Southern Europe

Our Southern Europe team is based in London and is committed to providing a market leading W&I insurance product and exceptional service on Southern European deals, with a particular focus on France, Belgium, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Our team has in-depth experience of M&A transactions throughout the Southern European region.

The ability to write up to €170 million any one risk

Historic Deal Stats

81

Deals written in the past 4 years

$41,985,607,139

Total deal value for the past 4 years

$3,211,575,984

Total limit placed for the past 4 years

Contact

Nicholas Lunn

Head of Southern Europe

Nicholas Lunn — Head of Southern Europe

+44 (0)20 3758 1826

nicholas.lunn@libertygts.com

Nick leads the Liberty GTS Mergers and Acquisitions team for Southern Europe.

Before joining the Liberty GTS team in February 2020, Nick spent three years at Willis Towers Watson where he was an Executive Director within the M&A Transactional Risks team. Nick was a senior member of the London management team and was responsible for leading, supervising and co-ordinating placements on all international M&A deals (outside the US and Canada).

Before joining Willis Towers Watson, Nick spent three years at another leading underwriter, departing as its UK Underwriting Manager. Prior to joining the W&I market in 2013 from an inhouse corporate counsel at EDF Energy PLC, Nick spent eight years training and qualifying as an M&A lawyer in the corporate department of international law firm, Dentons. Nick advised on numerous private and public cross border M&A deals, joint ventures and IPOs. Nick left Dentons in 2012 as a Senior Associate having also spent time on international secondments with Ughi e Nunziante in Rome, Dentons Paris and Dentons Dubai as well as client secondments to the London Stock Exchange plc and Total UK Limited.

Nick is a regular speaker and panellist at international seminars and conferences, contributor to leading industry journals, and is the co-author of the Practical Law Company Practice Note on W&I Insurance.

Barbara Magni

Senior Underwriter

Barbara Magni — Senior Underwriter

+44(0)7713 395778

barbara.magni@libertygts.com

Barbara graduated from Universita’ Cattolica of Milan with a Master Degree in Business Law and was admitted to the Milan Bar in 2010.

Barbara joined the Corporate Department of an Italian independent leading law firm in Milan, where she focused on Private M&A. While working in the London office, Barbara completed a Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course at The University of Law in London. Barbara joined Clyde & Co LLP (London) in 2014, qualifying as a solicitor in 2016. During her training contract she spent 6 months seconded to the W&I team at XL Catlin.

In 2016, Barbara joined Liberty GTS (where she previously worked for Liberty’s subsidiary Ironshore) as an underwriter in the M&A team in London underwriting warranty and indemnity insurance with a focus on Southern European M&A transactions.

Antonio Jesús Sánchez

Underwriter

Antonio Jesús Sánchez — Underwriter

+44 (0)20 3758 1763

antonio.sanchez@libertygts.com

Prior to joining Liberty GTS on January 2020, Antonio spent over three years and half as an associate at the corporate deparment of Hogan Lovells and Pérez-Llorca, based in Madrid. Since the beginning of his professional career, Antonio has advised national and international clients on all types of corporate transactions, and in particular, on high profile mergers and acquisitions (M&A) with respect to Spain and Latin America, cross-border transactions, capital markets transactions, corporate restructuring processes, and private equity deals. Antonio pursued his bachelors in Law and Business Administration at Universidad de Sevilla and received his master of laws degree from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, where he specialised in corporate law. Antonio is member of the Madrid Bar Association (ICAM).