Weil represented Goldman Sachs in providing a £5.2 billion bridge facility to support the $6.4 billion acquisition by Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc (JLT), a leading provider of insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits-related advice, brokerage, and associated service worldwide. The transaction closed April 01, 2019.

The Weil team included Banking & Finance partners Heather Viets and Chris McLaughlin (London); M&A senior consultant Ian Hamilton (London); Complex Commercial Litigation partner John Mastando III; Tax partner David Bower (Washington, D.C.); Banking & Finance associates Jacqueline Oveissi, Evan Nichols; Capital Markets associates Michael Stein and Joshua Van Kirk (Not Yet Admitted in New York); Tax associates Gary Silber and Irene Kim; Regulatory associate Timothy C. Welch (Washington, D.C.) and Antitrust/Competition associate Ariane Giannaros (London). (All in New York unless otherwise specified.)