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
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
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
The past decade’s robust mergers and acquisitions volume sparked the rapid growth of representations and warranties (R&W) insurance. This coverage provides protection from losses due to a seller’s breach of representations in...more
In just about every way, the world turned upside down in 2020. Deals were no exception. Whether it was incorporating a PPP payoff or forgiveness into deal terms, drafting MAE, interim operating covenants and working capital...more
It requires time and effort on the part of policyholders, but claims under representation and warranties (R&W) insurance policies do, in fact, get paid. That was one of the top findings from a new survey report by national...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching effects to date, including economic uncertainty and widespread business interruptions. This environment may raise unique considerations for parties contemplating an M&A transaction....more
More and more buyers are using representation and warranty insurance (RWI) to supplement or replace indemnities from a seller in the sale of a business in Canada. While some of our clients, particularly private equity funds,...more
Do Reps and Warranties Insurers Pay Claims? Yes–With Caveats, New Survey Finds- During the last decade, intense deal activity spurred the growth of R&W insurance–an alternative risk-transfer mechanism to indemnify buyers...more
While life sciences M&A activity soared to a new high in 2019, the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic has led to a slow down in deal making activity. However, as the crisis in the U.S. subsides and the U.S. economy...more
Increasingly, M&A transactions are using representation and warranty insurance (RWI) to bridge the gap between a buyer’s desire for adequate recourse to recover damages arising out of breach of representations in the purchase...more
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a pandemic, prompting numerous public and private organizations and agencies to accelerate their contingency plans so as to...more
In the recent weeks our risk management team has identified a number of insurance-related issues relevant to clients dealing with the outbreak of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, known as COVID-19, that we felt...more