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
As a transactional liability brokerage, we place policies including reps and warranties insurance (RWI), tax liability policies, and contingent liability policies. We also oversee claims for these policies. As someone who...more
In part two of this two-part series, Matt Miller and Andrew Lloyd analyze represenmarket.tations and warranties insurance (RWI) in the health care M&A -2landscape. They discuss the process of finding and securing an...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
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
Join us for a lively 30-minute discussion where our head of transactional insurance and the head of our private equity practice discuss top trends in M&A and PE. We'll cover: - The rollercoaster of RWI pricing - The RWI...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
Today on “Don't Take No for an Answer,” co-hosts Lynda A. Bennett and Eric Jesse of the Insurance Recovery Group at Lowenstein Sandler discuss the upcoming publication of their second report on reps and warranties insurance...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
- 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
Cannabis operators and ancillary service providers face mounting losses and liabilities from theft, cyber-attacks, natural disasters, product recalls, text marketing, and employment wage and hour issues. In 2022, risk...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
Lynda, joined by Douglas Worth, SVP, Regional Claims Leader at Willis Towers Watson, and Eric Jesse, Partner in the Insurance Recovery Group, start off the new year taking a deep dive into the practical elements of the...more
As we head into the second half of the year, where deal flow is expected to be even more congested, R&W (representations and warranties) insurance may take more time, money and effort than you may remember from previous...more
Continuing the discussion about representations and warranties insurance (RWI) from last week’s episode, Lynda, joined by Eric Jesse, Partner in Lowenstein’s Insurance Recovery Group, and Emily Maier, Senior Vice President...more
I recently mediated a dispute involving a claims-made policy with a condition precedent to either side commencing litigation: mediation. Specifically, the policy stated the following: The Insurer and the Insured agree that...more
Hundreds of practitioners joined together — virtually — in the past month to attend two conferences concerning representations and warranties insurance (RWI), a product aimed at transferring the risk associated with M&A...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
Representation and warranty insurance has changed the M&A market. The popularity of reps and warranties (R&W) insurance—which provides indemnity to buyers for breaches stemming from seller misrepresentations in acquisition...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
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