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Insurance linked securities counsel: paid against a program, graded against a title.
A cat bond, a collateralized layer, a sidecar, a collateral release and a trigger argument are one seat in London and five in Bermuda. Before a general counsel signs the number, the question is which parts of that perimeter the seat can provably carry.
What are you buying when you buy insurance linked securities counsel?
Pick the lens that matches the brief on your desk. Each one is a different part of the same perimeter, and each one prices differently.
Swiss Re Capital Markets recorded 2025 as the sixth consecutive year in which global insured natural-catastrophe losses passed $100bn, with an estimated $12.3bn of net new cash flowing into the sector, in its Market Insights edition of February 2026. Live paper is standing obligation, not a closed file. The seat is permanent.
Every lens above is one workstream inside a single mandate. The full perimeter is mapped in section 03.
- $25.6bn
- 2025 catastrophe bond issuance122 transactions; 15 first-time sponsors
- Artemis, 8 January 2026
- 76%
- Share of 2025 issuance on indemnity triggersHighest on record; 73% in 2024
- Artemis, 8 January 2026
- 10 days
- UK vehicle authorization under PS9/25Down from four to six weeks, from 24 July 2025
- PRA PS9/25 via Linklaters, 29 July 2025
- 93.2%
- BSX share of 2025 cat bond issuance value91.8% in 2024
- BSX 2025 Year in Review, 9 February 2026
The number is set against a title. The work arrives as a program.
Compensation for this seat is negotiated against a grade - senior counsel, head of legal, general counsel. The obligation is set by an instrument stack that nobody at the table has written down.
Somewhere between a term sheet and a signed offer, a company decides what an insurance-linked securities lawyer is worth. That decision is almost always made against a title band, because a title band is the only thing an HR system can hold. The work, meanwhile, is set by something else entirely: the sponsor's or manager's whole capital program — catastrophe bond issuance, collateralized reinsurance, sidecars, collateral release, and the trigger and loss-development arguments that follow a bad year. The gap between those two things is the subject of this article, and it is not academic. It is the reason seats in this market stay open at the top of a four-to-seven-month band.
The market grew into that shape recently and quickly. Artemis recorded on 8 January 2026 that 2025 catastrophe bond issuance reached $25.6 billion, up 45 percent on $17.7 billion in 2024, across 122 transactions — the first year above 100 — with 15 first-time sponsors, a record. Read that last figure as a hiring signal rather than a market one. A first-time sponsor is a first-time legal build: a vehicle that has never been authorized, a trigger that has never been argued, a collateral account that has never been released. Fifteen of those in one year describes an employer base that is both larger and less experienced than it was three years ago, each new member of it discovering that the legal perimeter is wider than the offering document.
A catastrophe bond is a securitization, and its offering circular behaves like one. Say that once and then stop, because the four workstreams that follow issuance are insurance workstreams and they are the ones that recur. Collateral sits in trust. Release depends on an attachment threshold being met and a loss being developed. Commutation is a negotiation. A trigger definition written at term sheet governs an argument that may not happen for four years. The securitization skill gets the paper printed; the insurance skill decides what the paper costs when something burns.
This is where a buyer's instinct misleads. Sartori's London interview cohort — 750 structured interviews with legal buyers across the city — contains a segment of 46 general counsel and heads of legal at insurers, reinsurers, ILS managers and pension sponsors, interviewed over a rolling 24-month window. Of those 46, 29 said the ILS perimeter in their organization is written into no single job description. It is a set of approvals, not a role. The general counsel of a London-headquartered specialty (re)insurer described it to us as three separate sign-offs arriving from three separate committees, none of which believes it owns the whole. Hiring against that without naming it produces a lawyer who is technically qualified for the part of the job that was described.
The number is graded against a title. The work is graded against a program. Only one of the two is written down, and it is not the one that generates the obligation.
A catastrophe bond is one line in the program, not the program.
