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Stand-Alone Indemnities

What's Market

In addition to the general indemnities, the parties to M&A agreements often negotiate separate “stand-alone” indemnities that cover specific topics outside the general indemnities, usually without reference to an underlying breach of the representations, warranties, or covenants.

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Indemnity Escrows

What's Market

The 2017, 2019, and 2021 ABA studies each show that indemnity caps and indemnity baskets were lower in reported deals where representations and warranty insurance (RWI) was referenced in the deal documents, as compared with transactions without any such reference.

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Periculum Advises Mi-Tech Tungsten Metals, LLC. in its Sale to Global Tungsten & Powders Corp, U.S. Affiliate of the Plansee Group

Periculum Capital

Periculum began formally working with Mi-Tech in December 2019 to find a buyer that could strengthen the Company’s global supply chain, realize significant strategic synergies and qualify to own Mi-Tech ’s portfolio of customer relationships that included controlled and classified federal government programs.

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Representations & Warranty Insurance

What's Market

The most recent three of these studies (2017, 2019 and 2021) have looked at representation and warranty insurance (“RWI”) in private company M&A transactions. The percentage of transactions expressly referencing RWI increased from 29% in the 2017 study, to 52% in the 2019 study, to 65% in the 2021 study.

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Use of Knowledge Qualifiers for Representations and Warranties

What's Market

Specifically, including constructive knowledge has steadily increased over the nine ABA studies— from 52% of reviewed deals in the 2005 ABA study to 81% in the most recent 2021 study (down slightly from 86% in the 2019 study). The parties must still negotiate the scope of the seller's knowledge.

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Separate Escrows for Purchase Price Adjustments

What's Market

Market Trends: What You Need to Know As shown in the American Bar Association's Private Target Mergers and Acquisitions Deal Point Studies: The use of separate escrows for purchase price adjustments has been increasing on a fairly steady basis since 2007 (with a slight dip in 2021 from a 2019 high).

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Representation & Warranty (R&W) Insurance – Current Market Trends

Cooley M&A

We are also seeing an increase in “no seller indemnity deals”, which Aon estimates to have increased from 12% to 26% of all R&W insurance deals from 2016 to 2018 and, if our experience this year is consistent with that of the broader market, we think those numbers will be even higher for 2019. Conclusion. Contributors. Jamie Leigh.