Elizabeth Blackwell

Director at Aon

Speaker

Elizabeth is a director in Aon’s professional adviser coverage team, facilitating strategic engagement with investment banks, law firms and other advisers to help deliver the breadth of Aon’s capabilities for financial investor and corporate clients on deal, portfolio and other event-driven opportunities. Elizabeth co-leads the development of secondary activities in the UK for Aon’s Risk Capital business, helping to bridge Aon’s specialist brokers and its investment advisory teams who act for limited partners, trustees and other investors in private equity. Aon’s secondary practice includes the placement of W&I, R&W, tax and contingent risk insurance policies to facilitate secondary transactions, primarily in the buy-out market and continuation vehicles, in particular. Aon helps clients realise investment liquidity by structuring risk transfer solutions at all stages of the fund lifecycle, for both GP-led and LP-led transactions.

Elizabeth joined Aon in 2022 having previously worked as an M&A lawyer at Eversheds Sutherland for nearly 10 years. Elizabeth holds a BA(Hons) in Finance from the University of Nottingham as well as the Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course from Nottingham Law School.