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What makes McGill and Partners truly different is our Contract of Trust – a two way commitment between the firm and our colleagues. We trust our colleague to take ownership, perform at a high level and contribute to our success. In return, we offer an environment that champions collaboration, flexibility and professional growth. Our apprentices are no exception – you’ll be empowered to learn, develop and take on challenges that will share your future.
Our Contract of Trust, offers:
Competitive salary & bonus eligibility
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Market leading core benefits, plus our enhanced benefits which include unlimited annual leave and many more.
Whether you’re a school leaver or graduate, this is you chance to be part of an exciting, growing firm that’s redefining the insurance industry.
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This report sets out our 2025 gender pay gap reporting information for McGill and Partners UK.
Our strategic priority remains to increase the representation of women in senior roles and the upper pay quartiles. We are confident that by continuing to focus on hiring, developing, and promoting our talented female colleagues, we will achieve sustainable and meaningful change.
McGill and Partners and American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) today announced a significant strategic collaboration for the subscription market that will provide clients with seamless access to exceptional insurance solutions, backed by long-term, high-quality insurance capacity and capital. As part of the initiative, AIG and McGill and Partners will leverage agentic AI capabilities to manage the deployment of capacity to clients.
Through the collaboration, AIG performed a detailed analysis of McGill and Partners’ specialty portfolio, validating its strength and quality. Based on this analysis, the company created underwriting criteria to enable real-time underwriting through McGill and Partners’ digital broking platform. As a result of this approach, AIG expects to deploy meaningful capacity of 25% across up to $1.6 billion of McGill and Partners Gross Premiums Written specialty portfolio.
The analysis of McGill and Partners’ portfolio by AIG was made possible by the digital-first approach the broker has adopted since their launch in 2019. Utilising its tech-enabled platform, McGill and Partners provided access to high-quality data and insights to enable AIG to underwrite the portfolio and to use an agentic AI approach to manage its performance in the future.
AIG collaborated with Palantir to build an ontology of McGill and Partner extensive portfolio. By leveraging McGill and Partners’ digital broking platform in addition to Palantir’s Foundry platform, AIG will develop comprehensive insights on business underwritten, including near real-time exposure, limit deployment, modelled risk outputs and loss information. This access to near real-time data analysis will allow AIG to manage the performance and deployment of AIG’s capacity to McGill and Partners’ clients on an ongoing basis.
This strategic collaboration sets a new industry benchmark and significantly evolves the model for pre-secured capacity across a diverse specialty portfolio of risk. With industry leading capabilities from AIG, McGill and Partners’ brokers can focus on working with leading underwriters to develop the best possible solutions for clients. McGill and Partners’ clients will gain access to valuable long-term capacity from AIG and stability and security in an increasingly volatile risk landscape.
Steve McGill, CEO, McGill and Partners, said: “This collaboration has the potential to disrupt the dynamics of the subscription market. It strengthens the value proposition of leading underwriters in the market and redefines the way capacity is positioned in the best interests of our clients. This moves beyond incremental change and repositions the way the market operates in the future.”
Peter Zaffino, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, AIG, said: “The rapid evolution of AI and large language models is reshaping risk analytics, giving us the ability to continuously learn from McGill and Partners’ portfolio and deploy capacity with greater insight, discipline and speed. By using McGill and Partners’ robust data ingestion capabilities along with Palantir’s Foundry platform, we are able to evaluate their portfolio to align with our risk appetite, and over time, we see significant opportunity to deliver greater efficiency to the subscription market while giving clients easier access to high-quality insurance solutions.”
We are pleased to share we have renewed our Ukraine War Risks Reinsurance Facility for another year, with the maximum line per risk increasing from $50m to $100m.
More than $100m of cover has already been placed for the benefit of businesses operating in Ukraine, allowing vital industries such as energy production, manufacturing, warehousing, food and battery energy storage, to access the cover they need.
The facility is designed to support local Ukrainian cedants, including ARX, the insurer we first collaborated with, by providing the reinsurance capacity needed to protect commercial property in the region against war related risks faced by their clients.
The increase in capacity reflects a marked expansion in carrier participation, which has more than doubled and now stands at 14 insurers, including Aegis London, Atrium, AXIS, Liberty Specialty Markets, The Fidelis Partnership, and Westfield Specialty International.
Participating carriers have committed $250m in the aggregate for the next 12 months, reflecting the significant expansion in per risk and aggregate capacity available for Ukrainian clients.
