Paul Knowles
Global Head of Private Equity and M&A
Paul is Global Head of Marsh Specialty’s PEMA practice and a member of the Global Specialty Executive Committee; he is also a member of the Marsh McLennan Private Equity and M&A leadership team.
The PEMA team is represented across the Marsh global office network providing comprehensive services to both corporate and private capital clients involved in M&A activity, as well as full client management services to private equity, infrastructure and real estate clients at a fund and portfolio company level.
Paul has spent the majority of his 33-year insurance broking career focused on global infrastructure, construction and real estate sectors located in the London market but has worked in Hungary and Russia in the early part of his career. Throughout his career, he has helped structure and manage risk and insurance programmes for global contractors and real estate clients, as well as managing major one-off construction projects around the world in the power and energy as well as civil engineering sectors. Since the start of 2023 he became Global Head of PEMA and relocated to New York, USA