Navigating Reps and Warranties Insurance in 2024: Smooth Sailing or Rough Seas Ahead?
Do R&W Insurers Still Pay Claims? Following Up on Lowenstein’s 2020 Survey
What You Need To Know About Representation and Warranty Insurance
Jeremy Levy on Recent RWI Challenges and Near-term Outlook
Schlam Stone & Dolan Partner Jeffrey M. Eilender Discusses Whether Contractual Disclaimers Can Waive Fraud Claim
Reps & Warranties Insurance Claims: Getting to “Yes”
Reps & Warranties Insurance: Sealing The Deal
Lessons for Health, Beauty & Wellness Companies [Part 3]: When to Consider Acquiring a Distressed Company
Six Things You Need to Know About Life Sciences M&A During and After COVID-19
Nota Bene Episode 27: The Gangbuster State of Private Equity and Merger and Acquisition Cycles in the U.S. with Luca Salvi
Addressing Environmental Issues in Real Estate Development
Purchase Agreements – Interview with Stephen Gulotta, Managing Member, Mintz Levin's New York Office
There’s a tongue-in-cheek joke within the legal industry that transactional lawyers create the problems, and the litigators get paid to clean them up. It’s a cautionary reminder to transactional lawyers: if the dealmaking...more
Buyers and sellers that are parties to an M&A transaction should carefully consider whether the risks associated with tariffs that have already been imposed or that may be imposed in the future may significantly impact the...more
If you intend to sell your company or believe there may be another business or individual interested in acquiring you, it is important to prepare your business for sale or acquisition to make sure everything is in order. This...more
Negotiating and signing a Letter of Intent (LOI) is a key inflection point in the process of selling your business. Buyers and sellers both want the LOI to ensure a base level of understanding on certain key terms such as...more
We’ve recently received a handful of inquiries regarding the placement of sell-side reps and warranties insurance (RWI) policies. Given the relative rarity of these policies compared to their buy-side counterparts, we felt a...more
In the complex world of business transactions, particularly mergers and acquisitions (M&A), purchase price adjustments are a critical concept that help ensure fairness and accuracy in the final transaction price. Purchase...more
Privately held businesses are rarely bought or sold “as is.” Buyers of most businesses usually expect the sellers to make a comprehensive set of “representations” or “reps.” In other words, statements about the business that...more
As we close 2024, middle market M&A transactions, typically valued between $10 million and $500 million, have begun to show signs of finally rebounding from their peak in 2021. As deal activity continues to ramp up, here are...more
In part one of this two-part series, Matt Miller and Andrew Lloyd analyze representations and warranties insurance (RWI) in the health care M&A landscape. They discuss the benefits of RWI for buyers and sellers, policy...more
Representation & Warranty Insurance (“RWI”) is specialty insurance coverage purchased for M&A deals which provides third-party insurance coverage for certain breaches of the Seller’s representations and warranties in the...more
Parties to business acquisitions use indemnification clauses to provide security for harm that may result following the closing of the transaction. Indemnification obligations require one party to compensate the other for...more
Representations and warranties insurance (RWI) has become an increasingly common feature in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, serving as a risk management tool for both buyers and sellers. RWI facilitates...more
Delaware is well known as a favored jurisdiction for mergers and acquisition deals, and for good reason — the jurisdiction’s business-friendly legal environment offers numerous efficiencies and predictability. Attorneys and...more
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
The accelerated development of artificial intelligence (AI) has shown the transformative potential of the technology across industries, making it an integral part of strategic planning for market participants, from technology...more
M&A dealmakers have been on a wild ride: from the pandemic-fueled rout in 2020 to 2021’s record-breaking recovery to a steep decline in 2023, the global M&A market has offered a masterclass in volatility. While global M&A...more
As global markets continue to adapt to a new normal, a clear understanding of the structural nuances, risk considerations, and strategic objectives inherent in varying transaction structures enables investors to remain agile...more
Is your M&A target a manufacturing company with automated production, a consumer products business with online sales and marketing or an education company that creates content for students? The increasing use and development...more
It is no secret that a representations and warranties (R&W) insurer’s underwriting focus is informed by industry-specific risks and claims experience. For manufacturing businesses, aligning the buyer’s diligence plan and the...more
Explore the landscape of the M&A Market and its impact on RWI with Woodruff Sawyer’s Emily Maier and Yelena Dunaevsky in this video. They examine both the broader trends and finer nuances shaping the Reps & Warranties...more
In HControl Holdings v. Antin Infrastructure Partners, a Delaware court recently held that the buyer could terminate without closing its agreement to acquire a target company for $250 million. Due to a $215,000 ownership...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
As buyers seek acquisition opportunities worldwide, they often encounter sellers resistant to accepting meaningful (if any) liabilities for potential pre-closing exposures, causing buyers to look to the insurance market for...more
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations are playing an increasingly important role in M&A transactions. In any given deal, however, it can be challenging to assess ESG factors, to perform ESG due diligence,...more
Representations and Warranties Insurance (RWI) has increasingly become a tool employed by both Buyers and Sellers to shift away from the traditional indemnification model of escrows or other mechanisms that could tie up...more