Suramericana S.A. agrees to purchase the Latin American business from RSA Insurance Group
Posse Herrera Ruiz and Demarest advised RSA INSURANCE GROUP, one of the world’s leading multinational quoted insurance groups, in the sale, through one of its subsidiaries, of its Latin American business in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, to Suramericana S.A., one of the main insurance groups in Colombia and Central America.
The transaction, subject to regulatory approvals in every jurisdiction, vas valued at £403 million (approx. US$614 million).
Execution Date: September 8, 2015.
LEGAL ADVISORS
Counsel to RSA Insurance
-Linklaters
Partner Dan Schuster-Woldan and associates Dominic Kendal-Ward, Matthew Hearn and Leticia Alcocer in London, partner Alberto Luzárraga in São Paulo and partnera Conrado Tenaglia in New York
-Pérez Alati, Grondona, Benites, Arntsen & Martínez de Hoz (h)
Partners Diego Serrano Redonnet, Fernando Zoppi, Maximiliano Batista and Luis Barry and associates Pedro Menendez San Martin and Dolores Reimundes in Buenos Aires
-Demarest Advogados
Partners André Alarcon, Gabriel Ricardo Kuznietz and Bruno de Luca Drago and associates Milena Mundim, Carolina Taunay Joop, Carlos Eduardo Orsolon, Beatriz Bistulfi and Aline Maria Mendonça in São Paulo
-Claro & Cía
Partner Jorge Martín and associate Francisca Larraín in Santiago
-Posse Herrera Ruiz
Partner Jaime Cubillos and associates Susana Gómez and Juan Pablo Puerto in Bogotá
-Creel, García-Cuéllar, Aiza y Enriquez SC
Partners Eduardo Gonzalez, Leonel Pereznieto and Mauricio Serralde and associates Allan Olmedo and Natalia Pichón in Mexico City
-Guyer & Regules
Partner Diego Baldomir in Montevideo
Counsel to Suramericana
-Hogan Lovells LLP
Partners Nicola Evans, Nigel Read, Victor Fornasier, Michael Thomas, Karen Hughes, Mark Jones, Sahira Khwaja, Elizabeth Slattery and Edward Brown and associates Richard Diffenthal, Jonathan Russell, Nina Tulloch, Philippa Verrechia, Ashley Cooper, Sarah Selvey- Clinton, Tom Eyre Brook, Aniko Adam, Andrew Linch, Matthew Sharkey, Oliver Spratt and Beth Sheehan in London, partners Isabel Carvalho and associates Arthur Amaral and Diego Carvajal in São Paulo, partner Luis Perez and associate Pedro Martinez in Miami, partner Jason Kaplan in New York and partner Javier Gazulla and counsel Juan Garicano in Madrid
-Allende & Brea Abogados
Partners Pablo Louge, Laura Santanatoglia, Nicolas Grandi and Julian Peña and associates Marcos Patrón Costas, Laura Kurlat, Juan Alberch, Lucia Ibarreche, Marco Rizzo Jurado, Federico Rossi and Leandro Verteramo in Buenos Aires
-Cascione Pulino Boulos & Santos Advogados
Partners Eduardo Boulos and Eduardo Juaçaba in São Paulo
Larraín Rencoret Urzúa Abogados
Partners Felipe Rencoret Prieto and José Miguel López and associates Héctor Rencoret, Luis Alberto Izquierdo, Nicolás Reyes, Sebastián Garrido, María Isabel Villagrán, Daniel Cristi, Pablo Fernandez, Constanza Yáñez, Marcelo Alarcón and Pablo Bravo in Santiago
-Esguerra Barrera Arriaga-Asesores Jurídicos
Partners Andrés Flórez, Alfonso Miranda and Catalina Herrán and associates Laura Tovar, Victor Ayalde, Nicolás Arocha and Marieann Fraser in Bogotá
-Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes SC
Partners Ricardo Maldonado and Martín Sánchez and associate Luis Antonio Rutz in Mexico City
Arcia Storace Fuentes Medina Abogados
Partners Dolores Storace, Andrea Medina and Sebastián Arcia in Montevideo.

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