Seven workstreams sit inside a mature ILS program. Most job specifications name one or two of them, and the seat is priced against that shorter list.
One instrumentA standing program
- A single issuance One vehicle, one trigger, one offering circular. Legal effort is front-loaded and finite. The brief that gets written is usually this one.
- A layered placement Capital-markets paper sitting beside collateralized treaty and a sidecar. Two documentation traditions, one counterparty view, renewal by renewal.
- A standing program Issuance, treaty, sidecar, release, commutation and authorization all live at once, across domiciles, on different clocks. This is what actually reaches the seat.
The last column below is the one most briefs never fill in: which internal function signs each piece off. A seat that owns issuance but only reviews collateral release is a different seat, at a different price, from one that owns both.
| Workstream | What it produces | When the hours land | Who signs it off in-house |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catastrophe bond issuance | Vehicle incorporation, offering circular, reinsurance agreement, trust and collateral account documents | Front-loaded on a first issuance; a shelf refresh on repeat programs | General counsel, with the chief financial officer owning the capital decision |
| Collateralized reinsurance | Bilateral treaty, collateral trust, release schedule, counterparty security terms | Renewal-cycle work, twice a year, every year | Head of legal for reinsurance, alongside the treaty buyer |
| Sidecar formation | Segregated vehicle, quota-share treaty, investor subscription and side letters | At formation and again at every investor close | General counsel plus fund-side counsel where the investor is external |
| Collateral release and commutation | Release notices, loss-development schedules, commutation agreements, side-pocket resolutions | 12 to 24 months after a market-turning loss year | Head of legal with the chief risk officer |
| Trigger drafting | Index or parameter definitions, basis-risk disclosure, attachment and reset language | At term sheet, before any transaction document exists | In-house counsel sitting with the catastrophe modeling team |
| Vehicle authorization | Regulator application, business plan, scope of permissions, reporting taxonomy | Once per vehicle, per domicile, on the regulator's clock | Regulatory counsel or, in a small function, the group general counsel |
| Longevity and pension transfer | Captive reinsurance, longevity swap, scheme-side governance and covenant papers | Once, over a long build, then dormant | Scheme in-house legal and the sponsor's chief legal officer |
What the 2025 year actually issued
The shape of the issuance year tells a general counsel which of those workstreams will arrive first. Property catastrophe still carries almost all the volume, as the chart below shows, but the drafting novelty sits on the small line. Cyber paper crossed from experiment to repeatable structure in early 2026: Beazley's PoleStar Re 2026-1, at $300 million across three sub-layers over a term running to the end of 2028, is described as the first multi-layer cyber catastrophe bond, and Chubb's East Lane Re VII Series 2026-1, with a $150 million Class B tranche, as the first annual-aggregate one. Both require a systemic aggregation event defined in words that will survive a claim, and there is almost no precedent behind those words.
Peril novelty is not confined to cyber. Acrisure Re noted on 9 March 2026 that severe convective storm bonds have run at roughly a quarter to a third of total catastrophe bond issuance since 2017, against aggregate insured severe convective storm losses of about $200 billion across 2020 to 2024, some 2.5 times the preceding five-year period. A frequency peril changes attachment and reset language rather than the vehicle. That is a drafting specialization growing inside the property book, driven by loss experience and not by any rule change, and it is invisible to a job specification written around "catastrophe bond experience".
The consequence of a trigger definition is measured in years, not in review cycles. Jamaica's sovereign parametric catastrophe bond missed a payout on Hurricane Beryl in 2024 because central pressure did not clear the stated threshold, then hit a full trigger on Hurricane Melissa, the first recorded Category 5 landfall on the island, as Insurance Journal reported on 28 October 2025. Same instrument, same wording, two opposite outcomes one year apart. The lawyer who chose that threshold was in the room at term sheet, before any transaction document existed.
Three shapes of in-house legal function, and what each one can carry.
