Assured Guaranty Ltd. announced that Mark C. Batten has been appointed as a non-executive director to Assured Guaranty?s Board of Directors (Board). Mr. Batten will serve on the Board?s Audit, Risk Oversight and Finance Committees. The appointment is effective as of February 19, 2024, and brings the total number of Board members to 12.

Mr. Batten will also continue to serve as the non-executive Chair of the board of directors of Assured Guaranty (UK) Limited (AGUK), Assured Guaranty?s U.K. insurance subsidiary. For more than 25 years, Mr. Batten was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), retiring in 2017. He led a number of practices during his time at PwC, including Real Estate Restructuring, Insurance Restructuring and a Corporate Valuations practice.

He acted for the UK and Irish Governments in relation to the restructuring of the banks following the Global Financial Crisis, as the Provisional Liquidator of Independent Insurance, and as a non-executive Director of PwC?s Bermuda based global insurance captive. In addition to his board responsibilities at Assured Guaranty and AGUK, Mr. Batten is a non-executive director of other financial services and real estate companies, including Picton Property Income Ltd, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and Weatherby?s Bank Ltd, a UK domiciled Private Bank. He also serves as Chair of the Governing Body of Westminster School.