Do R&W Insurers Still Pay Claims? Following Up on Lowenstein’s 2020 Survey
What You Need To Know About Representation and Warranty Insurance
ESG is All The Rage, but How Does It Intersect with the D&O and RWI Insurance Markets?
Jeremy Levy on Recent RWI Challenges and Near-term Outlook
Best Practices for Negotiating the Right Reps & Warranties Insurance
Opportunities and Optimism: M&A Deal Trends — A Recap Discussion Around ACG Atlanta M&A South Panel
Maximizing RWI Recovery Claims: Don’t Be Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Reps & Warranties Insurance Claims: Getting to “Yes”
Reps & Warranties Insurance: Sealing The Deal
Six Things You Need to Know About Life Sciences M&A During and After COVID-19
The Importance Of Cybersecurity During A Merger & Acquisition Transaction
The use of representations and warranties insurance (RWI or R&W) has become increasingly mainstream. An estimated 75% of private equity transactions and 64% of larger strategic acquirers use it. Woodruff Sawyer’s R&W team...more
Joe Corsello, Associate General Counsel & Managing Director, Claims for Euclid Transactional, shares his insights on pivoting from litigation to reps and warranties insurance, opportunities for those seeking a career in the...more
In this episode of “Don’t Take No for an Answer,” host Eric Jesse is joined by Jeff Rubocki, senior managing director of the Private Equity practice at Risk Strategies, to predict what the rest of 2024 may hold from a reps...more
In this episode of Terra Firma: Conversations on Commercial Real Estate, hosts Stacey Tyler and Stephen Tanico of Lowenstein Sandler’s Real Estate practice are joined by Eric Jesse, a partner in the firm’s Insurance Recovery...more
In 2023, overall mergers & acquisitions (M&A) deal volume was much slower than in prior years; however, as expected, there was a surge in claims during this period. From mid-2020 through mid-2022, we saw a large uptick in...more
Despite the popularity of reps and warranties insurance (RWI), many common misconceptions about this insurance product still exist. For example, while it’s often believed that RWI is too expensive or unsuitable for a specific...more
In recent years, the use of representations and warranties insurance (RWI) in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions has experienced dramatic growth worldwide. Consequently, deal participants in Latin America are showing...more
Coverage exclusions are a key risk management tool for transactional liability insurers. But they can also be traps for the unwary. In the event of a claims dispute, the insurer will likely bear the burden of proving that an...more
As we emerge from the COVID pandemic and the risk environment for corporate America remains high, now is a good time to revisit a question critical to private equity firms and strategic buyers in the mergers and acquisitions...more
In this episode of The Proskauer Benefits Brief, David Teigman, partner in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group, Simon Sharpe, partner and member of our Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions groups and...more
After being squeezed out of the R&W insurance market in 2021, deals in the healthcare services sector have regained interest from insurers and are seeing lower rates and greater competition....more
With 2022 fully in the rearview mirror, we would like to highlight some trends we expect to see continuing into 2023. The economy continues to face tremendous uncertainty. According to the World Bank’s Global Economic...more
There’s been a breach in your mergers and acquisitions (M&A) agreement—you suspect the seller misrepresented something. If you had the foresight to purchase reps and warranties insurance, you can now file a claim to recover...more
Reps and warranties insurance (RWI) ensures the policyholder is covered for breach of contract for mergers and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Failures in diligence or fraud on the part of the seller can result in breaches of...more
In 2020, Lowenstein Sandler released a groundbreaking report, authored by Lynda A. Bennett and Eric Jesse of Lowenstein’s Insurance Recovery Group, based on results of a survey that sought to answer a key question about reps...more
In this Upside episode, Farella's Greg LeSaint and Erica Villanueva discuss how incorporating representation and warranty insurance into your acquisition from the buy-side or sell-side can have tremendous benefits in dealing...more
The use of Representation and Warranties Insurance (RWI or R&W) has become increasingly mainstream; it is utilized in an estimated 75% of private equity transactions and 64% of the time by larger strategic acquirers. Woodruff...more
Recently, Troutman Pepper Partner Jeremy I. Levy was interviewed by Armie Lee of The Deal. Topics discussed include: - A look back at the environment for representations and warranties insurance at the end of 2021 -How that...more
The RWI market is quick to respond to changing circumstances and the Russian invasion of Ukraine is no exception. Let’s take the opportunity to talk first about the impact on diligence, secondly the impact on exclusionary...more
SPAC lawsuits are increasing in frequency. There was a big jump in the number of SPAC-related cases from 2020 to 2021. Five new securities class actions were filed against SPACs in just the first two months of 2022. Several...more
- Representations and Warranties Insurance (RWI) policies have been prominent over the last decade, but there are few court cases regarding coverage disputes. But this type of litigation appears to be on the rise in the court...more
At Woodruff Sawyer, we believe it’s essential to keep our clients up to date on a relatively small and rapidly developing market for reps and warranties insurance. Thanks to feedback we’ve received on the volatility index,...more
We saw a lot of upheaval in the reps and warranties insurance (RWI) market in the last quarter of 2021. Pricing went up across the board, and many deals got considerably fewer quotes than earlier in 2021. Let’s look at why...more
Representations and warranties insurance (RWI) is as popular as ever today. With increased deal flow combined with buyers and sellers finding value in RWI, the market for RWI is operating at full capacity; insurers are...more
With reports of a continued increase in the volume of mergers and acquisitions—a growth of nearly 160% in just the first half of 2021 alone—and no signs of a slowdown, it remains important for companies and investors to...more