The same words on a job advertisement describe three different jobs. Which one it is depends entirely on how large the legal function around it already is.
Split across specialistsCarried by one seat
- Group legal at a (re)insurer Corporate and securities, regulatory affairs and investments each hold a slice. Deep on their slice, and structurally unable to see the whole.
- Divisional counsel on the platform A capital or reinsurance division with its own lawyer, reporting to group legal but commissioned by the capital side of the house.
- Single counsel at a manager One general counsel, in the investment governance, carrying issuance, treaty, release and authorization. Broad by design, thin by headcount.
The first shape is the one that misleads buyers most. At a Bermuda-headquartered reinsurer running a large third-party capital platform, the public legal-affairs structure lists nine distinct titled roles at and below general counsel: a group general counsel, a senior corporate counsel and company-secretary seat, six vice-president-level counsel split by specialism — corporate, regulatory affairs, two corporate and securities seats, investments, and delegated litigation — and one assistant-vice-president counsel. Not one of those titles says insurance-linked securities. The perimeter is real, it is being covered, and it is distributed across at least three of those seats without a named owner.
The second shape is the boutique. At a merged London and Zurich ILS manager, the entire in-house legal function is a single general counsel — but that seat sits on both the executive committee and the investment oversight committee, alongside the chief risk officer. That is a different job from the first shape in every respect except the title. It carries everything and reviews nothing, and it is embedded in investment governance rather than walled off as a support function. When a company advertises for a head of legal and means this, the candidate pool is small and the failure mode is depth, not breadth.
The third shape rarely calls itself ILS at all. A UK defined-benefit pension scheme reinsured £16 billion of longevity exposure — about a quarter of the scheme's total — through its own Guernsey captive with a US life reinsurer's operating subsidiary, on Ogier's account of 28 July 2014, the largest longevity risk transfer reported at the time. The sponsor is the buyer, the captive is the transformer, and the scheme's in-house legal team borrows capital-markets conventions it did not write. A search briefed as "catastrophe bond" will not find the lawyer who can do that, and a search briefed as "pensions" will not find one who can read a collateral schedule.
| Employer shape | Legal function | Where the perimeter sits | What one seat cannot carry |
|---|---|---|---|
| (Re)insurer with a third-party capital platform | Nine titled legal roles at and below general counsel, split by specialism | Divided across corporate and securities, regulatory affairs and investments | No single title says ILS, so the program has no owner and no single reviewer |
| Standalone ILS fund manager | One general counsel, seated on the executive and investment oversight committees | All of it, in one seat, next to the investment desk | Depth on any single instrument; the seat is a generalist by design and by headcount |
| Corporate sponsor or pension scheme | Scheme or corporate in-house legal, a captive, and an external panel | Inside the captive's reinsurance treaty and governance papers | Capital-markets documentation; the securities conventions are borrowed, never owned |
The same problem appears one level higher. When one Bermuda reinsurer announced a new group general counsel on 4 December 2020, Intelligent Insurer reported that the role sat on the chief executive's global leadership team and that the title had dropped the chief compliance officer element the predecessor's carried. The scope named in a general counsel title in this industry is not standardized and moves between holders, so it cannot be used as a proxy for what the seat actually holds.
Bermuda lists the paper. London is still writing the rules the paper would be listed under. A seat that only knows one of those two is half a seat, whatever the title says.
The supply problem is a route problem, not a headcount problem.
There is no shortage of insurance lawyers in London. There is a shortage of routes that produce someone who has done all seven workstreams, and the two obvious routes each miss half of them.
Mid-2024
Property-led sidecar capacity
Aon Securities via ArtemisTwo routes produce lawyers who can do this work, and neither produces all of it. The first is offshore private practice, and it is close to a closed loop: the whole ranked Bermuda insurance market is covered by six firms in the 2026 Chambers table, and movement runs between those six rather than importing from onshore. The second route is the underwriting floor. A&O Shearman advertises, as a characteristic of its London insurance team, lawyers with sector, regulatory or underwriting backgrounds — a firm selling the hybrid rather than the pure legal pedigree. That combination is the profile companies actually want when they hire this seat, and it is not a route anyone designs.
