Tyson Oladokun
Senior Associate
Bermuda
Tyson Oladokun is a senior associate in Walkers' Insurance practice group based in Bermuda.
Tyson has experience advising large multinational insurance and reinsurance companies, intermediaries, private equity investors and other key stakeholders on insurance and reinsurance related matters.
He has acted on a range of M&A, Lloyd's and ILS transactions, including collateralised reinsurance, sidecars and catastrophe bonds. Tyson has also advised clients on FCA regulatory matters.
Experience and recent work
Prior to joining Walkers, Tyson was an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher (UK) LLP in the Corporate Insurance team in London. Previously, Tyson worked as an insurance associate at RPC and Ince & Co in London.
Tyson's experience includes:
• Acted as deal counsel to a global (re)insurance group and its special purpose reinsurer in connection with a US$150 million catastrophe bond issuance, involving multiple classes of notes under an established ILS programme.
• Acted as deal counsel to a leading international reinsurer on a US$175 million fully collateralised retrocessional catastrophe bond transaction, providing protection against major U.S. catastrophe industry loss events, structured through an Irish special purpose vehicle.
• Acted as deal counsel to an Asia-Pacific based insurer and affiliated reinsurer in connection with a US$45 million issuance of participating notes to support reinsurance coverage.
• Acted for two major insurance groups on a UK Part VII insurance business transfer, involving the court-sanctioned transfer of insurance business between carriers.
• Acted for a large multinational insurer on a complex corporate transaction involving shareholder distributions, new investor participation through a new holding company structure, and the acquisition of an entire group, with an aggregate transaction value of approximately US$6 billion.
• Acted for an international insurance group on a £1.2 billion reinsurance-to-close and loss portfolio transfer, finalising the closure of a Lloyd’s syndicate year of account.
• Acted for a Northern European private equity sponsor on the US$85 million acquisition of an international logistics group.
• Advised an international insurance broking group on a US$79 million acquisition of a financial services intermediary specialising in mortgage broking and wealth management advisory services.
• Advised an international insurance broking group on a £2 million acquisition of a UK insurance brokerage.
• Advised a global insurance distribution group on a £12 million acquisition of a UK insurance and financial solutions brokerage.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- England and Wales (2020)
Education:
- Bachelor of Laws - LLB, University of Southampton
- Legal Practice Course - University of Law
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