Insurance Brokers Launch Lockton Global Partnership

Lockton today announced the formation of the Lockton GlobalSM partnership. Lockton Global provides multinational companies risk management, insurance, and employee benefit solutions for more than 1,000 global clients. It formalizes longstanding client service relationships among Lockton and its insurance broker partners.

Published on April 2, 2012

Lockton Global LLP, a Delaware partnership of 30 of the world's leading privately held insurance brokers and risk advisors, delivers flexible, expert global risk management services, generating increased efficiency for multinational companies. Partners are committed to providing exceptional service and innovative solutions. A full list of founding partners is on the Lockton Global web site at www.locktonglobal.com.

Lockton Global Chairman John Lumelleau comments:

"Lockton Global is an evolutionary step, strengthening existing partnerships that serve the global insurance, risk management, and employee benefits needs of our mutual clients. Lockton leads this group and supports our Lockton Global partner clients. At a time when clients clearly want more global service tied to local expertise that helps improve their businesses, Lockton Global offers flexible, effective, innovative risk management solutions."

Lockton Global partner Mark Leysen in Belgium calls the partnership a valuable asset for his firms clients and his business. "By acting in partnership, we deal with each other because we want to, not because we have to. We have mutually committed to treat every client as our own."

Lockton Global serves multinational companies like Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. and ACI Worldwide, a financial services software firm.
Stanley Black & Decker Senior Risk Manager, Diane Bascom values the expertise that Lockton Global brings to its rapidly growing business globally. "It speaks to the integrity of the broker, their resourcefulness in coming up with creative cost-beneficial solutions, their communication capabilities in terms of spreading the words to our local entities, and the timeliness with which they deliver the results we require."

Paul Van Dyne is Director of Compensation and Benefits for ACI Worldwide, who said, "Lockton Global is a critical partner in helping us fulfill our human resources strategy in that they bring a knowledge of the market to us, they bring brokerage skills in working with both their own offices and with partners for our benefit programs in 35 countries, and then they help us sell our programs to employees."