Allied World Assurance

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Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, GmbH

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legal form GmbH
founding 2001
Seat Zug , Switzerland
management Ronald Schokking
(Chairman of the Management Board)
Number of employees 1,040 (December 31, 2014)
sales 2,450,000,000 US dollars (2014)
Branch Insurance
Website www.awac.com

Allied World Assurance is a Swiss insurance broker based in the Park Tower in Zug . The company operates in both the direct and reinsurance industries.

history

The company was founded in November 2001 with four employees by a consortium of several investors, including the American International Group , Chubb Corporation , Goldman Sachs and Swiss Re , and today employs over 1,000 people. In October 2002, the European branch was founded in Ireland. A branch in London followed in May 2003 and in Zug in October 2008. The company also has ten offices in the United States , Bermuda , Hong Kong and Singapore .

On November 30, 2010, the group moved its headquarters from the Bermuda Islands to Zug in Switzerland . Linked to this was the transformation of the group into a stock corporation under Swiss law .

In July 2017, Allied World Assurance was acquired by Canadian competitor Fairfax Financial for $ 4.9 billion and converted into a GmbH .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Entry of Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG in the commercial register of the canton of Zug  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / search.powernet.ch  
  2. a b http://www.snl.com/Cache/1001195784.PDF?Y=&O=PDF&D=&fid=1001195784&T=&iid=4078260
  3. http://thomson.mobular.net/thomson/7/3051/4150/document_0/AWH_AR09.pdf
  4. http://216.139.227.101/interactive/awh2010/template/download.php?fn=awh2010ar.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / 216.139.227.101  
  5. http://www.fairfax.ca/news/press-releases/press-release-details/2017/Fairfax-Financial-Successfully-Completes-Acquisition-of-Allied-World-and-Closes-Exchange-Offer/default .aspx