Willis Towers Watson, Global Captive Practice

Willis Towers Watson’s dedicated captive professionals are located at the very heart of the insurance markets and in every major captive domicile. We manage insurance facilities across a wide spectrum of industries, all tailored to individual strategies and operating models. Our integrated teams help you strengthen your organization by designing and implementing solutions that respond appropriately to both traditional and emerging risks.

Willis Towers Watson, Global Captive Practice
Willis Towers Watson
51 Lime Street
London
EC3M 7DQ
United Kingdom
+44 203 124 6000

Profile:

Willis Towers Watson’s distinct, connected perspective across talent, assets and ideas reveals hidden value within the critical intersections of our clients’ organizations. Captive solutions can enhance the financial and operational performance of your organization, allowing you to look at risk as a path for growth.

For us there is no such thing as a standard captive, a routine client or a generic solution. We provide risk retention advice through client focused strategic consultancy, analytics, and insurance facility management. Bringing together our risk expertise and data-driven insights, we provide a clear view of the long-term opportunity to enable more forward thinking decisions around your risk retention strategy.

Insurance Facility Management
Willis Towers Watson is one of the world’s largest captive managers. We aim to deliver the highest levels of quality, security and efficiency to meet our clients’ demands.
Our ‘one team—many locations’ approach, supported by our tried and tested global delivery platform, brings the experience of our extensive worldwide captive team to each and every client, ensuring a consistent and exceptional standard of service.
We are more than captive managers. Working closely with our consultants and industry specialists we are constantly developing new and proactive innovations to find new ways of enhancing captive value and utilization.
We provide a wide range of core and ancillary services to help you drive best practices and added value. These services include:

  • Formation and licensing of captives
  • Company secretarial and corporate governance
  • Accounting
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Data management and management information reporting
  • Underwriting
  • Insurance administration and claims handling
  • Additional line of business review

Captive Consulting
Our consulting capabilities cover the life cycle of a captive, from initial feasibility to strategic enhancement of mature captives and appropriate exit planning when the captive is no longer required.
We help our clients understand the potential benefits and implications of a captive retention strategy and enable them to make fully informed decisions that add measurable value. By using our extensive industry knowledge our advice is based on a clear appreciation of the key issues that are influencing your business, helping you develop specific strategies to provide enhanced protection, improved financial efficiency and competitive advantage.
Our consultants will guide you through the decision-making process to help identify key considerations including the best design and location of your captive program, optimization of capital, and key regulatory and compliance considerations. In addition, we offer a range of services including:

  • Ongoing captive strategic counsel
  • New product development
  • Revenue enhancement
  • Uninsured risk review and additional line of business analysis
  • Captive exit strategies
  • Effective fronting programs
  • Industry benchmarking

In addition, our state-of-the art actuarial modelling services will assist you in making informed decisions to drive optimal value from your captive strategy, enhancing its benefits and growing your business. Our services are customized for you and include:

  • Strategic risk financing
  • Loss forecasting and risk retention analysis
  • Statutory capital calculations
  • Transfer pricing
  • Premium allocation
  • Reserving analysis
  • Natural catastrophe modelling

Areas of specialisation​:​

  • Formation and licensing of captives
  • Company secretarial and corporate governance
  • Accounting and Underwriting
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Data management and management information reporting
  • Insurance administration and claims handling
  • Ongoing captive strategic counsel
  • Captive exit strategies
  • Effective fronting programs

Jurisdictions:

Willis Towers Watson’s Global Captive Practice manages insurance vehicles within 35 jurisdictions in:

  • America
  • Europe
  • Asia
  • Australasia


Paul Owens
CEO – Global Captive Practice
Phone: +44 (0) 20 3124 6556
Email: Paul.Owens@willistowerswatson.com

Sumit Mehra
COO – Global Captive Practice
Phone: +44 (0) 20 3124 6252
Email: Sumit.Mehra@willistowerswatson.com

Nigel Goodlad
Regional Managing Director – Europe, Global Captive Practice
Phone: +356 (0) 2248 2700
Email: Nigel.Goodlad@willistowerswatson.com