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 workforce.
Primarily based 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 not too long ago, he served as J.P. Morgan’s Head of European Insurance coverage Debt Capital Markets, the place he led the finance dialogue with the entire financial institution’s nationwide and world insurance coverage and reinsurance purchasers headquartered in Europe, with a give attention to private and non-private markets.
Throughout his time with J.P. Morgan, Bamsey led quite a few complicated and strategically crucial workstreams, encompassing acquisition financing, regulatory and score company relationships, different types of threat switch and in addition 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,” stated Jarad Madea, Chief Government Officer of HCMA. “I’m delighted to welcome Sébastien to the workforce as we proceed to develop our European reinsurance and capital markets functionality. By way of a broad bench of main trade 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 immediately’s aggressive market.”
Bamsey added, “I’m very excited to be becoming a member of an funding banking franchise with an unique give attention to the insurance coverage and reinsurance sectors, extremely deep trade information, and in depth capabilities throughout strategic advisory and all types of capital elevating and ILS/threat switch. I’ve been impressed working reverse the Howden workforce on prior modern transactions within the insurance coverage area 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 report 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 trade and Lloyd’s transactions.