Sartori maps roughly 30,000 lawyers in London, and that map is built from law-firm and in-house legal records. It is honest to say what it does not see: the underwriting-floor route is close to invisible in it, because the years that matter were not spent in a legal role. Of the 7 ILS-perimeter mandates inside our 24 closed London in-house searches, our own map surfaced an underwriting-side candidate in only 2. In the other five the candidate reached the shortlist through a referral, and a referral is not a search method. That is a limit of our data, and it is the reason we treat this practice as a long-lead market rather than a database exercise.
Regulation is the second reason the bench stays short, and it is not a spike. The Prudential Regulation Authority finalized PS9/25 with effect from 24 July 2025, cutting vehicle authorization from four to six weeks to 10 working days for qualifying transactions, adding a 30-business-day grace period for collateral rollover, and permitting multiple risk-transformation transactions under a single arrangement, on Linklaters' summary of 29 July 2025. HM Treasury then published a response on 13 May 2026 legislating a second wave, with a new captive Insurance protected cell company category targeted for summer 2027, per Clifford Chance. The Bermuda Monetary Authority ran a parallel consultation on a Parametric Special Purpose Insurer class between 21 January and 27 February 2026, with registration fees of $10,000 restricted and $15,000 unrestricted, on Skadden's account of 13 February 2026. Two regulators, three legislative waves, one candidate pool.
The platform those cells sit on issues real paper: London Bridge 2 carried a £140 million Flood Re catastrophe bond, on Insurance Journal's account of 8 July 2026, which is the kind of public-sector cedent a London-based in-house team is most likely to meet first.
Set that against the domicile that actually holds the paper. The Bermuda Stock Exchange added 209 new ILS listings in 2025, up from 156 in 2024, reaching 746 listed ILS securities and $65.2 billion of nominal outstanding value, on its 2025 Year in Review of 9 February 2026. The Bermuda Monetary Authority registered 25 new special purpose insurers in 2025, its highest ever, plus ten collateralized insurers, with a further seven special purpose insurers in the first quarter of 2026, per Artemis on 20 April 2026. London's reform is real and the pipeline it creates is multi-year; it has not yet moved the listing. A candidate whose experience is Bermuda vehicle registrations and a candidate whose experience is a London platform cell hold different, non-substitutable knowledge, and both will answer yes to "have you done ILS work".
The cycle supplies the last reason. After Hurricane Ian in 2022, a sizeable share of collateralized retrocession capital was trapped going into the 1 January 2023 renewal, and side pockets were resolved progressively through 2023, several closing by November 2023 with no loss to fund investors, on Artemis reporting from that year. That is a 12-to-24-month wave of release and commutation work triggered by a loss year, not by a business plan. A legal function sized for a clean year is underweight in the year after a bad one, and hiring into that wave takes longer than the wave lasts.
What the number has to buy, and what no published band will tell you.
Two markets, two clocks, one candidate pool. A general counsel or chief legal officer grading this seat is working without a public price, which makes the perimeter the only honest anchor there is.
Start with the uncomfortable fact. There is no published compensation band for insurance-linked securities lawyers, in London or anywhere else. The only dated, publicly sourced London insurance pay point found for this article is a newly qualified rate: Legal Cheek reported on 30 July 2025 that one firm's London insurance team moved its newly qualified solicitors to £85,000, against £90,000 for the same firm's corporate and disputes newly qualified lawyers. That is general property and casualty insurance work, not ILS, and one grade at one firm is not a market. What it does show is the direction of the general market's instinct: it prices "insurance" below "corporate" at the entry grade, and it has no vocabulary at all for the hybrid seat this article describes.
