Petitions to Transfer Business

City and County of the City of LondonEC3M 4BS51.512507-0.078734EC4A 1NL51.515771-0.110291EC4R 0BR51.510391-0.08904FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS ACT 2000Financial Services and Markets Act 20001935-01-012001-02-202021-07-232021-09-172021-11-242021-12-01TSO (The Stationery Office), customer.services@thegazette.co.uk388656963475

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE

BUSINESS AND PROPERTY COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES

COMPANIES COURT (ChD)

CR-2021-001163

IN THE MATTER OF

THE UNITED KINGDOM MUTUAL STEAM SHIP ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION LIMITED

-and-

IN THE MATTER OF

R&Q GAMMA COMPANY LIMITED

-and-

IN THE MATTER OF

PART VII OF THE FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS ACT 2000

TRANSFER OF INSURANCE BUSINESS UNDERWRITTEN BY THE UNITED KINGDOM MUTUAL STEAM SHIP ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION LIMITED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, by application dated 23rd July 2021, The United Kingdom Mutual Steam Ship Assurance Association Limited (the Transferor) and R&Q Gamma Company Limited (the Transferee) (together the Applicants), applied to the High Court of Justice of England and Wales for, amongst other things, an order under Section 111(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (the Act) sanctioning an insurance business transfer scheme (the Scheme) providing for the transfer of insurance business by the Transferor to the Transferee and for an order making provision under Section 112 of the Act.

The business included in the proposed transfer comprises rights and liabilities of the Transferor under or by virtue of insurance of non-EEA risks underwritten by the Transferor, or by another party and subsequently transferred to the Transferor, between 1 January 1935 and 20 February 2001 insofar as such risks relate to claims relating to liabilities to seamen and any other persons for death, disease or personal injury (including mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung and other cancers and hearing loss) arising as a result of exposures to hazardous material, conditions or other risk factors during the period prior to 20 February 2001.

Copies of a report on the terms of the Scheme prepared by an independent expert in accordance with section 109 of the Act (the Scheme Report) and copies of a statement setting out the terms of the Scheme and containing a summary of the Scheme Report may be obtained, free of charge, by contacting:

Randall & Quilter Investment Holdings Ltd.

71 Fenchurch Street

London EC3M 4BS

Ref: Jacqui Rayner

email: jacqui.rayner@rqih.com

telephone: + 44 (0)20 7977 4835.

or may be downloaded from the website http://www.rqih.com/news/the-united-kingdom-mutual-steam-ship-assurance-association-limited-part-vii-transfer/.

Anyone who has any concerns or objections regarding the proposed transfer or who requires any further information regarding the transfer should also contact the above address and reference or appear in Court or both.

The application will be heard on Wednesday 1st December 2021 before a Judge of the High Court - Business and Property Courts of England and Wales at The Rolls Building, 7 Rolls Buildings, Fetter Lane, London, EC4A 1NL, United Kingdom. The Act provides that any person (including an employee of the Transferor or the Transferee) who alleges that he or she may be adversely affected by the carrying out of the Scheme is entitled to:

1. make representations in writing;

2. appear at the hearing and make representations in person; or

3. instruct a barrister or solicitor advocate to appear at the hearing and make representations on his/her behalf.

If you intend to appear at the hearing in person, or to instruct someone to appear on your behalf, you are requested (though not required) to give notice of your intention to do so in writing, setting out the reasons why you believe you may be adversely affected.

You are requested to send such notice, or if you are not intending to appear in person or by your legal representative, any written representations that you may have, to:

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

Governor’s House

5 Laurence Pountney Hill

London, EC4R 0BR

(ref: LJAC/GQUI/2039998.000003).

Please provide such notice or such written representations by close of business on Wednesday 24th November 2021. If you do not give the requested notice you will still be entitled to attend and make representations at the hearing or to instruct someone to appear and make representations on your behalf.

Due to the COVID 19 pandemic it is possible that the hearing may be virtual and no one will be attending in person. The position will be confirmed on the website http://www.rqih.com/news/the-united-kingdom-mutual-steam-ship-assurance-association-limited-part-vii-transfer/ prior to the hearing.

If the Scheme is sanctioned by the Court, it will result in the transfer of all the contracts, property, assets and liabilities of the Transferor within the scope of the Scheme to the Transferee, notwithstanding that a person would otherwise be entitled to:

1. terminate, modify, acquire or claim an interest or right; or

2. treat an interest or right as terminated or modified,

as a result of the transfer of business effected by the Scheme. Any such entitlement will only be enforceable to the extent the order of the Court makes provision to that effect.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, Governor’s House, 5 Laurence Pountney Hill, London, EC4R 0BR

Ref: LJAC/GQUI/2039998.000003

Solicitors to the Applicants