McGill and Partners and AEGIS London announce new digital partnership

McGill and Partners, the independent global specialty insurance and reinsurance broker, and AEGIS London, a Lloyd’s syndicate, have formed a strategic partnership to deliver smarter, digitally-enabled solutions for clients.

The partnership aligns AEGIS London’s risk appetite across multiple business lines with McGill and Partners’ client portfolio. Using advanced technology, the platform will algorithmically identify eligible risks, provide quotes, and bind cover in line with a lead’s terms, significantly streamlining the placement process.

Underwriters will benefit from increased transparency through a bespoke dashboard that provides data on risk selection and exposure management to help them manage the portfolio. This supports strong underwriting standards while simplifying a historically complex process. Automating and combining the quote-and-bind workflow with AEGIS London’s predefined underwriting criteria will accelerate placements and improve overall efficiency.

Clients will receive faster access to high-quality follow capacity, delivered in accordance with the lead underwriter’s terms, conditions, and pricing. This gives clients greater certainty and confidence in the fulfilment of their placement needs.

The initiative is powered by McGill and Partners’ proprietary Underscore broking platform and has the potential to scale across additional partners.

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, added, “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.”