In the absence of a band, buyers anchor on the softening cycle instead, and that is a mistake in the opposite direction. Guy Carpenter reported accelerated softening at the 1 January 2026 renewal, with its Global Property Catastrophe Rate-on-Line Index down 12 percent, the largest year-on-year reduction since 2014, and named strong investor appetite in the ILS market as part of the cause. Cheaper reinsurance does not mean a cheaper legal seat. AM Best made the point in the other direction on 28 April 2026, observing that London market participants are increasingly using catastrophe bonds, sidecars and aligned quota shares as standing cycle-management tools rather than opportunistic ones. A standing tool needs a standing owner.
Sartori's own telemetry says the same thing from the search side. In our quarterly survey of London in-house legal buyers, the second-quarter 2026 wave drew 62 responses; 41 of those buyers said that when reinsurance pricing softens they would rather widen an existing legal seat than open a new one. Widening a seat without repricing it is exactly how a perimeter and a number come apart. It also explains our counter-offer pattern: counter-offer incidence across the London in-house book runs at 32 percent, and in the insurance and asset-management segment the counter-offer usually arrives as a widened remit rather than as money.
London is a regulatory and arranging seat with a small domestic listing book and a large rulemaking pipeline running to 2027.
- The work is regulator-facing. The Prudential Regulation Authority supervises 568 insurers of all types, with insurance special purpose vehicles named as one category inside that total, per its Business Plan 2026/27 of 17 April 2026. Vehicle authorization is a specialism inside a specialism.
- The platform is one vehicle. Lloyd's London Bridge 2 lets syndicates and qualifying institutional investors open segregated cells without fresh regulatory approval, because the mandatory transaction terms were drafted once at platform launch, per Artemis of 3 August 2022. Per-cell legal work is comparatively templated.
- Market share is the caveat. The London Market Group put London at 8.3 percent of the global re/insurance market, up from 7.6 percent in 2020, while noting that Hong Kong now outpaces London on catastrophe bond transaction counts, as reported by Artemis on 20 May 2024.
- What to hire for: regulatory authorization, arranging and sponsor-side documentation, and the ability to read a Bermuda structure without owning it.
Bermuda is where the vehicles are registered and the paper is listed, and the legal pool there is small, ranked and largely self-supplying.
- The volume is the point. The Bermuda Stock Exchange carried 93.2 percent of global 144A and private catastrophe bond issuance value in 2025, up from 91.8 percent in 2024, on its Year in Review of 9 February 2026.
- The regime keeps subdividing. The Parametric Special Purpose Insurer class consulted on between 21 January and 27 February 2026 would create a narrower authorization track needing parametric-trigger drafting and derivative pre-clearance, on Skadden's 13 February 2026 reading.
- The credentials are why it holds. Bermuda has had full Solvency II equivalence since 24 March 2016 and NAIC Reciprocal Jurisdiction status since 2019, on the Association of Bermuda Insurers and Reinsurers' own account. Those two facts, not tax, are what keep US and EU cedants documenting there.
- What a London buyer should note: Bermuda experience is not portable into a London regulatory seat, and London experience does not register a special purpose insurer. Say which one you need in the brief. Bermuda carries no Sartori search constants and none are quoted here.
Two engagements, anonymized
Sartori has worked the London in-house market for more than ten years. Over the trailing three years we closed 24 in-house searches in this city with a completion rate of 93 percent, a typical timeline of four to seven months, and a median of 13 working days between offer and signature. Seven of those 24 carried an ILS perimeter. Two of them are described here as composites; no client, firm or lawyer is identified.
- A specialty carrier, first program. A London-headquartered specialty (re)insurer briefed us for "insurance counsel" ahead of a first catastrophe bond. Diligence on the brief found four workstreams inside it that the job description did not mention, including the vehicle authorization file and the collateral release mechanic. The seat was regraded from senior counsel to head of legal before it went to market, and closed at six months — inside our band, but only because the perimeter was fixed before the first approach, not after the first offer was refused.