The facility supports Ukrainian businesses during the current conflict and aids the economic recovery afterwards. The renewal of the facility has been designed to accommodate future investments, which may require larger limits, that are anticipated during Ukraine’s reconstruction.
Chris Stevenson, Head of Property, Casualty, and Construction at McGill and Partners said: “This is the only facility in the market that offers these kinds of limits at this scale, and we’re committed to ensuring it continues to provide meaningful support to businesses operating in such difficult circumstances. We’re pleased to be able to increase the limits and provide access to critical cover to support Ukrainian businesses as they navigate the devastating effects of war and look to rebuild in the future.”
In an interview with Artificial, our Group COO, Nick Williams-Walker, explains why embracing digital capabilities is no longer an option but an imperative for brokers. He details our strategy of embedding AI along with smart placement and contract building into our workflows to become faster, more responsive, and to empower our colleagues to solve our clients’ most complex risk challenges:
For brokers at the beginning of their digitalisation journey, or early into it, what factors do they need to consider around their data capabilities?
If you look back to two years ago, you would probably say you needed to have your data in an incredibly structured format, and that you would need to spend 18 months in a dark room on data models before you could apply it to any tech.
That’s all changed now, and this is why I encourage people just to start; otherwise you could end up in the preparation phase forever. With our partnership with Google, we can now take unstructured data and get it into a usable state very quickly, but it’s still true that to make advances, brokers will have to get away from using just the Microsoft Office tool set.
A digital contract builder is the minimum a broker will need in the near future. There are many tools out there to digitise PDFs and documents, but that of itself won’t be enough to match appetite and trade quickly with carriers as they trade more algorithmically. Digitisation after the event isn’t sustainable.
In the London wholesale broking market in the near future, what capabilities around systems will become ‘table stakes’ to be competitive?
This isn’t groundbreaking, but in addition to a contract builder tool, it’s the ability to connect platforms together through APIs now, and probably agents in the future. That should be absolute table stakes today, but it’s amazing how much legacy technology in the London market still isn’t API-enabled. And then there’s different areas of the value chain.
The ability to trade and communicate with data, to receive and distribute data to clients and carriers – that should become table stakes very soon – but that’s just the front end of the business. There are other aspects just to maintain margin, and that means the transaction has got to be digitised.
To what extent can tech partners undertake a lot of the heavy lifting for brokers daunted by what transformation means for legacy systems, connectivity and data flows?
In previous years, everyone wanted the silver bullet of an amazing end-to-end policy admin system, but it never materialised. Hundreds of millions were spent trying to do it but in reality, it became back-office systems. Now firms like Artificial, are putting tools into the hands of brokers that support their activities in delivering great outcomes for clients, and interacting with markets.
The strategy at McGill and Partners is that we do not see any future with a single end-to-end policy admin system. We have strong partners like Artificial, who are providing everything around smart placement and contract building.
We also use Salesforce, for example, for everything related to clients, contracts and our sales pipeline, and then Google Cloud operates everything around our data. Because those platforms now have such great connectivity, you can easily plug in things like KYC and other elements to improve the client experience but also ensure operational efficiency savings. Brokers can now knit these things together in a fairly seamless way using tools like Mulesoft.
With just a few London brokers at the forefront of digitalisation, do you think these leaders will create a competitive dynamic that accelerates change?
There are economics in play, of winning more clients and operating more efficiently, and creating digitalised facilities, so there’s a revenue imperative which means that digitalisation will naturally become a competitive landscape.
It’s also about an employee proposition. People want to work in a place that’s moving forward, where they’re not going to be spending 80% of their time on the transaction. They want to solve difficult problems or claims for clients. Critically, that’s going to exert pressure on firms, in that talent is going to gravitate towards companies making the biggest strides in digital. We certainly see that happening already.
How will digital facilities like McGill and Partners’ Auton, shape the future client/broker/carrier dynamic?
Ultimately, it’s about matching risk to appetite in a much more algorithmic way. For our clients, it’s two things. One, it enables our brokers to spend more time with them, trying to solve the most complex problems, and then spend more time with the lead to craft solutions. We also see an increasing amount of pure follow being placed algorithmically, so we spend most of our time on lead line broking, and increasingly really complex risk.
The second point for clients, is that we can deliver great rated capacity for them much faster. It’s speed of placement, plus certainty of pricing and coverage for the client.
What are the different methods of measuring the impact that digitalisation delivers?
