Services
Butterfly provides consulting services for mergers and acquisitions with respect to blocks of insurance, entire companies, and reinsurance for both buyers and sellers.
Sellers or ceding companies
Butterfly provides services for sellers and ceding companies, from block identification to transaction structuring.
- Identify blocks or companies that could be marketed
- Identify potential risks, both to the transaction and afterwards, in disposing of business
- Advice on reorganizing prior to sale in order to optimize continuing operations
- Practical assistance in negotiating transaction terms and documents including reps & warranties
Buyers or Reinsurers
Guidance for potential acquirers and reinsurers, from target identification to negotiation and administration.
- Identify potential target acquisitions
- Identify potential risks in a transaction
- Advice on optimizing transaction administration
- Assistance negotiating transaction terms and documents including reps & warranties
Reinsurance Transactions
Butterfly provides services for ceded, assumed, and retroceded reinsurance transactions, backed by decades of expertise.
- Advice on proper structuring of arrangements
- Identify potential targets for reinsurance and reinsurers
- Assistance negotiating transaction terms and documents including reps & warranties
- Identify risks that could prevent or complicate transactions
Capital Planning
Advisory support to optimize corporate structures, business organization, and capital allocation.
- Optimize capital allocation through structure and organization
- Use of reinsurance and M&A to improve capital position
- Practical means of managing capital
Expert Witness
Independent expertise and testimony across disputes, arbitration, and litigation in reinsurance matters.
- Arbitration and litigation support
- Representation for reinsurers, ceding companies, regulators, and more
- Independent consulting and reports not involving testimony
- Active participation as part of a legal team
Reinsurance Arbitrator
John is currently pursuing certification by ARIAS to provide arbitration services.
- Certification in progress (ARIAS)
- Arbitration in complex reinsurance matters
Strategic Planning
Comprehensive strategy services to maximize returns and guide business direction.
- Advice on optimizing return on capital
- Entering or exiting businesses
- Guidance on international operations
- Capital allocation strategies
Business Management
Hands-on management support from profit improvement to staff performance and global expertise.
- Profit improvement (close or grow lines of business)
- Turnarounds and refocusing business plans
- Improving staff performance with existing and new staff
- Establishing clear standards for staff
- Aligning business actions with corporate objectives
- US and global business expertise
Enterprise Risk Management
Practical risk management advisory for executives and boards, delivered by a Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst.
- Practical advice on managing enterprise risk
- Advising executives and boards on pragmatic ERM
- Identification of risks and mitigants