- A pension sponsor, borrowed conventions. A corporate pension scheme buying longevity capacity through a captive needed reinsurance-treaty and captive-governance literacy rather than capital-markets drafting. Two shortlists built on catastrophe bond experience failed on that distinction before the brief was rewritten around the treaty. The search closed at seven months, at the top of our band. This is the segment where we place slowly, and the reason is that the brief and the market use the same words for different work.
The head of legal at a European ILS manager with a Bermuda platform put the practical version of all of this in one line to us: collateral release is the part the board asks about, and it is the part nobody was hired for. That is the sentence to hold when a job specification is being written. Price the workstreams the seat will own; name the ones it will only review; and if the program contains casualty sidecars or a captive, say so on the first page, because those two words change the candidate pool completely.
Our own view of where this goes is narrow and testable. Indemnity triggers now dominate the market, and an indemnity trigger means post-event loss adjustment on the paper it sits under. The outstanding catastrophe bond book ended 2025 at a record $61.3 billion, 24 percent above the end-2024 figure, on Artemis data published 8 January 2026. The next market-turning loss year will therefore produce a release and commutation wave against a larger base than the Hurricane Ian cycle did — on the same 12-to-24-month shape, into the same thin pool. Companies that name the release workstream in the seat now will be hiring in a market with a published clock. Companies that wait will be hiring in the wave.
Our in-house counsel recruiting practice starts from the perimeter rather than the title, and our search methodology sets out how a shortlist is built. For the wider hiring picture behind this seat, read the London and New York market comparison.
Common questions about insurance-linked securities counsel
What does an insurance linked securities counsel actually cover?
Seven workstreams, not one: catastrophe bond issuance, collateralized reinsurance, sidecar governance, collateral release, trigger drafting, vehicle authorization and longevity transfer. Most job specifications name one or two of them and price the seat against that. The program is what arrives. A cat bond is a securitization, and the offering document behaves like one — but the four workstreams that follow issuance are insurance workstreams, and they are the ones that come back every renewal and after every loss year.
Where does the seat sit inside a company?
Three shapes. At a large (re)insurer the perimeter is split across six or more specialist counsel seats; at an ILS manager one general counsel carries all of it. The third shape is a sponsor — a corporate or a pension scheme — whose in-house legal team owns a captive and buys capital-markets documentation it did not write. Each shape fails differently, and the failure is predictable from the shape.
Why does a catastrophe bond seat stay open for four to seven months?
Because the route in is narrow. Sartori closed 24 London in-house searches over three years, and the subset carrying an ILS perimeter ran at the top of that four-to-seven-month band, not the middle. The candidates who can do all of it were trained inside a small set of offshore and London teams, and the underwriting-floor route into the work is almost invisible on paper.
Did the July 2025 PRA reform make London a cheaper place to hire this seat?
Not yet. PS9/25 cut UK vehicle authorization from four-to-six weeks to 10 working days on 24 July 2025, but the Bermuda Stock Exchange still carried 93.2 percent of 2025 catastrophe bond issuance value. The reform changes what a London seat can be asked to do; it has not yet changed where the paper is listed, and a job specification written against the reform rather than against the current book will over-scope the hire.
What should a general counsel put in the job description?
Name the instruments, not the label. Of 46 in-house buyers in Sartori's London cohort, 29 said the ILS perimeter is written into no single job description in their organization. Write down which of the seven workstreams the seat owns, which it reviews and which stays with external counsel. That single page is worth more than a seniority band, because it is the only document that makes two offers comparable.
Is there a published pay band for insurance-linked securities lawyers?
