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Representation and Warranty Insurance for M&A Deals: Cooling Market and Emerging Trends

Cooley M&A

While representation and warranty (R&W) insurance continues to be used across a broad range of M&A transactions, its use has cooled as dealmakers navigate challenging market conditions. In current market conditions, underwriters increasingly are offering initial retention below 1% and as low as 0.5%

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How Merchant Banks Help Businesses Grow and Succeed

Razorpay

Merchant banks are a very important part of the financial ecosystem, since they support the largest chunk of businesses – the mid-sized ones. Merchant banking is a special branch of banking that provides financial services to medium to small-sized businesses. What is a Merchant Bank?

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

Cooley M&A

Over the last decade the use of R&W insurance in merger and acquisition transactions has grown exponentially. From 2008 to 2018, the total R&W policies bound per year in North America rose from 40 deals, providing $541 million of coverage to 1500+ R&W insurance transactions, providing aggregate coverage of $38.6 Advantages.

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Tech unicorns UK – complete guide to the billion-dollar club

Growth Business

Insurance Bio: Howden Group Holdings is the largest European insurance intermediary group in the world, managing premiums of more than £10bn. The group comprises of brokering firm Howden, underwriting agency DUAL, MGA and its data and analytics arm HX. 7 – Howden Group Holdings Value: $4-$4.5bn Founded: 1994 What do they do?