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International
 | Marc Bajer
Senior Managing Director
+44 (0) 20 7562 1928
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| Nick Proud
Managing Director
+44 (0) 20 7562 1910
Email | | Shrootin Shah
Director
+44 (0) 20 7562 1921
Email | | Thomas Gormley
Vice President
+44 (0) 20 7562 1913
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| Dean Archer
Director
+44 (0) 20 7562 1914
Email | | Flavio Simonutti
Vice President
+44 (0) 20 7562 1916
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| Craig Lee
Managing Director
+44 (0) 20 7562 1903
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| Michael Walker
Director
212-261-5575
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Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd., a London-based subsidiary of Assured Guaranty Corp. is a monoline bond insurer in the United Kingdom and European markets. Assured Guaranty focuses on providing financial guaranty insurance for private finance initiative (PFI) and other project and infrastructure finance transactions as well as for structured finance, including asset-backed securities, commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd. is authorized by the Financial Services Authority to transact financial guaranty business in the United Kingdom and is able to write insurance in the 27 countries in the European Economic Area. Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd. has insurer financial strength ratings of AAA from Standard & Poor's, Aaa from Moody's Investors Service and AAA from Fitch Ratings.
Assured Guaranty Finance Overseas Ltd. (AGFOL) is authorized by the FSA to arrange and source derivative transactions in the United Kingdom and 13 other countries in the European Economic Area. AGFOL markets derivatives issued by AG Financial Products Inc. AGFOL does not take risk on transactions it arranges and may not hold funds on behalf of customers.
Assured Guaranty can provide credit enhancement solutions for issuers across all sectors of the PFI market, thereby reducing the cost of funds for the project and providing access to the capital markets. Assured Guaranty can provide credit enhancement solutions at various stages in a project's life, both at the project’s commencement and any stage post-commencement of construction.
Assured Guaranty's underwriting focus in these markets include the following sectors:
- Defense
- Emergency services (fire, police, ambulance, etc.)
- Government accommodation
- Hospitals and other healthcare
- Housing
- Schools
- Social services
- Transportation
- Waste
Assured Guaranty is able to provide credit enhancement for issues across a wide range of infrastructure sectors including:
- Transportation: Roads, bridges, tunnels, rail, airports and ports
- Utilities including:
- Water (treatment, distribution and supply)
- Electricity (generation, distribution and supply)
- Gas (distribution and supply)
- Whole business securitizations of the above
- Waste (collection, treatment or overall "management")
- Student and keyworker accommodation
- Other regulated essential infrastructure
Assured Guaranty provides credit enhancement that helps issuers, brokers/dealers and investors create and execute more efficient, cost-effective transactions for even the most complex structured financings. In conjunction with our New York-based underwriting team, Assured Guaranty (UK) Ltd.’s team has underwriting experience and experience in a broad array of asset-backed and structured finance securities, including:
- Commercial and consumer asset-backed securities
- CDOs and collateralized loan obligations
- Residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities (conforming and non-conforming)
- Mortgage insurance
- Future flow transactions
- Structured insurance
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