COOPER GAY FRANCE ACQUIRES TOKIO MARINE KILN EUROPE

Cooper Gay France, the French managing general agent (MGA) owned by Ed Broking, is to acquire a Belgium-headquartered service company from Tokio Marine Kiln. Tokio Marine Kiln Europe will be combined with Cooper Gay France to create a single business, to be named Cooper Gay. Cooper Gay France specialises in property and catastrophe, reinsurance, sports and marine lines. The addition of the Tokio Marine Kiln Europe will bring geographical and product diversity, adding credit and surety, cyber, space and accident and health lines. The combined Cooper Gay business will have 55 staff operating across Belgium, France, Germany, Martinique and the UK. It will be led by Frédéric Chappaz, chief executive of Cooper Gay France at present.