Howden Capital Markets & Advisory (HCMA), the insurance coverage and reinsurance dealer’s capital markets and insurance-linked securities (ILS) specialist unit, has employed J.P. Morgan’s Sébastien Bamsey as Managing Director (MD), because the agency continues to construct out its European group.
Based mostly in London, Bamsey takes on his new position at HCMA on July fifteenth, 2024, and brings greater than 18 years of worldwide experience and expertise in offering company finance and capital markets recommendation to insurers and reinsurers.
Most lately, he served as J.P. Morgan’s Head of European Insurance coverage Debt Capital Markets, the place he led the finance dialogue with all the financial institution’s nationwide and world insurance coverage and reinsurance purchasers headquartered in Europe, with a concentrate on private and non-private markets.
Throughout his time with J.P. Morgan, Bamsey led quite a few advanced and strategically important workstreams, encompassing acquisition financing, regulatory and ranking company relationships, different types of danger switch and likewise bespoke, underwritten options.
“At HCMA, we’re dedicated to offering our purchasers with best-in-class M&A, capital and ILS transaction recommendation and help to attain their world development and capital wants,” mentioned Jarad Madea, Chief Government Officer of HCMA. “I’m delighted to welcome Sébastien to the group as we proceed to increase our European reinsurance and capital markets functionality. Via a broad bench of main business expertise, and the diversified sources throughout Howden, we offer state-of-the-art data-driven insights and analytics, giving our purchasers a strategic benefit in right now’s aggressive market.”
Bamsey added, “I’m very excited to be becoming a member of an funding banking franchise with an unique concentrate on the insurance coverage and reinsurance sectors, extremely deep business data, and in depth capabilities throughout strategic advisory and all types of capital elevating and ILS/danger switch. I’ve been impressed working reverse the Howden group on prior revolutionary transactions within the insurance coverage house and I really feel lucky to be becoming a member of such a gifted group of people.”
HCMA notes that Bamsey joins the agency throughout a interval of file exercise. Up to now 12 months alone, the corporate has participated in 28 introduced transactions with a mixed worth of greater than $7.5 billion. This consists of buy-side and sell-side M&A, disaster bonds, reinsurance sidecars, new firm formations, reciprocal alternate and Lloyd’s transactions.
