Customers included most of the world's major insurance and reinsurance companies as well as government entities and global corporations.

[1] In the 1990s and early 2000s, the company grew through a series of mergers with Ellinger Heath Western, Greig Fester, and E.W.

[1] On 22 August 2008, Chicago-based Aon Corporation announced that it had agreed to acquire Benfield Group.

It had an international network of more than 50 offices in the US, UK, Continental Europe, Bermuda and Asia.

[1] Through its subsidiary, Benfield Corporate Risk, Benfield also operated in the primary insurance brokerage space, catering to the complex risk management and transfer needs of corporate entities in selected industries.