For us, there is a core measurement around capacity creation. It’s enabling us to grow our revenue and not have to grow our headcount at the same rate as we were at the beginning.
We’re also calculating how people spend that time that is freed up. We are already seeing that they’re spending far more time on the client solution piece. Through our partnership with Google Cloud, we use Agentspace which includes Notebook LM, Deep Research, our own form of ChatGPT, and the ability to create Agents. We’ve got an innovation studio and more than 20 AI-related programmes covering client solutions and operational efficiency.
The challenge for everyone is that, while capacity creation is great, what do people do with the additional time they now have available? You have to make sure that people are focusing on things that add value to clients, and to the firm.
These insights are part of a white paper, developed in collaboration with Artificial, on the future of our industry. To view the full whitepaper, please click here.
In partnership with AEGIS London, a top-quartile Lloyd’s syndicate, we’re pleased to announce a new strategic initiative to transform the way risk is placed, harnessing a digital-first approach. This innovative collaboration will align AEGIS London’s risk appetite across multiple business lines with McGill and Partners’ client portfolio. Using new technology, the platform will algorithmically identify eligible risks, provide quotes and bind cover following a lead’s terms, which will significantly streamline the placement process for clients.
Underwriters will have increased transparency through a bespoke dashboard, which will provide data on risk selection and exposure management to help them manage the portfolio. This ensures underwriting standards are maintained, while making a historically complex process simpler. Automating and combining the quote-and-bind workflow with AEGIS London’s pre-determined underwriting criteria will accelerate placements and improve overall efficiency.
Clients will benefit by receiving faster access to high-quality follow capacity, delivered in line with the lead underwriter’s terms, conditions and pricing. Overall, this provides clients with greater certainty and confidence in the fulfilment of their placement needs.
The initiative is powered by our proprietary Underscore broking platform, and has the potential to scale across additional partners, setting a new standard for digital transformation in the industry.
Steve McGill, CEO at McGill and Partners, said: “We’re excited to launch this digital partnership with AEGIS London. It is built on our shared ambition to deliver smarter, digitally-enabled solutions for the benefit of our clients and drive real change in our industry. At its core, it will deliver what our clients value the most: speed, certainty, and high-quality capacity. By streamlining the placement process, we unlock our brokers’ ability to leverage the wider market more effectively, which will result in a superior client experience.”
Alex Powell, Chief Executive Officer, AEGIS London, said: “This represents a transformative approach in how we use dedicated data analysis to inform and enhance underwriting decisions. By combining advanced analytics with innovative digital trading capabilities, we’re creating a platform that not only simplifies access but deepens collaboration with brokers for the benefit of our clients.
“Underwriting excellence remains at the heart of AEGIS London, and this initiative builds on that through data-driven risk selection. The ability to automatically identify eligible risks and deliver quote-and-bind functionality based on predefined underwriting criteria demonstrates a significant step forward in delivering a truly digital and dynamic trading capability to the market.”
We’re pleased to announce a capacity expansion for Auton, our award-winning, fully digital cross-class auto-follow facility. As it enters its second year, its maximum capacity will increase from 20% to 25%, which will be available for all eligible lines of business, further enhancing its proposition for clients.
The facility continues to be backed by a panel of Lloyd’s insurers, benefiting from Lloyd’s strong financial market ratings and is led by Beazley’s Smart Tracker Syndicate. Auton’s unique design allows underwriters to dynamically flex line sizes, enabling them to tailor their participation to their own underwriting appetite.
This flexibility, combined with access to a broad and diverse portfolio of business spanning multiple classes and geographies, has positioned Auton as a leading facility in the Lloyd’s market. Additionally, with an average indexation rate above 75%, the facility has out-performed industry expectations.
Its digital capabilities and best-in-class dashboards also set it apart. In recent research conducted with its underwriting panel, Auton’s reporting and live dashboards were ranked among the best in the market. The dashboards include comprehensive live data on index performance, premium, claims, aggregate accumulations, and modelled losses, giving underwriters valuable insights to manage and monitor their portfolios.
The capacity increase, which will soon come into force, builds on a successful first year which also saw the launch of Auton Green, which provides up to 40% capacity for onshore renewable energy risks. As Auton enters its second year, the increased capacity will serve to optimise placement for clients and continue the firm’s focus on delivering efficient placement solutions across all client segments.
