acquisition by Brookfield Wealth Solutions
• BlackRock, Inc. in its:
  • $12.5 billion acquisition of Global Infrastructure Partners
  • $12 billion acquisition of HPS Investment Partners
  • acquisition of ElmTree Funds
• Brown & Brown in its $9.8 billion acquisition of Accession Risk Management Group, Inc.
• Core Specialty Insurance Holdings in its:
  • acquisition of American Surety Company
  • merger with Lancer Insurance Company, resulting in a combined business with over $1 billion in equity capital
  • acquisition of Hallmark Financial Services, Inc.’s excess and surplus lines operations
• Liberty Mutual Holding Company and its subsidiaries in its:
  • $2.5 billion sale of its Western European personal lines and small commercial insurance business to Generali
  • $1.5 billion sale of its Latin American personal lines and small commercial insurance business to HDI/Talanx
  • acquisition of State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company and its publicly traded subsidiary State Auto Financial Corporation
• Manulife Financial Corporation in its $937.5 million acquisition of Comvest Credit Partners
• Mubadala Capital in its multifaceted, multibillion-dollar strategic investment alliance with TWG Global
• Root, Inc. in its partnership with Carvana to develop integrated auto insurance solutions for Carvana’s online car buying platform and related $126 million investment in Root
• SiriusPoint Ltd. in its:
  • purchase of $733 million of SiriusPoint common shares and warrants from CM Bermuda Ltd.
  • special committee process regarding the exploration by Daniel Loeb and certain of his affiliates to take the company private
• The Travelers Companies, Inc. in its:
  • pending $2.4 billion sale of its Canadian business to Definity Financial Corporation
  • $435 million acquisition of Corvus Insurance Holdings, Inc.
  • acquisition of a strategic equity stake in Fidelis Insurance Holdings Limited
  • spin-off (as lead equity investor) of Fidelis Insurance Holding Limited’s managing general underwriter business
• Zurich Insurance Group in its acquisition of AIG’s global personal travel insurance business