How2Exit

OCTOBER 14, 2024

E248: Setting Yourself Up for Success: Essential Steps, Tips, and Strategies for a Profitable Exit - Watch Here About the Guest(s): Kip Wallen is a seasoned M&A attorney with over a decade of experience in live mergers and acquisitions deals, primarily within the lower middle market, involving transactions up to $50 million.

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What's Market

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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. With RWI, buyers and sellers are able to allocate some of the post-closing M&A indemnity risk to third party insurers.

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Cooley M&A

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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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What's Market

AUGUST 29, 2022

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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Mergers and Acquisitions M&A Mergers Insurance 52

What's Market

AUGUST 22, 2022

This article examines how buyers and sellers are negotiating indemnity baskets in private company M&A transactions, as shown in the American Bar Association's private target deal points studies. With RWI, buyers and sellers are able to allocate some of the post-closing M&A indemnity risk to third party insurers.

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Mergers and Acquisitions M&A Insurance Mergers 52

What's Market

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The scope and detail of these representations and warranties are often heavily negotiated and tailored to reflect both the nature of the target and its business, financial condition and operations, but also the relative negotiating strength of the buyer and seller.

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Mergers and Acquisitions M&A Negotiation Mergers 52

What's Market

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Buyers and rep and warranty insurers are focusing more aspects of their due diligence on virus-related matters. Transaction parties negotiated expanded or new representations to address the effect of Covid-19 on the target business, as well as the policies and protocols for dealing with those effects.

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