Bermuda-based consolidation vehicle is the third incarnation of Sir Clive Cowdery’s acquisitive Resolution
Resolution Life, an insurance consolidation vehicle founded by Sir Clive Cowdery, has completed a $3bn fundraising and added several of the investors who contributed, including JPMorgan and KKR, to its board.
Bermuda-based Resolution Life, founded in 2017, is Cowdery’s latest vehicle for buying and merging insurers.
A previous UK company, also called Resolution, acquired a series of businesses in the 2000s before merging with Britannic Group and then being sold to Hugh Osmond’s Pearl Group, later becoming Phoenix Group.
Cowdery relaunched the Resolution business a second time, buying Friends Life in 2009 and adding other businesses from Axa Sun Life and Bupa. This was then sold to Aviva in 2014.
This latest, third incarnation has acquired $5.7bn of life insurance policies from US insurer Symetra, and in October 2018, agreed to buy various insurance businesses from AMP in Australia and New Zealand for A$3bn.
In a statement on November 18, Resolution Life said it has raised $3bn from investors to finance further deals.
Representatives from JPMorgan, KKR, the Nippon Life Insurance Company, Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek, and USS, the UK’s largest pension fund, will join its board — alongside an unnamed Middle Eastern sovereign fund.
Credit Suisse Asset Management acted as a placement agent on the fundraising.
Cowdery, who is executive chair of the company, said: “Resolution Life will continue to grow and release trapped capital and stranded costs for life insurers across a number of markets. I am delighted to welcome our cornerstone investors onto our board.”
Source: Financial News
Can’t stop reading? Read more
Blackstone Becomes First $1tr Private Equity Manager
Passing that milestone puts the firm in the same league as mutual fund behemoths and banking giants. Private equity firms have sought to join a special club: managing $1 trillion in assets, a milestone that would put them in the same league as mutual fund behemoths...
KKR to buy chemical maker Chase in $1.3bn deal
KKR & Co said on Friday it would buy chemical maker Chase in an all-cash deal valued at about $1.3 billion including debt, to help the private equity firm bolster its holdings in the chemical specialty sector. Under the deal terms, KKR will buy all outstanding...
CVC raises €26bn for its ninth Europe/Americas Private Equity Fund
CVC is pleased to announce the successful close of CVC Capital Partners IX (“Fund IX”) at €26 billion, exceeding its €25bn target. Its predecessor, CVC Capital Partners VIII, was raised in 2020 and closed at € 22.3bn. CVC launched Fund IX in January 2023 and has...