Mark Gregson, Head of Digital Solutions, McGill and Partners said, “The success of Auton in its first year is a testament to our digital innovation and the strong collaborative partnerships we have with our carriers, which have been key to the facility’s ongoing improvement. The increase in capacity, is a direct response to the appetite of our carriers and clients who are looking for a more efficient, effective and streamlined placement process.”
We’re pleased to announce a new collaboration with Artificial Labs (Artificial), where we will work together to create a single integrated digital platform – so brokers can manage the full placement lifecycle from submission to bind and streamline downstream processing.
By digitising our broking workflow and leveraging key strategic partnerships with Salesforce and Google, this initiative will deliver a fully integrated, end-to-end solution. This will provide our brokers with the digital tools they need, to maximise their focus on client relationships and market engagement and reduce the time spent on administration.
We are the first broker to adopt Artificial’s Smart Placement platform end-to-end. This digital platform ensures that key data, marketing activity, and contract documents are managed in one secure environment, providing valuable client and broking insights, and also supports the next phase of our AI initiatives.
The solution will be fully integrated into our digital ecosystem and will be rolled out globally in a phased approach starting with all UK and Europe specialty areas through the rest of 2025 and into 2026.
Nick Williams-Walker, Chief Operating Officer of McGill and Partners, said: “This is a critical part of our ‘digital-first’ strategy and reinforces our commitment to building market-leading tools. We are creating a best-in-class digital broking environment that empowers our colleagues to focus on what they do best – delivering great outcomes for our clients.”
“Artificial works in tandem with the strategic partnerships we already have with Google and Salesforce to create a fully integrated end-to-end solution that is transforming the way speciality insurance is transacted.”
David King, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Artificial Labs, said: “We are proud to collaborate with a forward-thinking firm like McGill and Partners. Our solution will deliver a fully configurable, broker-first platform that removes operational friction and unlocks the full potential of digital placement. Smart Placement is the only tool of its kind in the market – purpose-built to meet the evolving needs of specialty brokers and designed to integrate seamlessly across the placement lifecycle.”
“By combining advanced technology with deep market understanding, we’re helping McGill and Partners scale their strategy, streamline execution, and deliver exceptional outcomes for their clients. Together, we are creating a more efficient and connected ecosystem.”
Welcome to The Edge – a new content series that celebrates the achievements of Great Britain’s trailblazing snow sports athletes and explores what businesses can learn from their growing success. As proud partners of GB Snowsport, we’ll be following the team closely throughout this pivotal season.
Once thought of as an underdog, GB Snowsport has recruited and nurtured first-class talent and is now successfully taking on the best in the world — mirroring our own story at McGill and Partners. With the bold ambition of becoming a top five snow sports nation by 2030, they’re setting a new standard for performance and progress.
The Edge series dives into five themes that are crucial to both snow sports and business: Risk, Resilience, Innovation, Teamwork, and Leadership. Through the lens of elite athletes and business leaders, we examine how these qualities drive success – on the slopes and in the boardroom.
In this series, you’ll hear from alpine skier Billy Major on managing the risks of high-speed competition, and from snowboarding star Charlotte Bankes as she battles back to peak fitness after injury. Our team of experts weigh in on how risk management in sport parallels corporate strategy – from data-driven preparation to the need for fast, confident decision-making.
Later this season, we’ll introduce you to Para snowboarder Ollie Hill, whose resilience is propelling him to the top of his sport, and visually impaired skier Menna Fitzpatrick, whose extraordinary teamwork with her guide has made her Britain’s most decorated Winter Paralympian. We’ll also hear from the coaches and leaders behind GB Snowsport – the people driving new ideas, strong leadership, and helping the team reach its goal.
We are thrilled to be supporting GB Snowsport on this adventure.
We are delighted to announce our partnership with GB Snowsport, the national governing body for elite British snowsports, as the team prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan Cortina in February and March 2026.
The announcement comes as GB Snowsport celebrates its most successful World Cup season to date, with record results across multiple disciplines. As the new competition season begins, we will support Britain’s top Snowsport athletes towards the Olympic and Paralympic stages.
The partnership brings together two organisations that have been built on bold performance and see disruption as a force for progress. Our firm was founded on the principles of being different by design and has always celebrated a high-performance mindset. So, along with GB Snowsport, we are aligned in our belief that by championing difference and bringing together top talent as one team with a shared purpose, success will follow.