No. No public band exists for this work. The one dated London insurance grade published in 2025 was a newly qualified rate of £85,000 at a single firm, against £90,000 for the same firm's corporate and disputes newly qualified lawyers (Legal Cheek, 30 July 2025) — general insurance work, not ILS. Anyone quoting an ILS band is quoting a private sample, and the buyer should ask whose.
Regulator texts, exchange filings, trade-press deal data and our own London telemetry.
Vehicle mechanics come from the PRA, HM Treasury and the Bermuda Monetary Authority through counsel summaries. Issuance and capital figures come from Artemis, Aon Securities and the Bermuda Stock Exchange. The compensation point comes from the legal press.
Sources & further reading
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- Artemis — Catastrophe bond market records that were broken in 2025 (8 January 2026) artemis.bm ↗
- Artemis — Bermuda Stock Exchange grows value of cat bond and ILS listings 16.4% to $65.2bn in 2025 (12 January 2026) artemis.bm ↗
- Insurance Business — Bermuda Stock Exchange seizes 93% of ILS market as cat bond issuance explodes (11 February 2026) insurancebusinessmag.com ↗
- Artemis — Bermuda's SPI and collateralized insurer uptake maintains momentum in Q1, reporting Bermuda Monetary Authority data (20 April 2026) artemis.bm ↗
- Skadden — Bermuda Proposes New Parametric Special Purpose Insurance Class (13 February 2026) skadden.com ↗
- Linklaters — PRA finalises changes to UK ISPV framework (29 July 2025) linklaters.com ↗
- Skadden — PRA Announces Reform to the UK Insurance Special Purpose Vehicle Regime (August 2025) skadden.com ↗
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- Artemis — London Bridge 2 pipeline remains healthy: Lloyd's Deputy CFO Cliff (20 March 2025) artemis.bm ↗
- Artemis — Lloyd's new LB2 London Bridge ILS structure (3 August 2022) artemis.bm ↗
- Insurance Journal — London Moves to Expand Influence in $140 Billion ILS Market (8 July 2026) insurancejournal.com ↗
- Artemis — London market ILS platform still seen as lagging, reporting a London Market Group report (20 May 2024) artemis.bm ↗
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- Aon — Alternative Capital Reaches $121B Record High: Aon ILS Report, 19th edition (28 August 2025) aon.mediaroom.com ↗
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- Artemis — January reinsurance renewal 'accelerated softening' drives double-digit declines: Guy Carpenter (29 December 2025) artemis.bm ↗
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- Swiss Re, Insurance-Linked Securities Market Insights, Edition XXXIX (February 2026), as reported by Captive.com, 18 February 2026 captive.com ↗
- Beazley — Beazley launches the market's first cyber catastrophe bond (2026) beazley.com ↗
- Artemis — Chubb opts to pursue first ever annual aggregate cyber catastrophe bond artemis.bm ↗
- Artemis — Hurricane Ian ILS fund side pockets and trapped capital resolution continues (2023) artemis.bm ↗
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- Ogier — Ogier in Guernsey advises on £16 billion longevity risk transfer transaction (28 July 2014) ogier.com ↗
- Legal Cheek — RPC increases NQ lawyer salaries to £90k for London commercial and disputes teams, £85k for insurance (30 July 2025) legalcheek.com ↗
- Sartori & Partners — Fund Finance and Subscription-Line Counsel: Demand Outstrips Supply ↗
- Sartori & Partners — AIFMD Depositary and Fund-Structuring Lawyers ↗
Issuance, outstanding stock, trigger mix and deal counts are Artemis full-year 2025 measurements published 8 January 2026. Sidecar and alternative-capital figures are Aon Securities measurements at the dates stated. Listing share is the Bermuda Stock Exchange's own 2025 Year in Review. UK vehicle mechanics are PS9/25 and HM Treasury's 13 May 2026 response as summarized by counsel. The single pay figure measures a newly qualified grade in general insurance work at one firm, not ILS practice. Sartori figures are London in-house program constants and are reviewed by hand before publication.
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