As a specialist insurance and reinsurance broker, we are used to dealing with complexity and finding innovative solutions for clients’ most challenging and complex needs. We have always been highly focused – in the clients we serve, the partners we work with and the talent we hire to drive our business forward. The partnership with GB Snowsport is no different and reflects the same commitment.
GB Snowsport manages and develops the programmes of world class British skiers and snowboarders across the 12 Olympic and Paralympic disciplines. The organisation selects, manages and leads the British teams to international events, promotes participation in the International Ski and Snowboard Federation (FIS) and World Para Snowsport disciplines, and provides opportunities for athletes to achieve their full potential as individuals and as a team. It also develops up-and-coming talent and nurtures those athletes who are already showing themselves to be able to perform on the world stage, a critical role in the ongoing success of British snowsports.
The collaboration will be brought to life through a series of activations including The Edge Series, a new content platform exploring the parallels between sport and business such as risk, resilience, innovation and talent.
Steve McGill CBE, Co-founder and CEO of McGill and Partners, said: “This partnership reflects everything we stand for. Bold thinking, exceptional performance and the courage to lead in complex environments. GB Snowsport is a natural fit for our brand and culture, and together we look forward to making a real impact in both sport and business.”
“Whether it’s navigating complex risk or supporting elite and emerging athletes, the shared vision is to support resilience, foster innovation, and champion those who pursue excellence.”
Vicky Gosling, CEO at GB Snowsport said: “We’re extremely excited to be going into the new season in partnership with McGill and Partners and really look forward to working with them over the coming year.”
“This is a partnership where the shared values between our two organisations are really clear, and what we’re looking to achieve on the snow in the next twelve months fits brilliantly with the ethos and culture that McGill and Partners demonstrate in their business. At GB Snowsport, we believe firmly that we are stronger as one team, and we’re delighted that we get to welcome McGill and Partners into that team ahead of a year that has the potential to be one of the most exciting in British snowsport history.”
We’re setting the stage for the next phase of our growth – with strong financial results for the six months ending 30 June 2025 and securing new credit facilities of $300m from lenders Morgan Stanley, Permira and Bridgepoint. This refinancing marks another significant milestone in our ongoing evolution, providing long-term lender support at conservative levels of leverage and enabling meaningful returns to eligible shareholders through a dividend recapitalisation.
The new credit facility, secured with sophisticated participants from the private credit markets, provides a long-term, more flexible financing structure that reflects our maturity and strategically positions our firm for the future. The new arrangement comprises a senior facility, an acquisition facility to support further investment in talent and technology (including AI), and a revolving credit facility. In combination with the existing funding capacity from Warburg Pincus, the new facility underscores our continued growth and supports our long-term financial objectives.
The strategic refinancing follows the announcement, at the end of last year, that our firm was one of the companies selected by Warburg Pincus for inclusion in its first ever multi-asset continuation fund. The fund is composed of a diversified portfolio of companies, all of which have demonstrated significant success and high growth potential.
This growth potential is demonstrated by the most recent half year results. We were delighted to report organic revenue growth of more than 20% in the first half of 2025 and a significant increase of 79% in adjusted EBITDA, against H1 of the prior year. These record results, taken alongside today’s announcement, demonstrate our firm is strategically positioned for future expansion, building on our strong organic performance to date.
Steve McGill, Chief Executive Officer, commented: “I am immensely proud of what we have achieved in just six years. The business continues to deliver significant growth and we have reached a level of maturity that means we have more flexible and attractive financing options available to us to support our future ambitions.”
“We stand apart from others in the sector as a global specialty firm built organically, with a client-centric, single P&L, a unique culture, a state-of-the-art and fully integrated platform, and market-leading revenue growth. It is these differentiators, coupled with the new financing arrangement, that will deliver exceptional client value and allow all our colleagues to reap the benefits of our collective endeavours as the business continues to thrive and deliver on its growth potential.”
James O’Gara, Managing Director at Warburg Pincus, commented: “Over the past six years, McGill and Partners has evolved from a start-up challenger to an established player, winning share by delivering for its global clients and talent base. Notably, Steve and the wider team have done it the hard way – purpose-building the business from scratch. The reward is a truly differentiated firm, with a singular culture, unique technology-led approach and an integrated platform poised to continue its impressive organic growth track record.”
“This refinancing is another positive milestone in that journey; both reflecting the great progress to date, as well as giving the business renewed firepower, in conjunction with our support, to pursue its unique talent acquisition strategy. We are tremendously proud of what the team has accomplished, and enthusiastic about their continued potential from here.”
